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Since Hogwarts is my home, staying home for Christmas seems to be not so bad ...
I always liked this time of the year, the snowy silence full of expectations, the soft tinking of bells, occasionally interrupted by singing armours or suddenly swooping snowballs.
Although there is still much homework to do, I'm really looking forward to one of our pleasurable Christmas traditions and the best sport ever : Base-jumping in the restricted section!
But first we have to get our portkey to Stonehenge to celebrate the Solstice and the Christmas Star in the Great Conjunction 🌠 - oh, what a night!
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Happy Solstice & Merry Christmas!
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Solving puzzles is a hobby, addiction or compulsiveness? This is not as easy as it seems the maze pass is just barely big enough for the BB to fall through and really easy to come back out LOL. It is a close up, the puzzle is right at 3 inch across. I thought it was too big so quartered the puzzle to a 1-1/2 inch square frame to make it macro.
Stitched view of the lovely village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England. A delightful place, the only problem is, as often in the UK, criminally high parking prices, and having to find the exact coins to pay for them.
I hope this panorama isn't confined to 800pixels, I thought I solved that problem months ago, I hope it's not happening anymore.
The rook (Corvus frugilegus) is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from Scandinavia and western Europe to eastern Siberia. It is a large, gregarious, black-feathered bird, distinguished from similar species by the whitish featherless area on the face. Rooks nest collectively in the tops of tall trees, often close to farms or villages, the groups of nests being known as rookeries.
Rooks are mainly resident birds, but the northernmost populations may move southwards to avoid the harshest winter conditions. The birds form flocks in winter, often in the company of other Corvus species or jackdaws. They return to their rookeries and breeding takes place in spring. They forage on arable land and pasture, probing the ground with their strong bills and feeding largely on grubs and soil-based invertebrates, but also consuming cereals and other plant material. Historically, farmers have accused the birds of damaging their crops, and have made efforts to drive them away or kill them. Like other corvids, they are intelligent birds with complex behavioural traits and an ability to solve simple problems.
"You did the right thing, yeah
When you went and looked my way
I know, I know what you wanna say
You wrote it all on your face
(On, on, your)
Just beam me up, beam me up, leave me, don't bring me down
You've been fighting from the gallows
The shadows just come on out
(But you know)
It's all good when it's all bad
Be hurting all day but it's all math
You're losing your brain
And falling right back
It's all good when it's all bad
Been looking all day but it's all math
Just solve the equation
Get it all back." - QUIÑ ♫
This shot was taken in November 2017 just inside the entrance to the desert of Wadi Rum…….
Quote Of The Day:
"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect." (James Madison)
Timmy’s biggest problem right now is getting enough cuddles. With this heat, I hardly ever see him except at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast and at 9:30 p.m. for dinner. If I’m lucky, like now, he hears me when I go out to the garden in the early evening. He comes out, still half-asleep, and climbs up his ladder. I have to go down two steps on the little staircase to the garden. Then our heads are at the same height, and we can relax and cuddle to our hearts’ content.
Happy Caturday 11.7.2026 "Solving our cat's problems"
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
World's first steam powered clock
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
In memory of Raymond Saunders who sadly passed away - November 24, 2024
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gastown-steam-clo...
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
Best experienced in full screen.
Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
Happy Slider Sunday - HSS
For inquiring minds that want to know:
I've seen this technique before and wondered how it was created, what software was used. A little research brought me to the linked site (among other sites) and I read the tutorial. I was surprised to find out that it was made with a very creative use of Photoshop. After reading the tutorial a couple of times I realized this was right up there with solving the Rubik's Cube by buying (OK now it's free on the internet) a copy of "How to Solve the Rubik's Cube." Well, I'm always up for a good challenge and so I was hooked!!!!! As it turned out, it was the most complicated thing I've done with PS but somehow rewarding going through the process and the final image got a "cool". I also realized how little I really know about the subtleties and power of PS. Not being able to leave well enough alone, I rotated the image to the diagonal and gave it a little wavy filter. (how could I resist) :)
With a little help from the below tutorial:
www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/photo-strips/
The first comment has the rest of the story.
“As if everybody here would know
Exactly what I was talking about
Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes”
I, for one, never could figure out what Paul Simon was talking about. Maybe it was snowflakes on the soles of her shoes? :-)
Pose: Ice cream solves everything vol 1
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Wisconsin Northern L2 spots tanks and plastic hoppers next to the faded C&NW station sign in Bloomer, Wisconsin with an ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2 for power.
The other night for my photo of the Ferris Wheel, I mentioned frustrations I was having with getting the IR remote shutter release working. I was determined to fix it or ditch it....and fix it I did. In celebration we had a Mexican dinner down at Redcliffe where I shot this scene of the quite low light on the Jetty across the road. It was only 6.00pm, we got away early. Winter!
Todays catastrophic news is another mass murder in the US. I don't know what the answer or the motivation to this is.
I can't imagine the pain and heartache suffered by the relatives and friends of those involved. I don't even think that gun control will solve it. What has gone wrong in society these days, causing this to happen.
It will be a very sad Xmas for many people in Connecticut.
Today I didn't do any photos, so I pushed this very favourite shot of Rumblemumbles forward.
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Rumblemumbles knows how to dress for the occasion. I know you think she doesn't normally dress like this, and you are right, Her normal gloves are only wrist length.
I struggled to find something that was both wildly colourful and old or tatty, so this is the throw-back to the old days, when life was apparently wonderful.
No internet !
The roaring 20s was the euphoric period between WWI and the great depression.
Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in architecture as well as in daily life. At the same time, amusement, fun and lightness were cultivated in jazz and dancing, in defiance of the horrors of World War I, which remained present in people's minds. The period is also often called "The Jazz Age".
by Wikipedia
View "Well Hello Mr President" On Black
Wildly Colourful Theme
Jim at Mere Mailbox
Mystery Inc. taking a break from solving mysteries so they can be normal teenagers for once and have their own Halloween fun.
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Imaged remotely from Siding Spring Observatory using iTelescope T32 (17 inch Corrected Dall-Kirkam, FLI Proline 16803 CCD, Planewave Ascension 200HR mount).
Total imaging time: 9 minutes through LRGB filters.
FOV: 40 x 40 arcminutes.
A wee bit tricky to process this as the Red-filter image wasn't properly focused.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
IC443 - Jellyfish Nebula
Telescope: Orion EON80ED
Camera: Atik 314L+
Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha, 3nm SII, 3nm OIII
Exposure time: 18x20min (Ha), 8x20min (SII), 8x20min (OIII) : Total: 11 hrs 20 min
Flickr Explore: March 12, 2016
I saw the photo at zwaik's photostream and immediately saw the possiblities (and shamelessly downloaded it for my own nefarious purposes; I hope he doesn't mind).
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The Heart Nebula, Sh2-190 or IC 1805 is an emission nebula located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It lies at around 7500 light years distant. I added another 3hrs of Ha, 7thAug2018 and 3.5hrs OIII, 24thAug2018 to last years data to give a total integration time of 10.5hrs.
NEQ6 PRO
TSAPO130Q @f/5
Canon 70D modified
Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm OIII and UHC clip in filters
Guided using SX Lodestar x2
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.