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The Cart & Horses (c.1880), birthplace of Iron Maiden.
Closed for destruction/renovation until 2021.
LR3863 © Joe O'Malley 2020
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A COMPULSIVE DRAWER. I would declare war on every blank area left on notebooks, desks, chalk-boards and school walls. My teachers never appreciated this, but I did win recognition among the other kids. But I was independent and pretty much a loner. I rarely communicated verbally, but I never failed to communicate by using my favourite language: images.
Luckily for me, it was my grandparents who practically raised me, instilling in me all the values I retain to this day. But even though my grandparents offered material and emotional support, I felt abandoned. It was a pain that was muted and sometimes battered into submission, but it invariably came to surface. Plus I sensed that there was something else, a much more disturbing truth that lay at the core of the adult world. Being much too young to identify it, it remained a frustrated inarticulate feeling. But there was something clearly evident in my drawings that expressed those feelings. My talent for drawing, my attention to detail, and above all, my grotesque sense of humor were obvious in the drawings.
By the age of eight, whatever I had lodged in the back of my mind came forward in a blurry approximation in art. It was art that rescued me. Many of the drawings had an underlying dark tone. The drawings gave my incoherent inner world some form of expression and substance, however crudely rendered. Grown-ups had a profound effect on my artistic development, but not in a way they would have approved. I began to observe and to judge people, making evaluations about their nature and characters. This, too, found its way in my drawings. One could see from the progression of drawings a groping and developing maturity. It was a discovery and odyssey of self.
A teacher observed one of my drawings, and obviously dismayed, he asked: “What is the matter Victor?”
I answered: “What is the matter with everybody else?”
A conscious awareness of the adult world came into sharper focus: my overall impression of adults was that they were bogus liars and hypocrites, saying not what they thought, but rather what they believed would serve some particular purpose, some hidden agenda. Everybody came armed with two faces. It seemed to me that the world thrived on bullshit, hypocrisy and lies. I noted a desperate whoring after status, an irrational and pathetic desire to “beat the Jones” followed up by saccharine sentimentality by mealy-mouthed charlatans—and all of it showcased to the people they themselves loathed. Lies, backstabbing, deception, two-faces, malice and hypocrisy was the currency of exchange in the adult world. And so I took a profound disliking to most people I came across. I could sense the spiritual emptiness and viciousness within them. I wanted to like and admire people but I rarely came across anyone who was worthy of it. The only noted exceptions were my grandparents.
I HAD TURNED SIXTEEN JUST A FEW MONTHS before the holidays. Christmas brought distant relatives and immediate family together at the Pross household. For me, people were bad enough on their own but it became worse when they assembled together under the same roof. It was on such occasions that fully demonstrated the insanity and phoniness of these people. I would scan the large living room absorbing the adults sitting on the couches and chairs, each one looking anxious and distant. They were tipsy on day-long benders of Bloody Caesars, making efforts to appear jovial. There was a constant display of smiley backslapping and “Merry Christmases” by people who maligned one another the moment backs were turned. There was an unvarying spectacle of petty bickering over trivia and the sudden surfacing of years-long resentments best forgotten. All the forms of human flaws and ugliness to be found in the world---a world which insists on being imperfect—were on display before the eyes of the juvenile artist.
To lighten the mood, somebody put a dance song on. I watched with keen interest as glasses were overturned by dancing feet and the coffee table was moved out of the way to make room. A frenzy of stimulation bubbled in the room and everyone’s voice rose imperceptibly in pitch. As far as I was concerned, it was a circus.
Each relative represented an unsavory social stereotype or archetype of one kind or another. They were caricatures. From the town’s busy body gossip-monger tyrant--to the dour spinster forever spouting on about “God’s wrath”--to the town’s fast-talking used car salesman who dressed like a big city pimp---to every other stereotype imaginable. It was all there. This was no less true when it came to Uncle Bernard, better known as “Bernie.” Sitting near the Christmas tree, I was observing him closely. He was the jet-set wannabe playboy type. He sported a dyed perm that looked as if had come straight off a Styrofoam head from 1973. Assuming himself a lady-killer, he actually had all the charm of a toupee made of straw dipped in black ink. With each attempt at a pickup he was invariably shot down. “Lesbian!” he would bellow at women who rejected him.
