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Also at Gore Bay, a small settlement on a North Canterbury beach. Warm and sunny today. As usual the good weather comes when the children start school after their summer holidays :)
Clay-coloured sparrow, Rondeau Provincial Park, April 30, 2019.
Anne spotted this sparrow in the yard in a flock of chipping sparrows. Not one we see very often.
Taken through the kitchen window.
Spizella pallida
Clay-colored Sparrow young leave the nest before they can fly. They hop to the ground from their nest in a shrub and run an average of 40 feet to seek cover in a thicket, where their parents will continue to feed them. They won’t fly for the first time for another 6 to 8 days.
43074 Leads a Midland Mainline HST service south past Clay Cross back in 1997. The set had recently been repainted into the new teal livery.
i have this wonderful lady's last name, but having a problem finding her first name.
guess i am going to have to take a drive to boron to the museum there to ask for her name. they had some of her work. which is how i found her in the first place.
she actually goes out and digs her own clay to create her little creatures. and fires them in a small kiln, in the living room!
While riding around Clay County outside Hayesville, NC, we came across this picturesque scene with this old barn and truck. We were going to use our long lenses to shoot it from the road but the owner drove in and said we could come in and take all the photos we wanted. Pretty lucky she happened by.
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To quote to museum notes:
Made in the village of Dymkovo in North Eastern Russia, these clay toys have developed from the ancient whistles used at the pagan festival of the sun god Yerila on the 23rd May.
Photos from Pollocks Toy Museum, London. England.
A westbound UP oil empty is in the siding at Eisele (Clay). Fortunately, this particular oil train is short enough to fit between switches. The third unit on the oil train is kicking up a bit of exhaust while idling. The conductor of the oil train is on the ground to give the eastbound Zephyr a roll by, making sure he does not spot any problems. The oil train will be stuck here for two more eastbounds: a loaded oil train, and the Winter Park Express.
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please feel free to use this texture, and i'd love to see what you do with it.
grab the original here
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i'd love to see what you do with this texture, please post a small image so i can see what you've done!!
I just got this new clay mask, and I thought it gave a nice texture. It also leaves my skin in great condition! A winner! Self care, in these times, can perk one up a bit.
William Ricketts Sanctuary, Mount Dandenong, Victoria
William Ricketts (1898–1993) was an Australian potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement.
Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1898, William settled permanently in Mount Dandenong, Victoria, in 1934. Although not trained as a potter and never technically superior (his works, large and small, frequently exhibit cracking), the power of his vision of a modern Australia that embraces Aboriginal spirituality and respect for the natural world was his general message throughout his artworks. His major works include the "Dromana" in the Seawinds Garden, Arthurs Seat, Victoria, and "Gun Brute" at the William Ricketts Sanctuary, Mount Dandenong, Victoria. Many smaller works are in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Photographic records of his sculptures, particularly those from the sanctuaries of Pitchi Ritchi and Mount Dandenong, which have been vandalised, are held in the archives of Australia's libraries. Ricketts, never rich, supported himself through commissioned sales of his art and made pieces as gifts. These signed original small pieces are increasingly sought after for private collections.
From 1949 to 1960 he made frequent trips into Central Australia to live with Pitjantjatjara and Arrernte Aboriginal people, whose traditions and culture inspired his sculpture. He was not an Aboriginal by blood but considered himself adopted by the Pitjantjatjara nation. He left behind many of his central Australian works at Pitchi Ritchi near Alice Springs – a bird sanctuary run by his friend Leo Corbet – as he considered the landscape integral to these sculptures.
From 1912 to 1920 Ricketts developed skills in playing violin, crafting jewelry and clay modelling. In 1934 he started his major artistic work, creating the sculpture park now named William Ricketts Sanctuary. He worked on this project until his death in 1993. In 1970 he went to India. He spent two years there, mostly at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram spiritual center in Puducherry, developing spiritual empathy with Indian people and knowledge of their philosophy.
William Ricketts Sanctuary
The main work of William Ricketts is the sculpture park that he named Potter's sanctuary, but which is now known as William Ricketts Sanctuary. In the 1960s the Victorian Government bought the Sanctuary from William Ricketts and made it a public park, where William Ricketts lived until his death in 1993. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ricketts
since we lost the ground under our feet a short while ago, working with clay was great fun and helped reconnect... glazing will be a new chapter for me, I am curious
The lower level of the Goonbarrow Refining Plant, which was once used to process china clay slurry, located in mid-Cornwall.
Another of this wonderful rarity... my first, which made the close encounter so more more special. The species is considered rare, but regular on the east coast in fall, so an encounter was likely fated to happen at some point, but I always like to think the best ones happen when you aren't expecting it, so I'm thankful that this happened to be one of them.
I'm gonna capture 'em all
A clay nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna show it all
Taking their time right in front of my lens
And I'm talkin' to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
Polymer Clay - black base and silver frame with Lazertran Silk transfers on polymer clay tiles. Wheel with recycled star.
No pottery wheel? No problem! When Tilly wanted to make a clay pot, she improvised with an old record player that she found in the attic.
This Blythe doll is Simply Bubble Boom, posing for “Made of Clay” in Blythe a Day on Flickr. My daughter found this pretty little pot at a thrift store for 98 cents! The background is a room in Madeline’s Pop-Up Doll House. The pets are Barbie accessories.
A somewhat faded Union Pacific ES44AC leads a freshly repainted AC4400CW west on a loaded coal train bound for Michigan City, IN through Clay Center, OH. At left is a pier from the former interurban bridge that once crossed the NYC here.
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