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WEEK 3 – Memphis Kmart Closing, II
I browsed through the fixtures some, taking pictures as I went along, which is why these may seem slightly all over the place, haha! (Unusual for me, I'm actually uploading these in the order they were taken instead of arranging them into something more presentable.) Anyway, as I neared the back of the fixture sale area, I noticed the meat service department was also visible, way off in the back here. Also in this shot, you can see on the left edge the area I was able to get these pics from last time from.
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Farrah Fawcett as repainted and styled by Noel Cruz of www.ncruz.com.
Farrah is shopping in the Barbie Store Diorama by Ken Haseltine.
More repainted art by Noel Cruz are featured in the 1Sixth Winter Hardbound Edition available in Hardback/imagewrap or paperback cover. Also as a PDF or eBook. Order here: www.blurb.com/b/9320555-1sixth
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Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
One of my favorite weekend activities is browsing old pictures. As our processing techniques and perspectives mature, some of these pictures that were overlooked at the time get a second chance. They are also portals to some of the happiest/craziest times on the road, like this remote location in the great basin along a steaming geo-thermal hot creek. We had planned for a sunrise shot, but were not prepared for the unusually cold night, hence the star trails from 2 in the morning :) Happy weekend end.
Peace W^C.
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Yarn Coronation Crown King Charles III (18/52)
A Yarn display created to celebrate The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III at 'The Old Halt', Dunchurch, Warwickshire.
Please, if you have some extra browsing time have a look at the rest of my 'Project 52 2023' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72177720305238552
Please, if you have even more time, have a browse at my previous years projects:-
'Project 52 2013' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157632445195620
'Project 52 2014' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157639407666594
'Project 52 2015' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157650090374041
'Project 52 2016' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157660757070783
'Project 52 2017' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157677419784130
'Project 52 2018' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157689104924052
'Project 52 2019' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157702107071042
'Project 52 2020' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157712523161043
'Project 52 2021' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72157717690744777
'Project 52 2022' photo set www.flickr.com/photos/29663856@N03/albums/72177720295823113
So, I was browsing the C4C creations looking to see if any of my favourite builders had put up anything cool I could spend my money on, and came across the micro planet express ship I had previously admired during Sean & Steph's last IB round. Thinking this was the perfect chance to own a creation from a pair of builders I admire deeply, and a creation from one of my favourite TV shows Futurama too, I went ahead and bought it.
Some time went by, and then they put up pictures of the complete Planet Express building together with the micro ship I bought, saying the buyer was getting the whole thing... Being the buyer, I did this :O and almost fell off my chair...
So here it is, safe and sound :) The building came as a bit of a puzzle, but the tower and ship was surprisingly (almost) completely intact after it's journey.
Words really can't express how awesome you guys are! Thank you so much! :) I hope some day that I can do something equally awesome for you...
For now, this will sit proudly on my shelf, providing me with inspiration to improve my own building skills.
PS: micro figs of the Planet Express crew are added by me, just for fun :P
PPS: those of you who know the state of my LEGO room might notice that there are visible parts of my desk in the background!!!
This image was taken while we were ordering at Kushi Japanese restaurant in Auckland.
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A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing, or trailing, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles.[citation needed] Their flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows and reds. Most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwestern Africa.[citation needed] Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant. Roses have acquired cultural significance in many societies. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach seven meters in height.[citation needed] Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses.
The leaves are borne alternately on the stem. In most species they are 5 to 15 centimetres (2.0 to 5.9 in) long, pinnate, with (3–) 5–9 (–13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets usually have a serrated margin, and often a few small prickles on the underside of the stem. Most roses are deciduous but a few (particularly from Southeast Asia) are evergreen or nearly so.
The flowers of most species have five petals, with the exception of Rosa sericea, which usually has only four. Each petal is divided into two distinct lobes and is usually white or pink, though in a few species yellow or red. Beneath the petals are five sepals (or in the case of some Rosa sericea, four). These may be long enough to be visible when viewed from above and appear as green points alternating with the rounded petals. There are multiple superior ovaries that develop into achenes.[3] Roses are insect-pollinated in nature.
