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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
~Billy Sunday
It is minus 15 degrees Celsius and the sun is just rising behind me. I am located beside the St Clair River at Sarnia, Ontario, Canada and across the river from me is Port Huron, Michigan, USA. It is so cold that hoar frost crystals have grown on the metal railing bars and the river is yielding up a dense mist. The Port Huron lighthouse is catching the light from the sun.
From Wiki: The streaked flycatcher is 22 cm (8.7 in) long, weighs 43 g (1.5 oz) and has a strong black bill. The head is brown with a concealed yellow crown patch, white supercilium and dusky eye mask. The upperparts are brown with darker brown streaks on the back, rufous and white edges on the wings, and wide chestnut edges on the rump and tail. The underparts are yellowish-white streaked with brown. Sexes are similar.
It is very similar in appearance to the less widespread sulphur-bellied flycatcher. The streaked flycatcher has a heavier bill, lighter yellow belly, pink basal half of the lower mandible and creamy (not white) superciliary.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This species breeds from eastern Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago south to Bolivia and Argentina. The southern subspecies M. m. solitarius migrates to Venezuela and the Guianas from March to September during the austral winter. It is found at the edges of forests and cocoa plantations. Common across its wide range, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
The bird In this images is trying the rid the fruit off its pod. it worked and the seed was eaten shortly after. The Dacnis tree, proved a very productive birding spot yielding 5 lifers in the penultimate day of the trip.
The second of three CN C731 coal loads of the day winds along the narrow shelf carved out of the unstable slope on the north, and then south banks of the Thompson River. Looking at the track arrangements, and terrain in the Black Canyon of the Thompson River, and it is hard to decide which railroad picked the 'right' side for their route.
The Canadian Pacific chose the south shore, from Kamloops all the way through to Lytton where the Thompson River joins the mighty Fraser. This choice allowed the CPR to build on and along the natural plateaus near Walhachin, Ashcroft, and Toketic. Reaching those plateaus from river level at the west end of Kamloops Lake meant that some prolonged uphill grades were necessary, as well as subsequent downhill sections to return to river level further west. The obvious boon for the CPR from this routing was that they required no major river crossings other than the Nicola at Spences Bridge, and over the Fraser at Cisco. For a pioneering railroad through barely settled country, avoiding this kind of major infrastructure cost was paramount. Yet here at Black Canyon, the CPR still had to contend with some sections of unstable, slide prone hillside, as well as a fairly substantial tunnel.
The Canadian Northern's choice was really not a choice at all. The CPR's right of way on the south shore of the Thompson occupied in most places the only viable alignments for a railroad. This meant blasting 16 tunnels over 120 miles compared to the CPR's 10, as well as having to bridge the Thompson and Fraser Rivers a total of of 9 times. The only upside to this costly and time consuming route to build was that it followed a much more river level elevation, yielding negligeable grades. Here at the Black Canyon, the CN line traces below a constantly eroding hillside for half a mile, before diving into a 1,366 ft long curved tunnel, and then over the Thompson River on the 248 ft long through truss and deck plate girder bridge at bottom left of the image above.
One can argue the pros and cons of each railroads routing, but none can deny how spectacular the view is.
Pagoda Flowers - certainly 'in captivity' and also usually 'in the wild' - don't produce seeds but propagate through their roots and their suckers. So fruit-yielding pollination doesn't occur much. Still they have flowers and you might say that they altruistically produce nutrients for Butterflies and other insects.
Here Pagoda is being visited by a Brown Pansy, Junonia hedonia, almost in camouflage colors. It wasn't until I pointed it out that Olymp came into play.
A group of fossil hunters prepare to go hunting for fossils along Charmouth Beach. This beach forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It is one of the most famous of the Jurassic locations in the world, yielding plenty of fossils for the thousands that come collecting each year.
GWR 43029 leads 2C24 11.27 Exeter St Davids - Penzance at Tallicks Crossing near Penstraze between Truro and Redruth on 23 November 2021. 43041 is at the rear of the train. Following withdrawal from service with GWR 43029 was sold to Romic Group and after yielding spare parts was scrapped at EMR Kingsbury in Februray 2025. Pole shot.