Sitting next to Bernie was my mother, Terry. She was immersed in conversation, laughing with a forced hilarity, her drink spilling over. There was something that troubled me about my mother. She was a woman who was so utterly self-absorbed, forever preoccupied with what others thought. My mother’s sense of personal value was crucially dependent on the image of herself as a glamorous beauty. At the age of thirty-eight, she was wont to ask for reassurances of her looks. “Do you think I have nice legs? I use to be a Go-Go dance, you know?” and “When was the last time you saw a woman as gorgeous as me—and at my age?” With each passing year she began to perceive every wrinkle on her face as a metaphysical menace. Taking aging as a threat to her identity, she plunged into a series of sexual relationships with men fifteen years her junior demanding fresh admiration to assuage her hollowness.
My mother’s constant need for validation annoyed me. I was nevertheless fascinated with human behavior. What I perceived in my mother was a definite narcissism, only I didn’t have the word for it at the age of sixteen. Spurred by mother’s conceit, I decided to try an experiment. I played upon her vanity by offering her a lavish compliment, just to see her reaction. My motive wasn’t flattery for flattery’s sake, it was a psychological experiment.
I tapped my mother on the shoulder, interrupting her conversation.
“Mom?”
My mother turned to me, clearly annoyed, her expression a fusion of wonder and irritation.
“Victor dear, can’t you see I’m talking to this nice gentleman?”
“But mom, I need to tell you something.”
“Yes, yes, what is it?”
“I just wanted to say that…you look just like Marilyn Monroe.”
My mother took a deep intake of breathe. She clapped her hands in appreciation and snuggled her darling son into her arms. “Did you hear that?” she demanded of the guests. The room fell to a hushed silence. “What is it, Terry?” asked a guest. “My boy said I look like Marilyn Monroe. That’s my boy! Oh, he knows a good looking chick when he sees one!” My mother then let out an exuberant laugh, which itself was enough to draw attention. After a few more brandy-laced eggnogs, my mother became more of an embarrassment. She made damn well sure to tell new arrivals at the party what her son had said about her. It was a compliment that was warmly recalled by her for years to come. I had always regretted my causal flattery.
I appreciated the art of caricature more so than ever before. I enjoyed the spectacle of observing the reaction of anyone I nailed in a drawing. When people observed a grotesque drawing I had rendered of them—in dead-on accuracy---they would dissolve in self-consciousness. This had a clinical kind of fascination to me. Although one can be disconcerted at witnessing an open incision, I got some amazing glimpses of their guts. What came out of it was a deeply ingrained self-doubt. I knew my art had the power to reach people. “You are a sick guy, Pross,” said one of my displeased subjects. “How is it that I’m sick,” I responded, amazed by this sudden psychological evaluation. “The drawing portrays how you are—not me.”
Observing my mania for drawing, my grandfather decided to have a heart-to-heart chat with me. He entered my room as I sat at my desk, which was littered with sketchpads of drawings and half-ass watercolors.
Grandfather picked up a sketch pad flipping through it. “You have a real talent there, my boy,” he said. A firm hand rested on my shoulder. “It would be a shame if that went to waste”
I smiled and lowered my head.
“There are a lot of people who always dump on me for drawing, granddaddy.”
He smiled. “When it comes to insults, consider the source---and also try to consider what you think may be their motivation.”
My grandfather put an encouraging arm around me, playfully mussing up my hair.
He pulled up a nearby chair and sat down next to me.
“Now listen to me,” he said with a pinch of gravity, “you have a talent, son—a very evident and rare talent, but you can’t expect it to do all the work for you. You have to hone and develop that talent. If you want to be an artist, it takes practice, practice, practice. It is about hard work. It’s not enough to have talent alone. You need to have a hunger. You understand?”
I smiled. “I need to be a hungry artist?”
“I’m serious, son.”
“I know. So am I”
“Good. That’s right, a hungry artist.”
“I am. It’s like a compulsion. I feel so good when I’m drawing. It lifts me up. I need to express what I have going on inside of me. I suppose that is a hunger.”
I paused for a moment. My grandfather looked at me, his clear blue eyes beaming. His smile conveyed immense admiration…and hope. “I love you, grandson.”
I couldn’t express in words the feeling that I felt so abundantly. The love and admiration I felt for this man was great, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell him so for some reason. And so I simply smiled and look downward, hoping that this motion expressed what should have said with words.
