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Hotels near Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
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Best Paris Hotels with a View of the Eiffel Tower
Choosing a hotel strategically positioned for a breathtaking view of the Eiffel Tower enhances the overall stay, turning it into a romantic escapade or a dreamy retreat. Whether sipping coffee on a balcony overlooking the Seine River or enjoying a glass of wine as the Tower lights up in the evening, the experience is nothing short of mesmerizing.
Tubes are useful for the little things.
I’m still preoccupied with Hot Toys hands. I love those tiny little freckles. No offense, but I have to put a mental block on the fact that they belong to a guy named Barney.
It took forever for the cherries to arrive. They were worth it:
When I saw that necklace, I thought of those lips and decided they needed to meet each other:
This may be old news, but this old hinge plate is perfectly suited for building walls with an angle. The white SNOT brick can slide stepless between those two positions but the fixed position at the end of the hinge plate also works to align the wall sections.
These are most of the poles left standing, useful nowadays only as bird perches.
Seen at Kalochori, Thessaloniki, at a protected natural park area. View Large On Black
Texture credit to Skeletalmess www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/ . Thanks!
'Useful photography' is the name of the magazine. It showcases photography without artistic pretensions, it's only meant to be practical.
Here you see the modern target posters anyone can order by Internet for shooting practice: terrorists, bank robbers, all sorts of attackers in a cliché outfit.
One of the editors of the magazine, Frank Schallmaier, collected them. They were on exhibit, last fall in The Hague, and when the visitors mingled with them, this happened...
www.youcantbeserious.com.au/blog/2011/10/21/really-useful...
Let's all buy useful gifts this christmas!!!
Victims of flooding...I assume it's because of the dams on the Wisconsin, but the habitat is far from deserted.
Now withdrawn, Olympian 1611 awaits stripping of useful parts and then donation to the local community. Seen here at Tullos in the care of the other withdrawn buses which are just out of sight, 16863, 22707/9 and the accident damaged JET 10527.
Useful for getting around those narrow alleyways but this one looks as if it’s been in a few scrapes ...
This is the last photo taken by my Pentax before it gave up the ghost, coughed and spluttered. It was a useful engine.
My brain seems to be empty. Empty of anything useful and it certainly does not contain a story. So in the hope that one might materialise I've started to type just to see what might happen.
I watched "There Will be Blood" last night and thought it was quite interesting and thought provoking. It seemed to me to be a study in the search for wealth and how, perhaps to people on the outside, someone's search for wealth will eventually reach a line and when that line is crossed then they will have earnt enough. When you view it from afar it is easy to think "if I had that much wealth then that would be enough for me and I would be happy and stop seeking more." Except when it is you seeking that wealth the line keeps moving, like you are trying to reach the horizon but of course you can never get there.
Daniel Day-Lewis' character in the film seemed to be chasing that horizon, always wanting more and never being happy with what he has. On the one hand wanting more can be seen as positive ambition, but on the other it may be seen as trying to fill an aching hole. The consumer society and the myth that happiness is found in needing and wanting more. Nirvana in shopping.
But is it just consumerism that is the problem? I go by the adage - be happy with what you have - but still it's ok to be ambitious? Perhaps not ambitious for a bigger car/house/ipod/iphone/camera but ambitious for better experiences, more knowledge, happier times.
I believe human beings have reached the top of the food chain because of our need to improve on what we do, how we are, how we live. A ceaseless restlessness to strive to do things better, more efficiently, to always improve on things. An urge to fight against creeping boredom by stimulating yourself to progress.
But I wonder whether these inner drives are not discerning and can be directed and applied to anything. When these urges are pointed towards possessions and then you start to try and improve yourself through the things that you buy. There must be a fundamental disconnect between that inner drive to improve and then satiating that desire by buying the latest gadget. The relief is only fleeting and then you are back to where you were. Needing to improve and yet all you have is a new whizzy phone or whatever. "Perhaps the next latest model will be the one that finally makes me enlightened? When can I get that one? I am already bored of this new one!"