1747 - 1749 war Johann Georg Hitzelsberger der Bauleiter an diesem vom Kloster in Kaisheim beauftragten Kirchenneubau.
Er erstellte einen für die Gemeindegröße recht aufwändigen Bau mit einer dem Chor vorgelagerten Pendentivflachkuppel und einer flachen Stichkappentonne im Schiff.
Nach der Weihe wurde die weitere Ausstattung vorgenommen. So malte Anton Enderle 1750 die Fresken. Die Altäre, sämtliche Figuren und die Kanzel stammen von Ignaz Wilhelm und Plazidius Verhelst von 1758-60. Die Altarblätter stammen aus dem Umkreis von Johann Georg Bergmüller.
Das Bauwerk steht kurz vor der Renovierung der Decke. Bei der Untersuchung der Schäden konnte zum Glück für die Gemeinde eine befürchtete Senkung der Kirche in Richtung der Mauer zur Hauptstraße ausgeschlossen werden. Die Schäden konzentrieren sich auf nachgebendes Gebälk im Dachstock an der die Decke aufgehängt ist. Mit der großen Lupe kann man schadhafte Stellen in der Flachkuppel sowie dem Schiffsgewölbe erkennen.
1747 - 1749 Johann Georg Hitzelsberger was the construction manager of this new church building commissioned by the monastery in Kaisheim.
For a church the size of the congregation makes it a very elaborate building with a flat dome in front of the choir and a flat lunette barrel in the nave.
After the consecration, the further furnishing was carried out. Anton Enderle painted the frescos in 1750. The altars, all figures and the pulpit were created by Ignaz Wilhelm and Plazidius Verhelst from 1758-60. The altar panels were made by the circle of Johann Georg Bergmüller.
The building is about to have its ceiling renovated. Fortunately for the parish, the examination of the damage ruled out the feared subsidence of the church in the direction of the wall towards the main road. The damage is concentrated on yielding beams in the attic from which the ceiling is suspended. With the large magnifying glass one can see damaged areas in the flat dome and the nave vault.
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There is always something going on downtown and I found that a day walking the streets and yielding nothing can change in the blink of eye. So much of what we do in placing ourselves in the right place at the right time. Click!
The "super" full moon and the shadow of the earth reflect in Mono Lake's calm water after sunset on November 13, 2016.
I'll be leading a workshop in Mono Basin to benefit the Mono Lake Committee June 2-4, 2017. Enrollment is through their Seminars page:
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Shot @ Mukkombu Dam , Trichy , Tamil Nadu , India.
Mukkombu Dam is also called as Upper anaicut :)
Eketorp is an Iron Age fort, located in southeastern Öland, Sweden, and extensively reconstructed and enlarged in the Middle Ages. Throughout the ages the fortification has served a variety of somewhat differing uses: from defensive ringfort, to medieval safe haven and thence a cavalry garrison. In the 20th century it was further reconstructed to become a heavily visited tourist site and a location for re-enactment of medieval battles. Eketorp is the only one of the 19 known prehistoric fortifications on Öland that has been completely excavated, yielding a total of over 24,000 individual artifacts. The entirety of southern Öland has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Eketorp fortification is often referred to as Eketorp Castle.(Wikipedia)
"The 1961 Buick Invicta is a full-size automobile produced by Buick from 1959 to 1963. The Invicta was a continuation of the Buick Century concept that mated the standard size Buick LeSabre (pre-1959, Buick Special) body with Buick's larger 401 cubic inch Nailhead V8 engine, yielding what was referred to as "the banker's hot rod." The name was derived from Latin and signified 'unconquerable, invincible, unbeatable, unvanquished' according to Buick Motor Division sales training materials." Wikipedia
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“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu
You'll have to decide what she is yielding to.....
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Model: Olivia being brilliant again in an 1910 home
Foray into macro photography. As the landscape wans't yielding much that morning i triet to get a bit closer...
After a light overnight snowfall, the cloudy skies moved out, yielding a cold but nice morning with sunshine and a layer of snow on the ground across Wheeling country. Eastbound train 228 with a pair of 7000's breaks the mid-morning silence as they reach the top of the hill east of Creston at a location known to the local Wheeling foamers as Douglas. The schedule of this train and its counterpart, 227 has recently changed to accommodate Norfolk Southern's operations in Bellevue. Both trains now run in daylight for a majority of their trip, operating in and out of Bellevue during the night.