Not everyone responded with agitation to the drawings of this teenage caricature artist. Sam Ferguson, the owner of the diner I frequented at the time, was blessed with a robust sense of humor. As he observed one of my renderings, he laughed with his whole body, his heavy-set frame shook like a bowl of Jell-O resting on the clothes dryer in final spin. “You are a crazy son of a bitch!” Gus hollowed. “How do you think of this stuff?” In the drawing, I had Gus lurched over a hot stove stirring the day’s soup special with beads of sweat dripping into the pot. In the background, one can see an unsuspecting customer slurping the broth, bellowing, ‘Gus, I love the extra flavor you added!’
“Come here, my boy,” Gus said, sliding a hamburger and fries over to me. “Here’s your payment for a job well done.”
“You’re paying me for that drawing…by feeding me?”
Gus looked astonished that I was astonished. “Of course! A man should be paid for his work. That drawing is hanging on my wall, and it gives me a great deal of pleasure.”
“It does.”
“You are very talented. Hey, I want to frame it and hang it up on my office wall. How much do you want for it?”
“You just paid me,” I answered, biting into the hamburger.
“No, not that, that’s a token payment, I’m talking about really paying you. That is a work of art we’re talking about!”
“I don’t know…”
“Here,” Gus said, taking my hand and slipping a hundred dollar bill into it.
“Hey man, are you serious—a hundred bucks!”
“Too little?”
“No, this is cool. Thanks Gus!”
“One day you are going to be a famous artist. People will be paying you a lot more than a measly hundred bucks. Hey, don’t think that I’m cheating you…I’m not a rich guy.”
“Come on, Gus, I know that. This is so cool, man. If only my grandfather could see this.”
I realized that I could temper my art with light-hearted humor, the gentle good wit that my grandfather imparted in me—along with the acerbic wit characteristic of Barry McConnell. It was here that this artist punk learned that caricature has both a dark and light face to it. I also learned that the caricatures I drew, and the people who inspired them, were not confined to the community where I lived. They circled the globe. It was to the wider culture that my focus turned. I had so much to learn and so much to express.
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**above photo is of my mother--Terry, my oldest brother--Robert, and Kevin (with his arm around me).
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Plants for the throat
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___: In infusions and under medical supervision, all the parts of this plant have properties to strengthen the heart, increase the strength of the cardiac contractions and to fight angina pectoris.
___: The infusion of its flowers and also its fruit are very effective for the treatment of palpitations, hypertension and other nervous cardio circulatory ailments.
Plants for the arteries
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____: In mexico, and many other parts of the world, infusions of ____ and their young stems are used for bronchial colds and respiratory ailments. The oil from its seeds is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, as well as in vitamin E, A, and B. Therefore, it is particularly indicated for reducing the cholesterol levels in the blood, as well as for diabetes, kidneys and skin diseases.
Plants for the veins
___: A decoction of ____ nuts or wood is indicated to fight varicose veins, hemorrhoids and the disorders of menopause, using it in decoctions. In sitz baths it also alleviates urination disorders, pertaining to the prostate syndrome, cystitis or urinary incontinence. Likewise, it can be highly advisable for cases of hemorrhoids.
____: The oil of this plant is recommended for oily skin and for cases of acne. A decoction of the bark of the young branches and the leaves is used as a medicine in the case of heavy legs, varicose veins, phlebitis, in tisanes, compresses, hip baths and friction massages.
Plants for the respiratory system
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____: Infusions of the dried leaves and flowers, used in tisanes give results in the cases of voice loss, acute bronchitis, bronco-pneumonia, asthma, and emphysema. ____ is also very helpful when stopping smoking, since it cleans the bronchial tubes of secretions, encouraging their elimination.
Plants for the digestive system
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____: Infusions of its leaves and flowered tops have properties to calm pain, they are invigorating and aphrodisiacs. It is recommended in cases of dyspepsia, intestinal wind, digestive spasms and colic, gastric atonia, hepatitis and physical exhaustion.
Plants for the stomach
____: The juice from this plants leaves heals peptic ulcers. Poultices of the leaves heal skin ulcers. It also improves acne.
____: The whole plant in infusions, mouth rinses and cleansing's help digestion increasing the gastric juices, it fights bad breath, it expulses intestinal parasites and calms menstrual pains.
Plants for the intestine
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____: The leaves and fruit, in infusions, irrigations, gargles, sitz baths and compresses reduce inflammation of the skin and the mucus. It heals digestive disorders, diarrhea, colitis and other ailments of the female genital system.