The aggregate fruit of the rose is a berry-like structure called a rose hip. Many of the domestic cultivars do not produce hips, as the flowers are so tightly petalled that they do not provide access for pollination. The hips of most species are red, but a few (e.g. Rosa pimpinellifolia) have dark purple to black hips. Each hip comprises an outer fleshy layer, the hypanthium, which contains 5–160 "seeds" (technically dry single-seeded fruits called achenes) embedded in a matrix of fine, but stiff, hairs. Rose hips of some species, especially the dog rose (Rosa canina) and rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa), are very rich in vitamin C, among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit-eating birds such as thrushes and waxwings, which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly finches, also eat the seeds.
The sharp growths along a rose stem, though commonly called "thorns", are technically prickles, outgrowths of the epidermis (the outer layer of tissue of the stem), unlike true thorns, which are modified stems. Rose prickles are typically sickle-shaped hooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as Rosa rugosa and Rosa pimpinellifolia have densely packed straight prickles, probably an adaptation to reduce browsing by animals, but also possibly an adaptation to trap wind-blown sand and so reduce erosion and protect their roots (both of these species grow naturally on coastal sand dunes). Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer. A few species of roses have only vestigial prickles that have no points.
Evolution
The oldest remains of roses are from the Late Eocene Florissant Formation of Colorado. Roses were present in Europe by the early Oligocene.
Today's garden roses come from 18th-century China. Among the old Chinese garden roses, the Old Blush group is the most primitive, while newer groups are the most diverse.
Species
Hulthemia (formerly Simplicifoliae, meaning "with single leaves") containing two species from southwest Asia, Rosa persica and Rosa berberifolia, which are the only roses without compound leaves or stipules.
Hesperrhodos (from the Greek for "western rose") contains Rosa minutifolia and Rosa stellata, from North America.
Platyrhodon (from the Greek for "flaky rose", referring to flaky bark) with one species from east Asia, Rosa roxburghii (also known as the chestnut rose).
Rosa (the type subgenus, sometimes incorrectly called Eurosa) containing all the other roses. This subgenus is subdivided into 11 sections.
Banksianae – white and yellow flowered roses from China.
Bracteatae – three species, two from China and one from India.
Caninae – pink and white flowered species from Asia, Europe and North Africa.
Carolinae – white, pink, and bright pink flowered species all from North America.
Chinensis – white, pink, yellow, red and mixed-colour roses from China and Burma.
Gallicanae – pink to crimson and striped flowered roses from western Asia and Europe.
Gymnocarpae – one species in western North America (Rosa gymnocarpa), others in east Asia.
Laevigatae – a single white flowered species from China.
Pimpinellifoliae – white, pink, bright yellow, mauve and striped roses from Asia and Europe.
Rosa (syn. sect. Cinnamomeae) – white, pink, lilac, mulberry and red roses from everywhere but North Africa.
Synstylae – white, pink, and crimson flowered roses from all areas.
Uses
Roses are best known as ornamental plants grown for their flowers in the garden and sometimes indoors. They have been also used for commercial perfumery and commercial cut flower crops. Some are used as landscape plants, for hedging and for other utilitarian purposes such as game cover and slope stabilization.
Ornamental plants
The majority of ornamental roses are hybrids that were bred for their flowers. A few, mostly species roses are grown for attractive or scented foliage (such as Rosa glauca and Rosa rubiginosa), ornamental thorns (such as Rosa sericea) or for their showy fruit (such as Rosa moyesii).
Ornamental roses have been cultivated for millennia, with the earliest known cultivation known to date from at least 500 BC in Mediterranean countries, Persia, and China. It is estimated that 30 to 35 thousand rose hybrids and cultivars have been bred and selected for garden use as flowering plants. Most are double-flowered with many or all of the stamens having morphed into additional petals.
In the early 19th century the Empress Josephine of France patronized the development of rose breeding at her gardens at Malmaison. As long ago as 1840 a collection numbering over one thousand different cultivars, varieties and species was possible when a rosarium was planted by Loddiges nursery for Abney Park Cemetery, an early Victorian garden cemetery and arboretum in England.
Cut flowers
Roses are a popular crop for both domestic and commercial cut flowers. Generally they are harvested and cut when in bud, and held in refrigerated conditions until ready for display at their point of sale.