Vanessa ist eine im Jahr 1965 gezüchtete Weißweinsorte und Tafeltraubensorte mit kernlosen Beeren. Sie ist eine interspezifische Neuzüchtung zwischen Seneca und N.Y. 45910 (Bath x Interlaken Seedless).[1]
In der Neuzüchtung sind Gene von Vitis labrusca und Vitis vinifera enthalten. Die Kreuzung der Hybride erfolgte im Jahre 1965 in Kanada durch die beiden Züchter K. Helen Fisher und O. A. Bradt. Die bis zu minus 25 °Celsius frostbeständige Rebe wird überwiegend als Tafeltraube genutzt. Sie besitzt rosafarbene mittelgroße Beeren. Inzwischen wird sie nicht nur in Kanada und im Nordosten der USA, sondern auch in Frankreich und Deutschland angebaut. Vanessa ist eine mittelfrüh fruchtende und reichtragende Rebsorte besonders für den Hausgarten. Die Beeren sind mittelgroß mit festem Fruchtfleisch und knackigem Biss. Der Geschmack ist fruchtig-aromatisch mit einer ausgeprägten Süße. Sie gilt als eine der besten kernlosen Sorten. Die Pflanzen werden auf reblausresistender Unterlage veredelt und sind pilzfest. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
Vanessa is a white wine grape variety and table grape variety with seedless berries that was bred in 1965. It is an interspecific hybrid between Seneca and N.Y. 45910 (Bath x Interlaken Seedless).[1]
The new variety contains genes from Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed in 1965 in Canada by the two breeders K. Helen Fisher and O. A. Bradt. The vine, which is frost-resistant down to minus 25 °Celsius, is mainly used as a table grape. It has pink, medium-sized berries. It is now grown not only in Canada and the northeastern United States, but also in France and Germany. Vanessa is a medium-early fruiting and high-yielding grape variety, particularly suitable for home gardens. The berries are medium-sized with firm flesh and a crisp bite. The taste is fruity and aromatic with a pronounced sweetness. It is considered one of the best seedless varieties. The plants are grafted onto phylloxera-resistant rootstock and are fungus-resistant. (Source: Wikipedia)
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A male Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) perched in the open yielding superb looks. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
Reasons
“Inside the eggshell of her mind,
she could live without being unkind.
We may wonder about her,
but there is nothing left to know.
Already home,
she had no reason to leave.
She had the impulse to fly.
She had no reason to live.
Tangled, her dress,
as she fell down the face
of the building like a tear.
Don’t you get tired
of asking your fear
what the sound was
that her bones made,
on yielding to the still ground.
She had a reason to dream.
She had the impulse to fly.
Already home.”
—George Angel
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Lyme Regis, Dorset UK
Lyme Regis boasts breathtaking scenery and a special mystique, making it a sparkling resort for all seasons. Its historic Cobb and harbour are iconic features, set against moody blue cliffs yielding fossilised evidence of life on earth millions of years ago. An ancient town featured in the Domesday Book, Lyme Regis is home to a number of historical landmarks and educational attractions. Between Lyme Regis and Charmouth is the Jurassic Coast where the various strata still lie on top of each other. One is more eroded than the other and offers more chances of finding. The best place to look is between these two places, where parts of dinosaurs and sea creatures are still found. The route along the entire Jurassic Coast is 155 kilometers long and very suitable for walking. It's hard to imagine, but the climate on the Jurassic Coast was once comparable to that of the Bahamas in the Caribbean. Or at least with southern Spain. Now it is known as the South West of England. Where dinosaurs once lived, both on land and in the sea.
Time-sliced rendering of last nights sunset in Bremen, Germany. The image is composed of 200 equitemporal exposures with dt=30s (30min before - 70min after sunset), yielding 20 pix high slices in the final picture.
The image shows the Kraftwerk Bremen-Hastedt operated by swb Erzeugung AG & Co. KG.