Plants for the anus and the rectum
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Plants for the male sexual organ
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____: This plant is normally presented in pharmaceutical preparations, it invigorates without exciting and without creating dependence increasing the energy production in the cells, therefore it increases sexual capacity and spermatozoid production, invigorating the organism in general.
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____: It fights obesity and cellulite. Its algae have the property of removing the appetite and it is a gentle laxative.
Plants for the locomotive system
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____: In infusions, essences, baths, frictions massages, fomentations and compresses it has invigorating properties for exhaustion, kidney colic, and rheumatism.
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Yellow & Green - The raucous crows mob this pair of Great-horned Owls every evening.
On this particular evening, they chased one owl of the pair into a low valley oak right in front of me. The evening light was perfect and I really liked the color contrast the orange lichen and green foliage provided.
The R3 and RF 200-800 combination is growing on me, especially for owls. The unlikely combination of a slow aperture zoom and low megapixel full frame body surprisingly produces clean files with great color accuracy and details!
IG: @sswildlife
Species: Great-horned Owl (Bubo virginianus)
Location: California, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R3 + RF 200-800mm
Settings: 1/100s, ISO: 1600, f9 @800mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter
Kong Weapons Systems presents the Accuracy/Advanced Combat Project-Rifle.
The extended/hightened rails house an advanced visual component to increase accuracy tremendously.
After only being used during competitions, this version utilizes a rail system, and a combat UBR 2.0 Stock.
Credit to Shockwave for stock pieces and Lucky for the mag.
Finally done :D!!!
Kerala Mural Art
Kerala mural paintings are the frescos depicting mythology and legends, which are drawn on the walls of temples and churches in South India, principally in Kerala.
Kerala holds the second place, with a large collection of archeologically important mural sites in India. Evolved as a compliment to her unique architectural style, these wall paintings are characterized by their liner accuracy, the adherence to color symbolism elaborate ornamentations and sensitive portrayal of emotions.
The tradition of painting on walls began in Kerala with the pre-historic rock paintings found in the Anjanad valley of Idukki district. Archaeologists presume that these paintings belong to different periods from upper Paleolithic period to early historic period. Rock engravings dating to the Mesolithic period have also been discovered in two regions of Kerala, at Edakkal in Wayanad and at Perimkadavila in Thiruvanathapuram district. The oldest murals in Kerala were discovered in the rock cut cave temple of Thiruvandikkara, which is now in the Kanyakumari district of Tamilnadu
(I feel that I should point out that this isn't actually the brewery to those of you with a penchant for technical accuracy)
Vince Lombardi has been famously quoted to say that "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." At that rate I'm not sure Bruno will ever improve his catching accuracy for Shreddies. But at least the practice makes him happy.
A little too little light for this shot. I'll have to try it again when the lighting is better. And yes, the Shreddie did bounce off his chest hair because opening your mouth and looking at it does not mean it will fall in your gullet.
My verse handwritten by me: Amos 9-5. They were at Great Lakes Christian College today!
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The 15,000-mile journey will directly reach 90 cities in 44 states during the course of six months. Bible Across America is currently making stops at churches, universities, retail stores, American landmarks and special events. More than 31,000 people are being invited to contribute a verse to complete an entirely handwritten Bible -- America's NIV.
H.Bestimt & Co Ltd, Feather Merchants, Plumage House.
Former feather merchants shop (1960-1994). Judging by the position and architecture it looks like it was a pub prior to that.
Beautiful Victorian stucco clashes with hideous 1970's-80's stone cladding.
LR3187
What else is there to say but F'tang Whoop!
Animal Vegetable Mineral Man: Based on no version in particular. Just a load of parts perched precariously on each other.
General Immortus: This feels like the most Extra figure I've made in a while.
Mister Nobody: Specifically his DC Streaming/Show version. Lots of paint apps here and there. I actually quite like the result.
The Brain is the Brain, and Mallah has less clothes but more accuracy, Though this one's got more of a Che thing going on.
That's all for now, lemme know what you think, eh.
Taken from the top of the number 24 bus. I was feeling a little nostalgic when I took this and loving the buzz of this amazing city
A self made clock.with a accuracy round the 15 minutes,
made from birch and clock from Ali express.
Thanks for the visit have a nice weekend
was gibt es sonst noch dazu zu zu sagen.
Actually, the folding rules is a piece of art, the literal meaning is folding ruler, the other meaning we are the reference, the benchmark, the normal others are compared to.
This pistol is made for accuracy, reliability, and ease of use. The magazine holds 10 rounds of 7.62x25mm, the rear sights are adjustable.
