My hubby just loved the way my braid came out today. He kept on wanting to run his hands over it...

I made this braided mat using an assortment of black and oxford gray jeans and pants that we were not wearing anymore (didn't fit, too old, torn somewhere, etc.)

I cut them into strips, atached the strips to one another with hand stitching and braided them. Handstitched in circular shape.

Red stitching details here and there to add a little bit of color.

Here's a pic of the back of Cheerilee's head.

latest african hairstyle

Annalisa braided my hair

Another close up of a french braid.

They look so good!! Now a few more things in the planters and it's done (only maintenance) You can see we've also been looking at idea for the wedding and this will be the sweetheart table :D

Wrangell - St. Elias National Park, Alaska

Geologic Guide to Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska by Gary R. Winkler

pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1616/P1616-508.pdf -

The rugged mountain ridges surrounding Kennicott

and Root Glaciers and the canyons of the Chitistone and

Nizina Rivers expose in nearly continuous outcrops the most

characteristic rocks of Wrangellia (fig. 17). The distinctive

maroon-weathering slopes of the Nikolai Greenstone contrast

conspicuously with the light-gray-weathering cliffs and ledges

of the overlying Chitistone and Nizina Limestones. The color

contrast can be seen easily from a distance, and by the late

1800’s, the contact zone had gained the attention of prospec

tors and geologists, who discovered that copper lodes were

concentrated in its proximity. By 1900, the fabulous Bonanza

lode east of Kennicott Glacier had been located. By 1905,

probably every linear foot of the contact zone in the southern

Wrangell Mountains had been scrutinized, where it was acces

sible, and all major known copper deposits of the region had

been staked.

The Nikolai Greenstone (fig. 14) consists of Triassic

basalt flows whose aggregate thickness is nearly 10,000 ft.

The greenstone formed a vast volcanic field; today’s rem

nants cover large tracts on both north and south flanks of

the Wrangell Mountains and the south flank of the eastern

Alaska Range, as well as adjacent parts of Canada at least as

far as the Kluane Lake region. Correlative basalts are known

as far west as the Alaska Peninsula and at least as far east as

the Chilkat Peninsula near Haines, Alaska. Large areas of

Triassic basalt on the Queen Charlotte and Vancouver Islands

in British Columbia, known as the Karmutsen Formation,

probably are offset continuations of the same volcanic field,

although displaced by post-Triassic movement along the

Denali, Queen Charlotte, or other major transcurrent fault

systems. The Nikolai Greenstone was extruded during a 7–8

million year interval onto a mostly subaerial volcanic plateau;

near the perimeters of its outcrops, however, submarine flows

have been identified. Volumetric estimates for the Nikolai

Greenstone exceed a staggering 60,000 mi3, enough to bury

the entire State of Oregon with a quarter mile of basalt! The

Nikolai Greenstone is overlain by as much as 3,600 ft of

Upper Triassic limestone and dolomite in the area between

the Kennicott Glacier and the Chitistone River canyon, but

the carbonate rocks thin rapidly westward, eastward, and

northward. The lower part of the Chitistone Limestone in the

McCarthy area contains stromatolites, relicts of evaporites,

and algal-mat chips, which collectively indicate deposition

in a tidal-flat sabkha environment. Sabkhas are widespread

in the Middle East today. The upper part of the Chitistone

Limestone, and the overlying Nizina Limestone, were depos

ited in progressively deepening seawater, culminating, by

latest Triassic time, in deposition of spiculite, muddy lime-

stone, and shale of the McCarthy Formation. The McCarthy

Formation makes up the thin-bedded, dull-brown-weathering,

slope-forming units above the cliff- and ledge-forming Triassic

limestones throughout the region. Between Kennicott and

Nizina Glaciers, an overlying Jurassic sedimentary succession

more than 5,200 ft thick forms the higher ridges and consists

primarily of marine sandstone, shale, and conglomerate.

Locally, the succession includes spiculite and minor coquina;

some beds contain abundant ammonites and mollusks that

substantiate ages ranging from Early to Late Jurassic. Thin

lava flows and beds of volcanic ash in the Middle and Upper

Jurassic parts of the succession, as well as abundant primary

volcanic detritus in the clastic rocks, indicate arc magmatism

from about 170 to 150 m.y. ago in Wrangellia (the so-called

Chitina arc). Lenses of conglomerate and disconformities

within the upper part of the succession indicate episodic uplift

and subsidence—tectonism that probably is an early manifes

tation of the docking of Wrangellia.

Within the Wrangell–Saint Elias region, this complete

Jurassic sequence occurs only in the McCarthy area; its pres

ence indicates the deepest parts of a depositional basin whose

hydraulic regime may have influenced the genesis of Ken

necott-type copper deposits.

