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Soon it will become to chilly for these hibiscus plants to remain outdoors, so I'm enjoying them fully while they are still here.
"Crystal Ball"
Raindrop, you look amazing,
hanging there almighty praising, refracting light so emblazing, a water ball for crystal gazing.
original poetry
by: Sean Walsh.
After weeks of drought conditions, here in Bristol, it's rained at last.
I grabbed my camera and took this macro of a nice-looking raindrop hanging from an unopened fuchsia flower from my hanging basket.
I am so happy we have some rain now, especially for the wildlife in my garden and, of course, elsewhere.
Without refreshing rain, where would we be?
Love and Peace ✌️
Everyone ❤️
I'm in the process of creating another orchid presentation, and I needed an image that shows the size of typical orchid seeds. So, I went out to my bog garden and collected an unopened orchid seed capsule, brought it back inside and split it open on a black surface. The penny was placed to give it some scale.
Leave unsaid, unspoken
Eyes wide shut, unopened
You and me always between the lines
I'm still so behind with catching up and I'm so sorry for that but school is taking over my life and I really hate that. The weather is so great and I honestly wish I would take more photos. Unfornately my pro account expires in 5 days :(
Next week my french exchage student will be here but I think that's definitely gonna be great :)
Hope you're having a lovely weekend!
I have a very active hungry spider in my small garden this year. It has found this Actaea simplex [syn: Cimicifuga simplex] plant with an unopened, still curled, flower spike; just perfect for a large cobweb which it created this morning...
Some of the plant's common names are Bugbane, Baneberry, Cohosh bugbane, Black snakeroot...
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OH MY GOODNESS, EXPLORE #20?? wow thank you all so much :D
Doors are the bridges to opportunities. Catching up on my 52 weeks!
So this is my first levitation shot! I am pretty happy with how it turned out, tell me what you guys think!
I need to get out and shoot more, I've been so busy. I'm so glad that I got to set aside homework and just focus on photography for once. I feel like if you love something enough, you would always find time for it.
ps. a frog jumped on me today and landed on my head. I was so freaked out i jumped around and screamed like a crazy person! :P
The Chive plants produce a large amount of nectar and are a favourite with bees, but they are repulsive to many insects in general due to their sulphur compounds. They are ‘herbs’ and are used in cooking, the green stalks and unopened immature flower buds are diced and used as an ingredient in many dishes hot and cold, also the chive plant has insect repelling properties that can be used in gardens as a pest control.
The American White Pelicans have officially arrived in Eastern Nebraska. Happy we are on their annual migration path. Five of them were in a tight flying formation. Springtime is like an unopened package. You never know from day to day what you might find.
Pink azalea blooms. Some minimal editing / cropping. Background is a light overcast sky.
My intent was to capture the existing blooms on this lone branch, and more particularly the three flowers in the foreground that were about to bloom as well as the associated greenery.
I went back and forth trying to decide if I wanted a bit more focus on the open blooms behind or the closed blooms and leaves / greenery in front, and ultimately opted for the latter as the unopened blooms represent the beauty of anticipation and patience.
Found this beauty of an unopened iris in our front garden today, before we headed out to the landscape centre. My initial thoughts were that it reminded me of a tricorn hat (My Hat, It Has Three Corners) or the Starfleet symbol.
By the time the torrential downpour stopped, the storm had moved across Lake Ontario, over Rochester. I was hoping to catch bigger, closer bolts but had to settle for these little ones along the horizon.Until the lighting lit up the sky, it was absolutely black out.
After playing with this shot I was going to upload an SOOC, but my granddaughter insisted I use this poster-like one.
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Silver-studded Blue / plebejus argus. Lindrick Common, South Yorkshire. 20/06/20.
'STILL ... AT LAST.'
At the end of an absorbing day watching and trying to photograph these highly charged little butterflies, my wish eventually came true. Their energy levels dropped noticeably, in line with the temperature by late afternoon. They started to perch for longer intervals.