CTBC bank is also implementing finger vein scanning and facial recognition at its automatic teller machines (ATM), which would allow customers to withdraw money without having to use a bank card or PIN.
The finger vein technique was pioneered by the Japanese firm Hitachi Ltd and is based on the unique pattern of veins inside a finger. Only a living finger is accepted by the scanner, which is believed to make vein recognition a more secure technology than fingerprint scanning.
The finger vein sensor has a false match rate of 0.01 percent, and its accuracy in measuring the blood flow of a user for identity authentication is unaffected by variations in age and physical condition, the bank said, citing findings by US-based International Biometric Group.
I've struggled to discern whether Batman has black or dark blue costume details in Rebirth. The original concept art at the very beginning of Rebirth looks MUCH more blue than black, and his many comic appearances since seem to alternate his apparent coloration. You might say, well then just take a look at official physical merchandise, but even that differs! The upcoming DC Essentials 6.75' action figure line has him in dark blue (and the fig's designed by Jason Fabok), but it's predescessor toyline of DC Icons had him in black. My personal preference for Bat's color is a very dark blue, as I think it's a nice contrast from his N52 costume and a good callback to his Post-Crisis classic costume.
I was browsing for New 52 back issues at my local CBS and saw a really nifty knockoff Blackest Night Batman whose design was unfortunately lifted from a customizer who I can't quite name off the top of my head. BrothersFigure maybe? Anyway, I was really surprised to see that the fig had dark blue/dark bley dual-molded legs! When I got home, I spent literally 45 minutes scrubbing off the leg printing with a shredded pencil eraser to see if it would do the trick for my preferred Rebirth Batman. I decided to pair it with a Sheng Yuan N52 Batman torso to get that nice Bat-symbol outline, for added accuracy. What do you think?
For the month of December I've decided I'm going to count down my 31 best Milky Way shots of the year, each day posting a different shot counting down what I think is my best/most favorite shot of 2016. I'll try and provide the story behind the shot as well the technical details regarding how it was taken and edited.
So to start the countdown I figured I'd start with my first Milky Way shot of the year. After having spent all winter reading and learning as much as I could about tracking and editing techniques using my iOptron Skytracker mount I was excited to put it to use shooting the Milky Way. It was early March and still very cold, but I decided to head up to Rockport Reservoir to get some shooting in. The reservoir was still mostly frozen over and it was still pretty damn cold at night. That night was also the first time I had really shot airglow, which was kind of a surprise given how close to Salt Lake City I still was, I did not expect to be able to see the phenomenon given the light pollution.
Using the tracking mount (and reading the wonderful tutorials by Roger Clark) gave me ideas on how to image the sky in a way to really reduce noise, bring out details, and create a shot that represents the highest quality I think can be produced. It allows me to stop down my lens to sharpen stars, lower ISO to reduce noise, and capture enough light to bring out the most in the night sky. Of course using a tracking mount means that you take long exposures of the sky which causes the foreground to be blurred, this means learning advanced editing techniques to merge foreground and sky shots in post-processing. This has caused my post-processing to be an ever evolving methodology that has changed significantly as I've learned new techniques, new tricks, and practiced new ideas. So with this edit I've combined everything I've learned over the course of the year to maximize detail, color, and creativity while keeping noise to near zero and (hopefully) not making a wildly over-processed looking shot.
This is a panorama of 8 shots total, 4 for the sky and 4 for the foreground, taken with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens. As with all my images I create using a tracking mount, all the shots were taken back to back, I also try my hardest to make all shots have the same exposure settings. In this case the sky shots were 2 minute exposures at ISO 400 and f2.8, the foreground shots were 2 minute exposures at ISO 800 and f2.8.
I shoot at a white balance setting of 5000k, this white balance is as close to accurate as one can shoot the night sky. Most people shoot at white balance settings in the 3000-4000k range which is not an accurate white balance and produces an image that is too blue. There is a back and forth about the balance between art and science for Milky Way photography among photographers, I'm unwilling to sacrifice the accuracy of a shot based upon scientific backing in this regard and I will do my absolute best to produce an image of the night sky that has the correct color balance. People are certainly free to produce an artistic shot of the night sky, color balancing it any way they choose, but among the hardcore astrophotography community you will find an agreement that shooting at a white balance setting around 5000k is the most accurate DSLR cameras can be set at to produce a natural image of the night sky. If people are curious about reading the reasoning, the actual science, behind this I highly recommend reading Roger Clark's series at www.clarkvision.com/articles/color.of.the.night.sky/
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Black Panther: Torso is Zod with mods. The mask is a modded Chima bear. The claws were made by my brother.