In a few widely scattered localities, remnants of fossilif

erous marine siltstone, shale, and limestone of Middle Triassic

age, as much as 300 ft thick, intervene between the Nikolai

Greenstone and underlying rocks. These strata contain the

distinctive age-diagnostic pelecypod, Daonella, and provide

biostratigraphic timing of the onset of basaltic volcanism rep

resented by the overlying Nikolai Greenstone.

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When we are camping, braiding is almost a tribal tradition among the girls, that and it keeps their hair clean

4 pictures of her on my blog

I didn't get this driver's name, but I like the juxstaposition of long braids and metal hardward.

Olympus digital camera

Holly's been doing some really nice work on Anastasia's hair lately. As is so often the case, I am runnin' along behind, trying to keep track of it all.

Photo, model + styling: Me

navajo plied handspun braided into a brim.

picked up stitches to conitnue the cap of this hat in an arty lace 2 ply from the same batt. Colours coordinate.

this is a broad braid, called 'open face' I believe. It's simple 'over 1, under 1'

I'd like to experiment with different numbers such as 'over 2, under 3'. A next time.

A photo taken almost 2 years back when I first learned how to french braid.

I've been playing Braid, the diabolical puzzle platform game from 2008. At first I thought the puzzles were 'simplistic', once you got the hang of the game's "time travel" mechanic, but as I've progressed, the puzzles have also progressed in difficulty. I have spent hours wrestling with the puzzles, and what's odd is that I forget how I solved them the moment I start the next one. All that said, this is one of my favorite games so far. I can't wait to finish.

Looking over the Waimakariri River bed March 13, 2014 South Island, New Zealand.

A braided river is one of a number of channel types and has a channel that consists of a network of small channels separated by small and often temporary islands called braid bars or, in British usage, aits or eyots. Braided streams occur in rivers with high slope and/or large sediment load. Braided channels are also typical of environments that dramatically decrease channel depth, and consequently channel velocity, such as river deltas, alluvial fans and peneplains.

Braided rivers, as distinct from meandering rivers, occur when a threshold level of sediment load or slope is reached. Geologically speaking, an increase in sediment load will over time increase the slope of the river, so these two conditions can be considered synonymous; and, consequently, a variation of slope can model a variation in sediment load. A threshold slope was experimentally determined to be 0.016 (ft/ft) for a 0.15 cu ft/s (0.0042 m3/s) stream with poorly sorted coarse sand. Any slope over this threshold created a braided stream, while any slope under the threshold created a meandering stream or— for very low slopes—a straight channel. So the main controlling factor on river development is the amount of sediment that the river carries; once a given system crosses a threshold value for sediment load, it will convert from a meandering system to a braided system. Also important to channel development is the proportion of suspended load sediment to bed load. An increase in suspended sediment allowed for the deposition of fine erosion-resistant material on the inside of a curve, which accentuated the curve and in some instances caused a river to shift from a braided to a meandering profile The channels and braid bars are usually highly mobile, with the river layout often changing significantly during flood

events.Channels move sideways via differential velocity: On the outside of a curve, deeper, swift water picks up sediment (usually gravel or larger stones), which is re-deposited in slow-moving water on the inside of a bend.

The braided channels may flow within an area defined by relatively stable banks or may occupy an entire valley floor. The Rakaia River in Canterbury, New Zealand has cut a channel 100 metres wide into the surrounding plains; this river transports sediment to a lagoon located on the river-coast interface.

For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braided_river

Miss Gulch repaint by Star Studio (Vanessa Tull)

ROMANIA. Bucharest. 2014.

Models: Heather Pownell, Andi Rouse

Stylists: Addey Cronkrite, Tiffany Wara at She. Hair Boutique

The Braid van (known as VAN-Nessa) circa 1996 in Lake Charles, LA.

This is another technique that I learned in Peru. This braid is made from wool spun for Navajo weaving.

Taken with strobes and ambient lighting. Two different model's hair braided together.

There are two braids, one for each side and the sweep down into a braided bun. I have been having fun braiding my hair the last few weeks. After hacking it off last winter, it's finally long enough to get back into it. Although, the end that's rolled up into the bun is kind of small. My hair use to be a lot thicker, before I had Brice.

when its so curly, and you braid it, the braids get all puffy and stick out very cute!

My grandma told me not to cut my hair, just to keep it like this. But... nobody knows how to braid my hair like this except for you, grandma!

Self-dyed and braided

scavchal4 something braided

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Nizina River, a braided glacial river in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, as seen from an Operation IceBridge Alaska flight in August 2018. [NASA/Jefferson Beck.]