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Went to a small flea market this weekend and found some doll scale kitchen minis and a cute Dale doll (Dawn's friend). All bargains from the same seller. Dale was $10 and the metal minis were $5.
The cookie cutters and the measuring cups are not doll scale, but still cute. I thought the cookie cutters could be used with American Girl dolls or just nice additions to my vintage cookie cutter collection. I have a bunch of larger animals and holiday shapes like these with the little handle.
Camera Leica M6
Lens Summicron-M 50/2
Film Eastman Kodak Double-X 5222
Dev. Kodak HC-110 (B), 6 min., 20ºC
Even though this beetle was tiny, it was hard to miss! Photographed in the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge, Wisconsin.
Labadee, Haiti
The Haitian flea market contains shops and stalls offering local arts and crafts, coffee and cognac. Alongside an informal local artisan's market has grown up, the colourful merchandise consisting of everything imaginable from baskets and beads to carvings and clothing. Bartering is expected, and adds to the fun, the norm being to start negotiating at around half the asking price.
A shot from the time when the flea market was organised on the main square in Krakow. This trader was worried about lack of customers.
Quite an old photo - 2003 back then I didn't know that what I was doing some people called ‘street photography’. :)
I was using my first serious digital camera then: Olympus E-20p
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Olympus E-20p
Sumac flea beetles, Blephardia rhois, on skunkbrush sumac, Rhus trilobata. These beetles have larvae that feed on this host, and the larvae have fecal shields to protect themselves from predators. Thanks to Steve Mlodinow for the tip on where these beetles were feeding.
Snow fleas were on the trail yesterday, in a melted puddle. The white is graupel that was falling now and then. For some reason, I think these guys are cute. I'm not sure why a couple of them are orange and not black. I read that they are hexapods and produce an anti-freeze that allows them to be out on the snow in winter. Otherwise, they're around all year on the soil but not as visible.
Family: Chrysomelidae. Subfamily: Galerucinae. Tribe: Alticini. Species: Disonycha uniguttata (Say, 1824). (Arlington, MA)
Over at the Brimfield Massachusetts Antique Fair and Flea Market which occurs three times a year is one of the largest of it's type in the country where it occurs three times a year. Once in spring, summer and fall and lasts about a week where several hundred vendors over several acres sell a wide variety of goods, Luckily for me and my wife it's only about 140 miles away from NYC and only 70 miles from Boston making it just within reasonable day trip range although it takes an exhausting several hours to give all the vendors a serious look over. Along the road this guy was trying to draw people into one small area.