Rupi fiammeggianti
Flaming Cliff
- L'area è famosa per aver portato alle prime scoperte di veri e propri nidi completi con uova di dinosauro fossilizzate
- The area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs.
44°08'19"N 103°43'43"E
1929 Mercedes SSK boat tailed speedster by Murphy with an appropriate color for living in the Wine Country of Sonoma, Ca. The only one of the total of 37 SSKs to be bodied in the US, at the Walter M Murphy coachbuilding site in Pasadena, CA. It now lives at the Keller collection......at a winery.......
In the years before the first world war raged over Europe, Mercedes had established itself as a leading racing car manufacturer; in 1914 a Mercedes won the French Grand Prix and a year later a similar car took a victory in the Indy 500. Despite the grim financial situation in Germany after the war, Mercedes was keen to take up racing once again. To cut costs the competition cars of the early 1920s shared many parts with the contemporary road cars and with the earlier racers. During the war the Stuttgart based company had learned valuable lessons in the then novel idea of forced induction thanks to the production of airplane engines. By 1922 the Roots-Type Supercharger had become standard equipment on Mercedes' racing cars.
With the arrival of the talented Austrian designer Ferdinand Porsche the successes returned starting with a win in the 1924 Targa Florio. Porsche's first clean sheet design was built to the two-litre Grand Prix regulations and featured a twin-cam eight cylinder engine. It was quickly left obsolete as the rules changed at the end of the 1925 season. The young Austrian's next task was to design a new supercharged engine for a new range of luxury models launched late in 1924. Dubbed the 400 and 630, the two new machines were equipped with six cylinder engines of 4 and 6.3 litre displacement respectively. Both engines were fitted with an engageable Supercharger, which only worked when the acceleration pedal was fully depressed. This was a compromise to have the power available when really needed and still minimize the stress on the engine.
Within a year, Porsche had reworked the 630 into a racing car with a similar engine, but with a shorter chassis. After the new chassis dimensions, the new racer was named K for Kurz or Short. After the merger with Benz in 1926, a completely new chassis was developed for the potent engine. It was significantly lower than the original K chassis to increase the handling characteristics of the heavy machine. Again for obvious reasons this new car was known as the S for Sport. To further improve the performance the engine displacement was increased to 6.7 litres, yielding 225 bhp with the 'Elephant' Supercharger engaged and enough torque to move a house. The six cylinder engine now also sported a cylinder block constructed of silumin; a very light and strong alloy of aluminium and silicon.
For the 1928 season an even larger version of the engine was developed by increasing the bore to a staggering 150 mm, resulting in a displacement of 7069 cc. This model received the nameplate ss and like its predecessors was available as a complete cycle fender racing car or as a rolling chassis for coachbuilders to body. Caracciola continued his Nürburgring form by winning the German Grand Prix for sports cars on the legendary track with the new ss. Later in the year a shorter version was introduced especially for the popular hillclimb races; the ssK. Both cars were campaigned in the following years with considerable success in a variety of events and against machinery ranging from the nimble Alfa Romeos to the massive Bentleys. With a special lightweight version of the ssK, Caracciola scored the White Elephants' biggest success by winning the 1931 Mille Miglia. He was the first non-Italian to win the 1000 mile road race and did so in a record-breaking pace of 101.1 km/h.
The advent of a new generation of lighter sports cars left the heavy ssK obsolete by 1930. Caracciola' s success in 1931 was very much down to his exceptional skill and the special ssKL he used. Due to economic crisis, Mercedes-Benz was forced to retire from racing at the end of 1931. At that point the German manufacturer had produced an estimated 33 ssKs and only a handful of ssKLs. Due to accidents in period a large number of cars were destroyed or scrapped and only very few have survived unscathed. Many of the salvaged parts have later been used for reconstruction and there are believed to be over a 100 ssKs in existence today, which claim to be built around original bits. One of the all time greats!
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From Wiki: The streaked flycatcher is 22 cm (8.7 in) long, weighs 43 g (1.5 oz) and has a strong black bill. The head is brown with a concealed yellow crown patch, white supercilium and dusky eye mask. The upperparts are brown with darker brown streaks on the back, rufous and white edges on the wings, and wide chestnut edges on the rump and tail. The underparts are yellowish-white streaked with brown. Sexes are similar.
