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For the Macro Mondays challenge "Bottle Cap" (April 22nd 2019)
The screw cap for an old perfume bottle. There is a glass dipstick attached to the top too, for putting just a dab of perfume on your skin! Such a shame that our perfumes all come in sealed atomisers now ;o)
(Size guide shot in the first comment field)
Happy Macro Monday!
My 2019 Macro Mondays set: Here
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My 2016 set: 2016 Macro Mondays
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These remarkable mushrooms look very much like the reproductive organ of a male dog, hence the common name. They are also called the devil's dipstick. Find them fruiting now in the fall from mulched flower beds or similar spots where weed competition is minimal. The super-stinky brown slime has already been licked off those reddish spikes by hungry bugs. Notice those pale stinkhorn "eggs" that have yet to hatch.
Elegant Stinkhorn
dog stinkhorn
Mutinus elegans
...are you happy to see me or are you just attracting flies?
Dipstick. :-) My husbands idea and I loved it! HMM! (I cropped this and it just comes in at 3 inches. The hole is very small, for those that know cars.
Riversdale, Md - There are other types with interesting names like, Devils Dipstick and Elegant Stinkhorn. It's always exciting to spot this unusual and stinky mushroom.
The oil still looks relatively clean, but with the level on the dipstick falling about midway between the Full mark and the Low mark, it looks like ol' Betsy is down by about half a quart of oil. I'll have to keep an eye on this...
Done for Macro Mondays "stick" theme, and for Our Daily Challenge "bokeh" theme
HMM
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck, Demented, Dinosaur, Donkey,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck, Demented, Dinosaur, Donkey, December, Dragon, Drachma, Dance, Disk, Duet, Dollar, Donald, Dunce, Happy Birthday Mum, Diamond, Demand, Desert, Dialog,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
Hotrod running hot at the burnoutstrip and shooting out burning oil thru the dipstick tube. Luckily nobody was hurt and the hotrod took no serious damage. Looks worse than it is!
Västerås Summer Meet 2017
Sweden 20170708
The lady needed an oil change in the end but then she was good to go. Popped her hood and got right to work, so I did. She even booked another service and asked if I could tighten her spark plugs. I told her I'd love to oblige if she were willing to hold my ratchet set. Satisfied customer :)
Shot at : Merricks Photography
Pose: Break Poses - Kiss Me
Backdrop: Synnergy Travis - Sunset Rising
This indicator tells you the current water level. But it is also an indicator for global warning and sea water levels rising...
Wierum, Friesland, The Netherlands.
About as remote as it gets in the Central Highlands.
I first passed through this country just over 22 years ago on an Easter weekend backpacking trip. Coinciding with a rare, early heatwave, I walked in one direction for many miles & ended up sunburned on one side of my face, the other side unaffected. I felt a right dipstick on the train home from Taynuilt!
Sunstar 1/24th scale London transport Greenline Routemaster coach with bonnet open to display model of the AEC engine.
my first dipstick. (i am laughing, giddy, because i so don't know what i'm doing!)
hey, just realized i could also call these my "dipshits", in honor of dear old mum,
who was quite fond of the "endearment", and from whom i've adopted the term
quite fondly myself!
Well, I didn't expect to see a crew member climb up onto the wings of a PBY Catalina, pull out a dipstick, and check the engine oil before winding up the engines - kind of like you would do at a self serve gas station. It makes perfect sense, of course. It's all what you're used to seeing, I suppose.
The aircraft named "Mary K" from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum was visiting a local "Wings and Wheels" event. It's distinctive profile was a joy to see - and hear - the sound of those two 1200 hp Pratt & Whitney engines is unmistakable.
A ranch pond with a unique level sensor. Hard guessing just where the pond level reads.
while out walking.
One from a wee recce yesterday afternoon. This is probably the last dead Scots pine standing on the moor. I was gutted to get there to discover another tree growing along side, it sort of gets in the way.
It's not the finished article and not the conditions I was hoping for. It was looking good on the walk out but by the time I got there it had brightened up with strong sunshine. A location I think I'll visit again and again as I don't think I made the most of my short visit there.