This pristine male flew to a patch of Rose-bay Willow Herb and perched on a spike of unopened flowers. Perfect ... and by approaching very carefully I was able to get close and make some images. Afterwards, I retreated just as carefully and left it enjoying the sun.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Mariefred, Sweden
The name "chrysanthemum" is derived from the Greek words chrysos (gold) and anthemon (flower).
Chrysanthemums are native to Asia and northeastern Europe. Most species originate from East Asia and the center of diversity is in China.
Chrysanthemums were first cultivated in China as a flowering herb as far back as the 15th century BC. Over 500 cultivars had been recorded by the year 1630. The plant is renowned as one of the Four Gentlemen in Chinese and East Asian art. The plant is particularly significant during the Double Ninth Festival. The flower may have been brought to Japan in the eighth century AD, and the Emperor adopted the flower as his official seal. The "Festival of Happiness" in Japan celebrates the flower.
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The two unopened books are Vingt Ans Après
(Twenty Years After) by Alexandre Dumas,
bought from a bouquiniste while on my first visit to Paris in 2003.
Vingt Ans Après was first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
Originally published: August 1845
No publishing date in books.
The open book:
A Dog of Flanders
by Ouida (Maria Louise Rame)
Written in 1872
Donohue Brothers was an American book publishing company based in Chicago, founded in 1900 but ended circa 1901.
No publishing date in book.
I probably bought this at a local (Chicago)
antique/resale shop.
And if you’re still reading, this is one my own textures, made from some of my sheet music.
I picked these as unopened buds yesterday and this morning under the skylight in the kitchen they were a bouquet.
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81/365 -Around the house - Day 81
The unopened flower buds have an almost sinister look to them, but the opened flowers are so beautiful!
This my collection of unopened boxed Lego Star Wars sets. I also have at least 1 more of each of these sets either built or torn down for parts in my house. I also have quite a few of the older sets not pictures that have been opened and built.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
A small Luft '46 project, but not an OOB kit but rather a massive kit conversion which comes close to scratch-building: the rather weird Messerschmitt 334, a true 'paper plane'.
Some background
The Me 334 (the project number's origins are not clear, the designation has never been officially accepted by the RLM) is one of the few plane designs that was intended as a conversion from a jet/rocket-powered plane into a piston-engine design, namely the Me 163 Komet.
Due to the early unavailability of the Walter rocket engines for the Me 163 in 1942/43, the Me 334 was derived as an alternative. Dr. Lippisch, the Me 163' designer, modified this aircraft to accept a Daimler Benz DB 605 12-cylinder piston engine. The wings were taken from the Me 163. They were mounted mid-fuselage and swept back at a 23.4 degree angle. The main landing gear retracted inwards and the front gear retracted to the rear - a revolutionary design for its time. The DB 605 would drive a pusher propeller through an extension shaft, alle the way through the fuselage, and the vertical stabilizer was re-located under the fuselage as a protection for the propeller on the ground.
Further development was abandoned when the Walter engines finally became operational and available, and Lippisch designed the P.20 as another evolutionary step of the basic design, but this time with a jet engine.
The Me 334 was never built, and its performance can only be guessed. Sources consider the Me equivalent or even slightly superior to the contemporary Me 109G.
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 7.0 m
Wing span: 9.3 m
Height: 3.72 m
Wing area: 17.3 m²
Aspect ratio: 5.0
Weight: 2.800–3.000 kg
Performance: slightly better than a Me 109G
Engine: 1 Daimler-Benz DB 605 with 1.475 hp
Armament: Two MG 131 13mm machine guns on top of the engine cowl.
The kit and its assembly
Information and details are scarce, so I decided to take the same approach Dr. Lippisch did: take a Me 163, add a piston engine and see where it goes.