Vision: Huge Cred to Jacob Carlson for the idea. Just a bunch of paint mods were added for accuracy.
Entrance/Exit, one of a number with varying coloured tiling.
Note the original steel framed Crittall windows. This building has Grade ll Listed status.
LR4088 © Joe O'Malley 2021
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a tactical .40 cal compact pistol used by WOLVES because of its accuracy, versatility, stopping power, and concealability.
5986: Amazon Ancient Ruins
A set that involved a lot of details, but it was worth it in the end.
I reused the rock base design I had made for the 2019 version. But most of this is a complete redesign.
Originally I didn't want to go for an Aztec pyramid design. But I wanted to have some accuracy to the architecture. With a bit of a twist.
In the first picture you can't see it fully. But the entrance to the temple is a giant stone mouth, it's a nice little feature to have to make the temple look a bit more imposing.
Inside the temple there is more treasure than just the sun disk. And a strange glowing crystal within that seems to be connected to the face in the treasure room. Could it be a portal? Or is it just for spooky effect? Who knows...
Below that is just a cavern section with a few unfortunate remains.
Below the bridge lies the remains of a conquistador in a small cavern. Looks like he was after some gold.
And up on top of the temple is Achu's throne. The angler fish headpiece really adds some nice detailing to the design.
The car is a tweaked variant of the treasure raiders car. I really wanted to incorporate a yellow car in one of these adventurers revamps.
The small river boat has stayed the same. Just with a different hull colour.
And that wraps up the jungle subtheme of Lego Adventurers. The only set I didn't revamp was the River raft, I felt like it wasn't absolutely necessary to redesign as it's just meant to be a simple raft.
The full moon in a cloudless sky was known as "Comanche Moon" among the settlements of Texas. Emma Murck was a journalist and the daughter of a police commissioner of Barmen. The men of the settlement were chasing down strayed cattle when the Comanche attacked homesteads in the Central Texas region. The German Freidankers (free-thinkers) were known to practice target shooting on the Sabbath instead of attending church services.
On this occasion the custom was worthwhile. My g-g-grandmother fired with deadly accuracy while her young children molded bullets for the rifle in the fireplace. All residents of the homestead survived the encounter. I might add that the German immigrants had a wonderful efficiency for producing masterful examples of muzzle-loading rifles.
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View of Licancabur volcano from the aboves of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Your breath and the smooth cool breeze are the only thing you can hear. The sky couldn't be more blue and what unfolds in front of your eyes is phenomenal.
The only thing you want to do is rest from the climb so the only thing you can hear is the sound of the smooth cool breeze.
I'll take the opportunity to apologize for lacking the time to answer all your more than kind comments.
Still, know that they're all very, very, very well receive, to the point that they make my part, the sharing, a whole lot easier.
Some days, I even feel like snow white when she has the dishes to clean and all of her friends from the forest come and help her while everybody is whistling a happy tune.
I'll finish with another tribute to my man, Wayne Kennedy, who, by his fidelity, kindness, dedication, accuracy, sharp eyes and comments, is turning my entire Flickr experience into, among other things, travelling in the photographs again, sharpening my memories in the process.
"Party Like its 1979" photo shoot at the Kentucky Steam Heritage facility in Ravenna, KY. Photo edited to depict historical accuracy.
Came across a fine photo of this stone by Andrew Caveney in the book: Calderdale Architecture and History. The book written in the 1980s by Alan Betteridge, Derek Bridge and Peter Thornborrow is a gem for its quality and accuracy. The photos are outstanding. Looking at the book I am learning much about the art of photography.
According to the book this is a prehistoric monolith of Kinderscout gritstone. It is 12 foot high - there is a smaller stone close by with which it is alignment so they may have had some ritual / astronomical significance.
kayaking!
The accuracy only goes so far because I usually double kayak with a friend and also this does not look like me at all. LEGO needs a lot more girl hairdos... and faces... and shirts.
This is a one-man (actually one-woman) collab. It's hard to refrain from making fun of my fellow LUGites... I mean here we are in month two. It's a little early for burnout, guys. ;)
Lot of new stuff for me here, two new tree techniques and a water experiment! Let me know what you think!
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