It is very similar in appearance to the less widespread sulphur-bellied flycatcher. The streaked flycatcher has a heavier bill, lighter yellow belly, pink basal half of the lower mandible and creamy (not white) superciliary.
Distribution and habitat[edit]
This species breeds from eastern Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago south to Bolivia and Argentina. The southern subspecies M. m. solitarius migrates to Venezuela and the Guianas from March to September during the austral winter. It is found at the edges of forests and cocoa plantations. Common across its wide range, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
The bird In this images is trying the rid the fruit off its pod. it worked and the seed was eaten shortly after. The Dacnis tree, proved a very productive birding spot yielding 5 lifers in the penultimate day of the trip.
seen at the carpark at Lindis Pass. South Island, NZ. The mid day sun was too bright yielding this high contrast image. :(
Kaldalónsjökull is a glacial tongue or an icefall down from Drangajökull, the only ice cap in the Westfjords of Iceland. Like most glacial tongues in Iceland, it is receding. The extent of Kaldalónsjökull has been measured yearly since 1933 by the nearby farmer Indriði Aðalsteinsson and his father, yielding valuable information about climate and glaciology.
The wind was lifting up the clouds of steam from the valley that the storm earlier had caused, while the last rays of the setting sun colored the hat of the nearby peak. At the same time the junipers, located on the lake shores, were waiting still submerged for spring to free them up from the dead grip of the thick and heavy snow.
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p.s. The remaining of the ice submerged into the lake and the junipers trapped under the water were solid enough to withstand normal human weight without yielding. The cracking sounds of slow melting ice and the bubbles popping-up on the surface from time to time reminded me not to force my luck too much and go any further.
Not sure what I was thinking this day. I drove past a nice curve just south of here, complete with frosted trees, and thought to myself, “Wow, this would look good,” and then simply kept on driving and shot here instead.
Despite costing $35 in gas and yielding next to zero good photos, I guess it was worth it just to see something with a caboose.
The happenstance result of diddling with dials in experimental, exploratory, heuristic play. One click of the mouse and a whole new avenue opened up. Pano-Sabotaged bicycles then got a whole new treatment here.
Since this particular technique always ends up with a central figure that acts as an organizing "magnet' or "attractor", I've embarked on a parallel series to accompany what I'm doing with layers and veils. Every 3 or 4 of those images that I post will be interpolated with one of these "Strange Attractor" images.
Strange attractors, if I've got it right, are those things in mathematics and in physics that "pull" things toward a resolution or "organized" point. Also known as "chreodes", forces of organization that pull events to a certain point. Another term for this is "entelechy". The more we repeat things the easier it is to resolve into that pattern. The more powerful a charge there is to things, the stronger the chreode's power becomes. The stronger the chreode, the more definite the pattern and the more likely it is to be repeated. This might be described as a "habit".
"Habit", as Rupert Sheldrake describes it, as opposed to mechanism, is closer to the way the universe works rather than perfectly repeating supposedly fixed, immutable laws. Patterns repeat and are reinforced by habit and repetition and yet are subject to unforeseen influences and "input". In this way the universe could be said to be "learning" as new factors and forces can influence the pull of attractors and chreodes, yielding variations and creation.
Or one could simply look at these images as abstraction and derive what one wishes from that. There is no "right way". All views are valuable.
Han Shan is an infamous "mad" Zen Monk who lived in seclusion in the mists of "Cold Mountain". He become visible only to those who were worthy enough to find him. Gary Snyder speaks of him in his series of 24 "Cold Mountain Poems" from "Rip Rap, & Cold Mountain Poems" ( 1958 ).
Image created April 2017.
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Doesn't this image make you think of cracks in the glaze? A mismatch between the clay and glaze creates the unduplicated crazing. Perhaps this is the best possible outcome in nature that the mismatch between tension and yielding can lead to.