The basis for my kit is a Me 163 from Academy - a very good model kit, which nor only comes with a tractor for the model but also offers two fuselage versions: the single seated interceptor and the two-seated trainer version. The latter would be perfect for my conversion, because I could use the complete rear cockpit and its interior!
From this Me 163S, more or less the complete fuselage and the wings were taken, but donations from several other kits were used to "create" something that would resemble a Me 334 (all 1:72 scale):
- Engine from a Matchbox Me 410
- Landing gear from a Hasegawa J7W Shinden
- Main wheels from a Hasegawa XF8U
- Main landing gear covers from an Italieri Fw 190D
- Canopy from an Airfix P-38
- Propeller blades from a Matchbox Fw 190A
- Air intake and jet fan parts from a Kovozavody Su-25
- Exhaust pipes from an Italierei He 111
Many other details like the front grille or the landing gear covers were built from scratch.
Lots of putty was necessary to melt the engine and the fuselage into "one", as well as the P-38 canopy, which is actually a bit oversized for the tiny aircraft.
The propeller was built from scratch - it is the tip of a supersonic drop tank, a wire shaft sits in a plastic tube in the plane's tail. The propeller blades come from a Matchbox Fw 190 - I thought that these characteristic, spade-like blades would add to the "German" look.
All the landing gear wells had to be cut open manually, and filled with some details. This was easier than expected, just the front wheel bay was a bit difficult to install since it would be placed on the intersection of fuselage and engine.
Since I am not certain what would be inside of the radiator intake in the Me 334's front, I decided to put a mesh inside and add a small fan which would be barely visible - a nice effect.
I used the original cockpit from the Me 163 Academy kit, just added safety belts and a radio set behind the seat. Since fitting the canopy was rather complicated and messy, I left it unopened and without a pilot.
Painting
As a true "Whif" plane, total design freedom! But as usual with Luft '46 models, I tried to stay true to contemporary Luftwaffe camouflage and marking designs. The Me 334 would have been ready for trials in late 1943, so I thought that a machine from a fictional "Erprobungskommando 334" (or "EK 334" for short, a temporary testing unit, where a new type would be introduced to real life service, a common Luftwaffe practice at that time) would be fine.
Since all-grey fighters were only about to appear at that time, I settled on conservative colours:
* Wing surfaces in RLM 71/02 (Dunkelgrün/Grau, actually Humbrol #116 and Testors Testors #2071; it is a colour scheme that was common on Bf 109’s, after the original RLM 70/71 turned out to be much too dark an low in contrast)
* Lower surfaces RLM 65 (Lichtblau, Humbrol #65)
* Fuselage surface RLM 75/02 (Humbrol #106 Ocean Grey with additional mottles of Humbrol #140 Gull Grey)
* All interior surfaces including the landing gear were painted in RLM 66 (Schwarzgrau).
Markings come from the donation kit Academy Me 163 and from the scrap box. Among the extras are squadron batches and insignia for the technical officer’s plane (the chevron symbol with the dot instead of a number) from TL Decals, plus some ‘kill’ markings for planes and balloons on the tai fin, also from a TL Decals sheet.
I sat for a good while watching this, as yet unopened lotus blossom, dance and sway on the breeze with the grace and dignity of a prima ballerina until she finally stood silent as if waiting for a roar of applause…I fired the shot and proclaimed, “Bravissimo!” and gave her, her due as well as a loving…thank you!
Purple Toothwort / lathraea clandestina. Hilton, Derbyshire. 09/04/21.
'COLOUR CONTRASTS.'
Just a fragment view of the numerous carpets of Purple Toothwort on show at Hilton Gravel Pits NR.
Before my visit to find these parasitic plants for the first time, I wondered how easy they would be to locate. Once there, in the right place, I found out - EASY!
Although the flowers hugged the woodland floor, their striking violet/purple colours really popped amid the greenery of prolific mosses. Despite the dreary afternoon weather and poor light, there really was no chance I could have missed them :-)