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This is another button from my vintage collection. It's well over a hundred years old dating back to the 1900s. The little waistcoat button behind it was thrown in as a gift and I love it. The carnelian bead is just there for a bit of extra colour really. :)
I ran across this mysterious button and have no idea what it was on or where it came from. It seems to present a scene of some sort. It is about 40mm in diameter and is surprisingly heavy. It is some sort of metal. At first I thought Pewter but it seems too dark for that. It is too hard for lead but perhaps some sort of alloy. Any info would be appreciated.
I've always thought of boot buttons as black, but it seems some of them were very colourful. I don't know how many buttons were on each boot, but it's hard to imagine pulling a boot on and having to draw each button through a hole with a button hook. I guess they got used to it, but what a performance! Both the boot buttons and the folding button hook date from the 1910s. The buttons are ⅜" wide.
A Tudor Gothic Mansion built between 1830 and 1840.
If you could only see me taking these photo's . LOL
I haven't been able to move my arm from the elbow up since my accident. .....so where there is a will
there is a way., I hold the camera in my left hand and tilt my head towards my right side until my finger
can reach the button and I can see through the view finder. So, they may not be perfect.....but I think I
did a pretty good job given the circumstances.
Many thanks to my Son and lovely daughter in law for this day trip .....I really enjoyed it.
Even the weather was beautiful!
Sony a-350
best viewed in lightbox
Silk Button Galls, my favourite galls, are created by the Silk Button Gall Wasp (Neuroterus numismalis)!
Neuroterus numismalis is a gall wasp that has two generations per year. One being sexual and the other agamic (all female and needs no male to reproduce). The sexual generation causes Blister Galls on Oak leaves. Whereas the agamic generation causes Silk Button Galls on the underside of Oak leaves. This gall wasp is common and widespread in Britain.
The Silk Button Galls are abundant on the underside of the Oak leaves and can reach 3 mm across. This gall holds the agamic generation and looks like a thick, rolled edge disk with a deep central pit and gold hairs, there is no mark on the top of the leaf. It is a single cell gall holding one wasp and can be seen from August to October, until the leaves fall in autumn. The wasp larva will mature in August but remain in the gall on the ground throughout the winter, emerging the following year from February to April.
Event: NEC Classic Motor Show
Location: National Exhibition Centre (NEC), Birmingham, UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5
Lens(s): Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
Film: Ilford HP5+
Shot ISO: 400
Exposure: f/2.8 or f/2 - 1/60 mostly
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Overhead LED
Mounting: Hand-held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10 mins
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Polaroid camera for instant picture taking . From the 1970s .
For "smile on saturday" - "behold the button".
I live in Canada ... land of winter .... this is a button I couldn't live without. It's my car-starter. No matter how windy, snowy, cold, and shivery it is, my car is nice and warm when I climb in and the icy windshield is now clear!
Every year they appear I am fascinated by these amazing little galls! They take their name from the fact that they look like little buttons woven from golden threads! These beautiful looking little galls are made by the asexual generation of the wasp Neuroterus numismalis.
Silk Button Galls are abundant on the underside of the Oak leaves and can reach 3 mm across. They contain the agamic generation of the Silk Button Gall Wasp (Neuroterus numismalis) and look like a thick, rolled edge disk with a deep central pit and gold hairs, there is no mark on the top of the leaf. The galls are a single cell gall holding one wasp and can be seen from August to October, until the leaves fall in autumn. The wasp larva will mature in August but remain in the gall on the ground throughout the winter, emerging the following year from February to April.
This button fairy now resides in Melbourne, Florida!
UPDATE 01/19/08 -- Sadly, this fairy didn't find her way to Melbourne. Maybe the postal service kidnapped her and she's hanging on someone's desk????? I don't know, but I am going to make a replacement and send it out to my partner. I hope the 2nd one will make it.
19.366.2012
Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/3.2
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 500
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash On, Fired triggering 580exii through umbrella left :)
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I had to make these as a custom order for a little girl's room... I just love the way these flowers look so modern and fresh!
Why would a button be bittersweet? Well, because my 16-year old daughter, Anna, can't work buttons. Sometimes the things I take for granted hit me in the gut. I'm pretty far down this path of mothering a child with special needs, but there are still milestones that sting. It can be something simple like knowing other girls her age are wearing makeup (Anna has no interest) or dating (Anna desperately wants a boyfriend) to the bigger things like getting a driver's license (that won't ever happen) or going to junior prom (Anna should be in 11th grade this year but we had her repeat kindergarten). I remind myself of the progress she's making and that she is on her own timeline, but when I saw this week's theme... "Buttons and Bows"... I got a pang. She can't work a button, she doesn't have the fine motor control, so for me, the button is bittersweet.