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A closeup of the icosidodecahedron focal bead.
Miyuki “Magic” seed beads, handmade Venetian beads, Swarovski crystals, Japanese seed beads, sterling silver clasp. Created November 2007
This little bug was neat, he reminded me of something from Star Wars, for some reason. I searched the Rosemary for others but didn't see another.
There were a few squirrels running around, looking for dinner, while I worked on throwing branches and leaves into the fire. A couple of them let me get close enough to take pictures.
The word [serendipity] was coined by that curious man Sir Horace Walpole, known today (if at all) as one of the founders of the "Gothic" tale of suspense and terror, but more famously in his own time as an especially elegant and proficient writer of letters. In a 1754 letter to a friend he describes his discovery of some curious Venetian coat of arms and pauses to say that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity." And then he explains this "very expressive word" of his own invention: "I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip'"--Serendip being an old name for Sri Lanka: "as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of... (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description)." The finding of what one is not looking for will be the element of the letter most obviously relevant to what I've been saying so far; but equally important is the phrase "by accidents and sagacity," or, as Walpole puts it later in the same letter, "accidental sagacity."
From The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs.
My dad just got back from safari in South Africa. While he was there, he snapped this shot of a female lion. Be sure to look at the full version for great details!
Here's another picture of an elephant he took on a different safari (sorta NSFW).
A closeup of the left side of the keyboard, which has the function keys on the left side instead of the top of the keyboard.
Closeup of an orenberg lace project I did years ago. Pattern is Orenberg Lace Triangle by Galina Khmeleva
Smurf eggs! Get them! (I mean, how else would they get such a large population? They've only got one woman..I bet they're like fish. She lays lots of eggs in one time, and some of the guys come by later and fertilize them.) (Also, would there be pink and green smurfs? If there are smurf eggs in those colors...)
The challenge with this lens is to get close enough to the kitties without them actually touching the lens with their noses.