In temperate climates, cut roses are often grown in greenhouses, and in warmer countries they may also be grown under cover in order to ensure that the flowers are not damaged by weather and that pest and disease control can be carried out effectively. Significant quantities are grown in some tropical countries, and these are shipped by air to markets across the world.
Some kind of roses are artificially coloured using dyed water, like rainbow roses.
Perfume
Rose perfumes are made from rose oil (also called attar of roses), which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses. An associated product is rose water which is used for cooking, cosmetics, medicine and religious practices. The production technique originated in Persia and then spread through Arabia and India, and more recently into eastern Europe. In Bulgaria, Iran and Germany, damask roses (Rosa × damascena 'Trigintipetala') are used. In other parts of the world Rosa × centifolia is commonly used. The oil is transparent pale yellow or yellow-grey in colour. 'Rose Absolute' is solvent-extracted with hexane and produces a darker oil, dark yellow to orange in colour. The weight of oil extracted is about one three-thousandth to one six-thousandth of the weight of the flowers; for example, about two thousand flowers are required to produce one gram of oil.
The main constituents of attar of roses are the fragrant alcohols geraniol and L-citronellol and rose camphor, an odorless solid composed of alkanes, which separates from rose oil. β-Damascenone is also a significant contributor to the scent.
Food and drink
Rose hips are high in vitamin C, are edible raw, and occasionally made into jam, jelly, marmalade, and soup, or are brewed for tea. They are also pressed and filtered to make rose hip syrup. Rose hips are also used to produce rose hip seed oil, which is used in skin products and some makeup products.
Rose water has a very distinctive flavour and is used in Middle Eastern, Persian, and South Asian cuisine—especially in sweets such as Turkish delight, barfi, baklava, halva, gulab jamun, knafeh, and nougat. Rose petals or flower buds are sometimes used to flavour ordinary tea, or combined with other herbs to make herbal teas. A sweet preserve of rose petals called gulkand is common in the Indian subcontinent. The leaves and washed roots are also sometimes used to make tea.
In France, there is much use of rose syrup, most commonly made from an extract of rose petals. In the Indian subcontinent, Rooh Afza, a concentrated squash made with roses, is popular, as are rose-flavoured frozen desserts such as ice cream and kulfi.
The flower stems and young shoots are edible, as are the petals (sans the white or green bases). The latter are usually used as flavouring or to add their scent to food. Other minor uses include candied rose petals.
Rose creams (rose-flavoured fondant covered in chocolate, often topped with a crystallised rose petal) are a traditional English confectionery widely available from numerous producers in the UK.
Under the American Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, there are only certain Rosa species, varieties, and parts are listed as generally recognized as safe (GRAS).
Rose absolute: Rosa alba L., Rosa centifolia L., Rosa damascena Mill., Rosa gallica L., and vars. of these spp.
Rose (otto of roses, attar of roses): Ditto
Rose buds
Rose flowers
Rose fruit (hips)
Rose leaves: Rosa spp.
As a food ingredient
The rose hip, usually from R. canina, is used as a minor source of vitamin C. Diarrhodon (Gr διάρροδον, "compound of roses", from ῥόδων, "of roses") is a name given to various compounds in which red roses are an ingredient.
Art and symbolism
The long cultural history of the rose has led to it being used often as a symbol. In ancient Greece, the rose was closely associated with the goddess Aphrodite. In the Iliad, Aphrodite protects the body of Hector using the "immortal oil of the rose" and the archaic Greek lyric poet Ibycus praises a beautiful youth saying that Aphrodite nursed him "among rose blossoms". The second-century AD Greek travel writer Pausanias associates the rose with the story of Adonis and states that the rose is red because Aphrodite wounded herself on one of its thorns and stained the flower red with her blood. Book Eleven of the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius contains a scene in which the goddess Isis, who is identified with Venus, instructs the main character, Lucius, who has been transformed into a donkey, to eat rose petals from a crown of roses worn by a priest as part of a religious procession in order to regain his humanity. French writer René Rapin invented a myth in which a beautiful Corinthian queen named Rhodanthe ("she with rose flowers") was besieged inside a temple of Artemis by three ardent suitors who wished to worship her as a goddess; the god Apollo then transformed her into a rosebush.