At least this year. I've noted all summer the dearth of butterflies, having seen no more than a handful. A few Mourning Cloaks which may have appeared too early before the lengthy snow season ended last spring; a couple of Monarchs in patches of milkweed where they normally swarm; and I don't recall seeing a single Swallowtail. Odd and unsettling. So I was pleased to find this perfect Fritillary flittering about. Few things are more pleasing than a flittering Fritillary. The question remained whether this was an Aphrodite or Atlantis species, the differences almost impossible to see. I always go with Aphrodite for personal reasons...;-)
In any event, there was something about the one and only image I got that seemed to encourage playing with processing, so I did and enjoyed it a great deal, each click yielding, to my eye and mind, an interesting result. It's interesting how some images lend themselves to tinkering while others don't tolerate it at all. A few variations are shown in comments below. There were many, many more. Culling was the hardest part. For my "purist" friends, the original is also shown.
The wind was lifting up the clouds of steam from the valley that the storm earlier had caused, while the last rays of the setting sun colored the hat of the nearby peak. At the same time the junipers, located on the lake shores, were waiting still submerged for spring to free them up from the dead grip of the thick and heavy snow.
= = =
p.s. The remaining of the ice submerged into the lake and the junipers trapped under the water were solid enough to withstand normal human weight without yielding. The cracking sounds of slow melting ice and the bubbles popping-up on the surface from time to time reminded me not to force my luck too much and go any further.
Colours of Torren - The secluded Torren Lochan with the impressive backdrop of Bidean nam Bian in very early autumn with just the faintest hint of the autumn colours that are yet to come.
The unexpected stillness was a real bonus yielding some super reflections in the water of the lochan.
Glencoe, Highland Scotland
Explore #4 09/03/2023
Materans were tough and self-sufficient. They had their own rituals and songs, their own demons and dialect. Many of their traditions developed as ways of preventing waste. Using shared ovens, they produced a unique horn-shaped bread that was leavened and baked slowly, yielding large pores that helped it stay fresh for a week. Rainwater was captured by a complex network of stone basins and underground ceramic pipes. Resourceful as the Materans were, however, their life style increasingly lagged behind that of the rest of the world. The better-off citizens of Matera began departing for the Piano—a more recently settled, flatter section of the hilltop—and the townspeople who remained in the Sassi were almost exclusively poor. In the caves, plumbing, electricity, and telephones were practically nonexistent. And until the nineteen-thirties you couldn’t take a wagon drawn by a donkey into the Sassi, only a hand-pulled cart.
After constructing our igloo on Panorama Ridge, Aaron and I headed east to explore the ridge a little more. As the sun set the sky exploded with brilliant colors, yielding silhouette shots that could not be passed up.
Hope you are all enjoying the weekend!
A jemeni Sokotra-szigetcsoport régóta a rejtélyek földje.
Az évszázadok során az utazók bizarr történetekkel tértek vissza az Indiai-óceán szigeteiről – sárkányvért és uborkát adó fákról, tömjénerdőről és a ködben magasodó csúcsokról endemikus fajokról. / The Socotra Archipelago in Yemen has long been a land of mystery.
Over the centuries travellers returned from the Indian Ocean isles with bizarre tales - of trees yielding dragon's blood and cucumbers, forest of frankincense, and towering pinnacles in the mist and and endemic species.
In that some of the captive Beta users apparently cannot see comment photos, I apologize that you may be unable to view my self-indulgence, but may very well find alternate application for the title. For those who can, you will see a progression of textures, clicks, and slides (which surely could have gone on forever) yielding this series of my own lion "who waits in the shadows" and proving the old adage that there is more than one way to skin a cat. The original, of course, is the last in the comments. Actually, I think I prefer the second in comments, but decided to post them as they developed. I continue to be amazed at what can appear by the simplest processing methodologies.
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And a very Happy Thanksgiving to those indulging...
As mentioned earlier, the Elite of Europe were not the only users of the French Lalique House of glass, produced Car Mascots. I have seen them on Packards, as here, Duesenbergs, a Pierce Arrow, a duPont and I think a Lincoln. This one had the light hooked up that lit the statue from below. Amazing to see in the dark. If the wild colors on the front of the radiator shell are too distracting, they could be cropped out yielding a wider, more horizontal image, and focusing more attention on Chrysis, something she would probably appreciate.
1 “And he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, 2 in the middle of its street. On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him; 4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. 5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.
7 “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”