At least if you learn a new skill, take a nice walk, make or create something then you as a person have developed a little more with something that you will keep with you forever. That new gadget simply satiates the desire to have one and once you do the hunger comes back anew so once again you want something new too (is there an Owl in here?). One step forward, one step back. "Why do I never seem to get closer to my destination?"
I noticed the Beech tree that I gathered these leaves from about a week ago. It grows on a steep slope next to an aqueduct crossing a ravine. Being a small tree its leaves were brighter and fresher and the colours more stark.
I wobbled down the slope and used a perfect hooked stick, I found nearby, to hold down a branch whilst I collected some leaves. I couldn't use just any tree so it was necessary to perform such a precarious maneouvre. It wasn't long before my concentration was instantly snapped from the branch I was grasping, to a sudden slip down the slippery slope. But fortunately after coming to stop at the bottom I realised I had enough leaves for my project and so I left my bottom, the tree and the treacherous slope to their own devices. Although, of course, my bottom followed on behind.
I knew that this morning there would be a frost and the hope of blue skies and sunshine. So I stitched together the leaves late on in the day yesterday so it would be ready to photograph at dawn amongst the sparkling crystals that Jack Frost had left behind.
I left it on the ground overnight and it frosted over but melted before I could capture it still frozen. Maybe that'll be a challenge for another day, frosted sculptures at dawn, approriate now I can look forward to winter.
So that's it, frost, sunshine and autumn beech leaves along with the contents of my mind over the last half an hour. Seems there was a little more in there that I thought! But then I can ramble on demand. As anyone who has been on the receiving end of any one of my one-way conversations can testify!
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A tobacco barn in decline in Charlotte County, Virginia. 2018 update: this barn is barely standing, but it's still there.
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Brazos Bend has several big, dead trees. In life and death, these trees served generations of ducks, ibis, herons, anhingas, woodpeckers, and many other species. This morning two whistling ducks made this tree their lookout tower. I was thinking B&W as I shot this. Hope it works. Brazos Bend State Park in SE Texas - 9/2022
2023 Weekly Challenge 47/52 ~ Useful
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Our Hoverfly was first described by that indefatigable Swedo-Dutch industrialist and entomologist Baron Charles de Geer (1720-1798). He amassed his fortune through his iron-works industry and was thought to be the richest man in the Sweden of his day. So he had lots of money to pursue his hobby of entomology and to carry on his feud about nomenclature with great Carolus Linnaeus as well. Enormously productive, he published extensively on the taxonomy of insects. He gave this Hoverfly the name Musca balteata in 1776. 'Balteata' is from the Latin and means something like 'girdled' or 'belted'.
The history of entomology continued of course, and classifications became more precise. In 1917 the scientific name by which we know Marmalade Hoverfly was established by two Japanese entomologists, Shônen Matsumura (1872-1960) and Tusmanitsu Adachi (1901-1981) in 1917. Matsumura worked on the Great Northern Island of Japan, Hokkaido, as an agricultural entomologist. No doubt he would have been delighted that Beautiful Marmalade was also very useful. Its larvae feed on plant pests such as aphids... This Hoverlady herself seems to be after the pollen of Dwarf Morning Glory. Soon there'll be her larval offspring to keep the plants of the Botanical Garden free of aphid pests.
Yes! It was a very bright morning!
Useful Beauty / Castelo Mendo, Portugal.
Una hermosa pieza de metal para sujetar una contraventana.
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A beautiful piece of metal to retain a window shutter.
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I haven't been able to find anything out about the curious name of this town. If anyone knows anything, I'd be happy to hear about it.
UPDATE: janwalkerimages rocks. See her information on the town and its name origin below.
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"You have been useful, my apprentice. You were my willing tool, but those days are at an end."
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The Force Unleashed is awesome, enough said ;)
After a while, a new scene of mine. Nothing special, though.