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Barbara Gilhooly,
Bubbles wire installation, annealed steel wire in various gauges. 3-D sculptural forms.
Gilhooly's wire sculpture is represented by
New Mind Space mounts a Bubble Battle in Astor Place, because, well, because it's summer, and who doesn't love making bubbles? It ends up being a silly and delightful event that runs to a couple of generations and encompasses an easygoing wide range of personal styles.
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A Benson Bubbler drinking fountain seen in front of Benson High School in Portland, Oregon.
In 1912 lumber baron, Simon Benson, donated $10,000 to the City of Portland, Oregon to install 20 drinking fountains. They became know as Benson Bubblers. A teatotaler, Benson hoped that the fountains would keep his lumberjacks out of the taverns. There are now 52 Benson Bubblers, most located in the downtown area of Portland. This exception is located in front of Benson High School. In 1916, Benson gave the Portland School District $100,000 to help fund the building of a polytechnic school, which became known as Benson Polytechnic High School.
Photo taken for Never Professional challenge #87 - Freeze Frame.
Admittedly this is a little different from the other Games as you have to take things with you - a plastic bottle with end cut off, a sock to put over cut end of bottle and a container of a little water mixed with washing up liquid. It was weird seeing long snakes of bubbles in the road!
4 tier wedding cake covered in chocolate fondant and decorated with a piped design and sugar bubbles added. Sugar bubbles are made by Marilyn Ludwig.
These bubblers (water fountains) dispensing free filtered water are becoming very common around Sydney. Generally not as ornately encased as this one is... The idea is to cut down on the number of plastic water bottles ending up as landfill, or just discarded on the streets. Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands recently banned the selling of bottled water completely, and has made available these types of bubblers all around the town. And truth be known it's exactly what we're paying for in ALL the bottled brands of water anyway.
The Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule syn. Papaver croceum, P. amurense, P. miyabeanum, and P. macounii) is a boreal flowering plant. Native to subpolar regions of northern Europe and North America, Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials,grown as biennials, that yield large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy, 1-foot, curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long. They were first described by botanists in 1759. The wild species blooms in white or yellow, and is hardy from USDA Zones 3a-10b. All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous[1], containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids.
Varieties
Cultivars come in shades of yellow, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-colored varieties. Seed strains include: ‘Champagne Bubbles’ (15-inch plants in orange, pink, scarlet, apricot, yellow, and creamy-white); ‘Wonderland’ (10-inch dwarf strain with flowers up to 4 inches wide); ‘Flamenco’ (pink shades, bordered white, 1½ to 2 feet tall); ‘Party Fun’ (to 1 foot, said to bloom reliably the first year in autumn and the second spring); ‘Illumination’ and ‘Meadow Pastels’ (to 2 feet, perhaps the tallest strains); ‘Matador’ (scarlet flowers to 5 inches across on 16 inch plants); and ‘Oregon Rainbows’, which has large selfed, bicolor, and picoteed flowers and is perhaps the best strain for the cool Pacific Northwest[3] (elsewhere this strain’s buds frequently fail to open).
At the end of the evening, the couple were sent out on a cloud of bubbles.
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Bubble grows due to flux of Nitrogen and Carbon Dioxide gas through the walls of the cellulose from the surrounding liquid.
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