Why the short visit? I had to wade through part of the lochan thigh deep to get on to this little island, the coldness of wet clothing was starting to set in and I still had to wade back then the long trudge back to the car. On the plus side, the tripod makes a good bog water dipstick.
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September 25, 2017
Two flies are sharing a the stinky slime of an elegant stinkhorn mushroom. It may be a "dog stinkhorn," but I can't be sure.
This odd mushroom showed up in our front yard the other day, and continues to "sprout" new growth every morning (This is day 3).
We didn't know what it was, but it really, REALLY smelled bad... like a rotting dead animal. Web research pretty clearly points to it being some kind of a "Mutinus" fungi. My guess is "elegans." or caninus, and I'd love some ID help from any of you mushroom experts out there!
It has some really wonderful common names, such as "devil's dipstick," "elegant stinkhorn," "dog stinkhorn," "headless stinkhorn, and (This one made me laugh), "shitty carrot."
The reason for the smell is to attract flies. The flies land on the oozing stinky brown slime and to feed on it, thinking it's carrion. In turn, the flies unknowingly transport the fungus' spores from place to place.
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Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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I quickly unsheath my sword and cut off the leaders head.
"I need that for proof. As for the rest of you. Bye bye!"
I press the button on the detonator.
"KABOOM!!"
"Woohoo! Eat it Michael Bay!"
"Cuz baby you're a FIREWORK!!"
And that kids, is how you successfully get rid of a dictatoring cult.
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"What do you mean, 'all five'?"
"Chris, one; Michael, two; Levi, three; Sam, four; Kenny, five... duuuhhh."
"I said six you dipstick. You forgot McDaniels! You let one live."
"Ah, he'll probably lie low now knowing his friends kicked the bucket... or was it more took a ride in a blender... ah whatever..."
"He better. If he comes back on the radar, you'll be sorry."
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Thank you to my friend Kenny (BlockBro) for helping me with this. Truly he's the real star of this story. :D
Also known as Dog Stinkhorns or Devils Dipsticks, these shockingly strange looking fungi grow in the same areas as most mushrooms. They are not considered poisonous but are covered with a very foul smelling slime that serves to spread their spores. When you see and smell them up close, you simply would not want to put them in your mouth. The Stinkhorns shown here were found in our field. they are about five or six inches long and approximately two inches in circumference.
Dusk at Lake Mcgregor. We took the camper van up some very narrow tracks to get here. One of the plans was to do some astrophotography that night since this is an area renown for its dark skies. Sadly it was cloudy and to make matters worse a load of dipsticks turned up in the dark in vans and cars and spent until the small hours shouting and endlessly banging car doors. Since this place is really in the 'back of beyond' this behaviour was really unexpected and unwelcome. Just goes to show that wherever you go in the world there's always some ******* spoiling it!
April2025.Diptych of a Dipstick(Yadi). Really a lovable guy. Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Kentmere400@200.Pentax17.YellowFilter.IlfotecDD-X@7minutes.AGOFilmProcessor.CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck, Demented, Dinosaur, Donkey, December, Dragon, Drachma, Dance, Disk, Duet, Dollar, Donald, Dunce, Happy Birthday Mum, Diamond, Demand, Desert, Dialog, Dance, Daddy, Decaf, Didier, Duchamp, Dimitri,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck, Demented, Dinosaur, Donkey, December, Dragon, Drachma,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
A lovely little chap in his bright crimson waistcoat.
There were a fair number of these around near the NT car park, I spent some time trying to photograph a small gang of about 6-7 in late afternoon and there must have been a flock of nearly 30 birds around just before I left to go back for dinner. They were very shy, just like the Skylarks and hell's own job to get close enough.
I even went back to the car to get my hide bag out for the first time ever to try to get a wee bit closer; felt a right dipstick crouching down in it amongst the gorse right next to a public footpath...
The weather was closing in, it being quite overcast and the damp, muggy atmosphere rapidly turned to drizzle and then full on rain by the time I left.
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One of my colleagues, SusanNOTSue, taught several different subjects within the Science Department. One of them was a course on Ethics. I gave her this as a possible assignment for her students:
Image you are the older sibling of a sophomore named John. You still remember the time he shot you in the back with his BB gun when you tried to change the channel on TV a few years ago. Now you have found a letter in his room that has come in the mail. Apparently he does not want your father to see it.
