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Howard County Library System's Evening in the Stacks: Sparkle and Spurs held on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at the Charles E. Miller Branch. Celebrity Bartender Paul Skalny.
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.
The Johns Hopkins Film Fest posters arrived at the office today. This is about 1/3 of them.
When Bruce opened the paper we cracked up coz it looks like one of those books you hide something in, only on a massive scale.
The stacks of flat silkscreened sheets of paper have since been turned into desk calendars desk calendars. Do I hear a sigh? I think I do :)
5 Good things::
1: Fridays! 2: Spiced wine at the Christkindlmarket at the Daley Plaza 3: Accepting that everything cannot be perfect all of the time 4: Grandpa's good news 5: Janessa's good news... HOLY!
We are now also selling these amazing metal trunks individually in various sizes and colors. So come down and stack them up to your heart's content. They are a great deal...
For stacking, I tear my fabric instead of cutting for the stacking part because I want to work with the grain line. The first tear is along the center fold of the fabric and then I work with the two sides separately. I never combine repeats from the first side of the fabric with ones from the second side and this picture is a good example of why. The first side of the fabric had the motifs in a straight line with the grain, but on this second side you can see how much they're off. This happens sometimes even on the best of fabrics. While this wouldn't be good for many things, it's actually good for stacking because it assures that blocks made from the second side will be different from those made from the first side. I cut with the grain, so you can see how different the cuts will be from one end of the fabric to the other.
32 images stacked in Zerene.
An attempt to photograph a spider in its web, side on, with a good depth of field. To get reasonable focus across the image 32 shots were needed. Unfortunately the breeze moved the web slightly during the shooting making stacking the multiple images very difficult and loads of touching up was needed to get anywhere near an acceptable result.
I might try again if I can get a well lit spider indoors, otherwise I'm sure some other subject will grab my attention.
I'm going to do a border of Log Cabins using the fabrics from the blocks plus the hot pink centers. Right now, when I look at these, they look like very angry longhorns, however when the sides and bottom rows are on, I hope that longhorn look will go away :)
Everywhere you look in rural Iceland, you see these stacks. Some of them are meant as markers for backpackers for instance, but I got the feeling most were just built for fun.
Busy cutting 8" squares from my hand dyed stash, plus shot cottons. thinking ahead! HST's eventually!
Super rare. Only a few individuals of this species have been found, but, interestingly, this species has been found twice in Missouri, and once in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida. This one was sent to me by Mike Arduser and collected in Clark County, Missouri. Note the lovely flair of hairs around the end of the abdomen....very distinctive.
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i made lots
i got up at 5.30am whilst on holiday one day to go to the cove and stack. The peace and tranquility was immense.
i built a set of 18 stacks in perfect alignment across the cove. unfortunately 18 sacks in a single line don't photograph well. they looked bloody brilliant though. as you walked in and out of the alignment you either saw one or a mass of stacks.
inspired by the master bebalance www.flickr.com/photos/rocker/sets/72157602341391436/ i tried counterbalancing stones. it made for more delicately balanced stacks.
i am going to upload the rest of the photos later. there are far too many but feel i have to put them all up.
South Stack is famous as the location of one of Wales' most spectacular lighthouses, South Stack Lighthouse. It has a height of 41 metres (135 feet). It has a maximum area of 7 acres.
Until 1828 when an iron suspension bridge was built, the only means of crossing the deep water channel on to the island was in a basket which was suspended on a hemp cable. The suspension bridge was replaced in 1964, but by 1983 the bridge had to be closed to the public, due to safety reasons. A new aluminium bridge was built and the lighthouse was reopened for public visits in 1997. Thousands of people flock to the lighthouse every year, thanks to the continued public transport service from Holyhead's town centre.
There are over 400 stone steps down to the footbridge (and not, as local legend suggests, 365), and the descent and ascent provide an opportunity to see some of the 4,000 nesting birds that line the cliffs during the breeding season. The cliffs are part of the RSPB South Stack Cliffs bird reserve, based at Elin's Tower.
The Anglesey Coastal Path passes South Stack, as does the Cybi Circular Walk. The latter has long and short variants; the short walk is 4 miles long and takes around two hours to complete. Travelling from the Breakwater Country Park, other sites along the way are the North Stack Fog Signal station, Caer y Tŵr, Holyhead Mountain and Tŷ Mawr Hut Circles.