Following the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the rose became identified with the Virgin Mary. The colour of the rose and the number of roses received has symbolic representation. The rose symbol eventually led to the creation of the rosary and other devotional prayers in Christianity.
Ever since the 1400s, the Franciscans have had a Crown Rosary of the Seven Joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the 1400s and 1500s, the Carthusians promoted the idea of sacred mysteries associated with the rose symbol and rose gardens. Albrecht Dürer's painting The Feast of the Rosary (1506) depicts the Virgin Mary distributing garlands of roses to her worshippers.
Roses symbolised the Houses of York and Lancaster in a conflict known as the Wars of the Roses.
Roses are a favored subject in art and appear in portraits, illustrations, on stamps, as ornaments or as architectural elements. The Luxembourg-born Belgian artist and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté is known for his detailed watercolours of flowers, particularly roses.
Henri Fantin-Latour was also a prolific painter of still life, particularly flowers including roses. The rose 'Fantin-Latour' was named after the artist.
Other impressionists including Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir have paintings of roses among their works. In the 19th century, for example, artists associated the city of Trieste with a certain rare white rose, and this rose developed as the city's symbol. It was not until 2021 that the rose, which was believed to be extinct, was rediscovered there.
In 1986 President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to make the rose the floral emblem of the United States.
Pests and diseases
Main article: List of pests and diseases of roses
Wild roses are host plants for a number of pests and diseases. Many of these affect other plants, including other genera of the Rosaceae.
Cultivated roses are often subject to severe damage from insect, arachnid and fungal pests and diseases. In many cases they cannot be usefully grown without regular treatment to control these problems.
I was browsing through my photo and I just can't help it...I have to upload this photo of the Lynx.
I like the way he is looking right into the camera.
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EXPLORED #122 | 11/10/2011 - thank you all for your nice comments, it got me on explore!
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I've been tagged by Kevin [come_wat_may], so here it goes:
Last thing you watched on TV? The Big Bang Theory
What's in your fridge? all kinds of delicious fruit
Last person you talked to? my boyfriend
Favorite color? at this moment RED, but it changes from time to time
Any pets? I used to have a dog, named Beauty =)
Favorite smell? soup. My mom makes soup every saterday morning and the house is filled with the smell of soup. I like waking up that way...
What's your current mood? sleepy, but happy
Are you overly emotional? it can happen
What is your prefered type of music? rock
If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be? on a roadtrip through the US with my boyfriend
Last movie you saw? Drive (with Ryan Gosling!)
My wife browses at Elliot Bay Book Co, Seattle, WA
Shot on my Leica CL with Ilford HP5 pushed to ISO800
In these next series of pictures, ST asked me to just look busy on my own while he discreetly took pictures of me. I liked that idea because I was already feeling self conscious about posing in these public places. My concern is that it would draw attention to me, and I didn't want to get "read". Him taking discreet pictures of me was also exciting!
"Ascending perennial, herb or shrub, 0.3-1.8 m high. Fl. yellow-white, Oct to Dec or Jan to Feb." florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/4958
This single plant 1.6 m high had dried flowers.
Photo Jean
The California Bumble Bee browsing on a sage (Salvia sp.). This is on a cultivated landscape at Microsoft's campus in Mountain View. This landscape has mostly California native plants and is open to the public as it is on the perimeter of the campus. But expect to gain the attention of the security guards ;-)
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Part of the group of Kudu my friend was studying in Kruger National Park, South Africa to determine which large ungulates were vectors for Anthrax tranmission
While browsing on Twitter I noticed EricIGN's awesome Bane life size standee. So I was like "How cool would that be to have The Dark Knight himself in my room!" So I looked it up on Ebay and there it was! A life size cutout of Christian Bale's Batman.
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In the Friday market in Cheltenham one couple is checking out the selection of headgear, two other shoppers walking by, chatting happily.
Some photos I took of yesterday evening's beautiful sunset in Prescott. Feel free to browse more photos at www.facebook.com/treerosephotography.
December 2019
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