The letter reads:
John’s capable of doing adequate work but seldom does. His attitude is much too immature and lackadaisical for a tenth grader. The world is lots of fun and unpleasant facts will go away if you just ignore them. Unfortunately his most unpleasant fact at this stage is 29 required lab exercises of which he has completed 7 fairly adequately, 9 others have been returned to him as unsatisfactory, and the rest have not been written up at all. If these are not completed very shortly they must be listed as failures rather than incompletes. That would make his average somewhere down in the low 50’s at best, and the reports would still have to be done since they are state-required as a prerequisite for the Regents exam. Reminders and requests from the teacher elicit only shrugs or vague promises. I would suggest some firm and continued parental supervision and discipline.
Do you give the letter to your father or not? Explain why or why not.
Photo taken at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Model "Truck T13” is a fully brick build motorized and Infra Red remote controlled scale model resembling a Aussie style Euro semi-truck. Powered by a V8 engine with a displacement of 14.0 L with horsepower range from 400 up to 500. The truck’s modelled engine together with both front and rear axles, steps, air cylinders, battery box, fuel tanks and all electronic components are mounted to its realistic ladder frame.
This modelled engine is given its realistic looks with detailes such as: engine oil dipstick, fan, fan belt, pulleys, hoses, oil filters and a turbo. Together with much more engine bay details which are added the looks are phenomenal. These include break fluid reservoir, by-pass oil filter, windshield washer container and steering shaft.
Even more details are to be found in the drivers cabin. By opening the cabin doors one can can take a closer look. For the driver's comfort the interior has gauges, switches and comfortable seats. Other details are a angled dash and gauge panel, a steering wheel and a gear shift.
You could build it yourself too. Building instructions and inventory/parts list are available!
The truck’s features:
- solid front axle suspension
- tandem bogie rear axle suspension
- differentials for smooth cornering
- servo motor steering
- fully functional fifth wheel
- modeled engine
- detailed cabin interior
- realistic ladder frame
"Through the Eyes of Torres Vedras" #4
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
This one's not going anywhere either, but fascinating to look at. Such enviable simplicity; an oil-level sight gauge right next to the serial number (65653), no dipstick or VIN here. Electrical blocks mounted right to the firewall for easy testing which was good because it probably broke down a lot, and check out that "inner tube" on the driver's side - more rubber and etcetera than air!
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Christmas 2014: "Desert Weirdness"
December 29: An oasis of murals; calm before the storm in Joshua Tree.
"Mad Month" is a Collection of Images that relate to its Title...."MAD"
"M" stands for Minimal
"A " stands for Abstract
"D " stands for I don't know what yet?...…."Drunk", "Digital", "Daft", Dumb, Debonair, Donuts, Dingly Dell, Dynamic, Dopamine, Doctor Dolittle, Disaster, DaDa, Devil, Disguise, Distance, Donegal, Dope, Dinner, Dachau, Diabetic, Dali, Deli, Dildo, Drop Dead, Dead Drop, Funky Chicken, Dogmatic, Dog, Dachshund, Dork, Dill, Daffodil. Dresden, Dog, Dull, Dozy, Different. Delicate. Deer, Dear, Ditto, Dipstick, Dumbarton, Donald Duck, Demented, Dinosaur, Donkey, December, Dragon, Drachma, Dance, Disk, Duet, Dollar, Donald, Dunce, Happy Birthday Mum, Diamond, Demand, Desert, Dialog, Dance, Daddy, Decaf, Dipstick, Denmark, Dumpling,
I will think of a few Reasons as the Month progresses.
Lynn watching dawn at Lake Mcgregor. We took the camper van up some very narrow tracks to get here. One of the plans was to do some astrophotography that night since this is an area renown for its dark skies. Sadly it was cloudy and to make matters worse a load of dipsticks turned up in the dark in vans and cars and spent until the small hours shouting and endlessly banging car doors. Since this place is really in the 'back of beyond' this behaviour was really unexpected and unwelcome. Just goes to show that wherever you go in the world there's always some ******* spoiling it!