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Added in the extreme red Ludwigia SP from the dismantled 120P today. Unfortunatelly the HC carpet lifted up so i had to put some weight on it :)
Check the Dragon stone which is still spotless after the Twinstar operation.
St James Green is just one of the many greens in Southwold, Suffolk which is also unusual in having a lighthouse within the town. The town is very different to the one I knew as a child and now over a third of the dwellings are "second homes".
I think Stepney Green can easily take the award for the shabbiest station on the London Underground.
D-stock unit 7109 leads a train for Upminster into the eastbound platform.
Caught in flight, displaying its violet ear patch.
For all hummingbird flash shots taken throughout our Costa Rican workshop, I am indebted to our leader, Dave Hemmings for the use of his camera and lens, kindly loaned because my equipment did not sync with the flash set-up. Natures Photo Adventures is the name to keep in mind!
POLITICAL BROUHAHA IN A METROPOLITAN FOG PATCH
Baroness Vadera, UK Business Minister, controversially claimed today to see green shoots of economic recovery and justified the claim because a big bond issue succeeded in the City (after so many earlier ones have gone nowhere). It seems that Tesco is continuing to open new stores and hire new staff; so some of us must be buying food (though maybe less of the Finest) along with cheaper-than-ever TVs to replace meals out and West End shows... and to monitor news of the credit crunch. But the Economy is shrinking (The ONS and the Daily Mail actually contrive to agree on that) ONS and Purchasing Managers are ordering less from manufacturers. House prices continue a downward trend and the oil price is 74% down on a year ago (though we have not felt all the gain because the Treasury is trying to pay for all its new obligations by not reducing the tax burden on it except in proportional line with the pump price)..
Her claim about green shoots invited political derision from the Tory Party (whose Chancellor carelessly used the expression during another lesser downturn nearly 20 years ago) plus embarrased wriggles from Peter Mandelson.. Perhaps she is in for some gardening leave. But my Kentish green shoots are visibly real and growing, even if they slow in the next inevitable cold snap. Nature's cycle is on the up and the days ARE getting steadily longer. It was bright and sunny in Kent while Westminster was shrouded in fog today. But it's still pretty dark till 8AM and at 4PM and there's a long way to go. The banking crisis-led economic downturn still has a away to go...... as have the prospects for any green shoots of political recovery for the Labour Party.
Meanwhile, I do love the smell of hyacinths and the bright Easter glow of daffodils and tulips. So smile and keep spending, at least on fertilizer, and use your unemployed hours to grow turnips for your suppers! This may not be the only natural cyclical winter before the next Economic Spring. But we can still enjoy carrot stews year round and maybe assemble around our long-disused card-games and pianos as a source of cheer to replace our exotic foreign holidays. Thought of joining a local yoga class or choir to get on tip-top condition in time for the next year you can afford to vist the Euro zone? or maybe it's time to stay home and make babies or nurture your grand-children. But remember that they are a long-term commitment and you mustn't repeat the illusion that you can borrow to finance your kids' futures. or even your own. Happy 2009... and 2010 .... and 2011... and all nature's summers before the next frothy self-delusional economic one!
Oh... and HOPE also arrives next week in the over-burdened form of President Obama. What a raw moment for a new deal!
blogs.ft.com/westminster/2009/01/echoes-of-norman-lamont-...
Signalbox diagram from Palmers Green
I have digitally restored the image.
Image courtesy of Richard Pike.
I made a third visit of the year to this site on a beautiful hot sunny day. My main targets were the 2 early skippers.
I see the occasional green hairstreak here too but do not expect to see one. This is really a recod of the occassion.
Although red seems to have a preferential treatment during Christmas season, Christmas is about green too! And very rightly so - after all, green is the color of hope, the color associated with the continuous rebirth of Nature itself...
While we celebrate red, we shouldn't forget about green!..
Merry Christmas!..
"Explored" on December 25, 2007.
The ferns and moss were a plenty while walking through Pearson's Falls and Glen in Saluda NC. Beauty every-which way you turned!
There was a story I read as a child; The Green Ribbon. It was about a very beautiful little girl who always wore a green ribbon around her neck...
"Once there was a girl named Jenny. She was like all the other girls, except for one thing. She always wore a green ribbon around her neck. There was a boy named Alfred in her class. Alfred liked Jenny and Jenny liked Alfred. One day he asked her, “Why do you wear that ribbon all the time?”
“I cannot tell you,” said Jenny. But Alfred kept asking, “Why do you wear it?” And Jenny would say, “It is not important.” Jenny and Alfred grew up and fell in love. One day they got married. After their wedding, Alfred said, “Now that we are married, you must tell me about the green ribbon.” “You still must wait,” said Jenny. “I will tell you when the right time comes.”
Years passed. Alfred and Jenny grew old. One day Jenny became very sick. The doctor told her she was dying. Jenny called Alfred to her side. “Alfred,” she said, “now I can tell you about the green ribbon. Untie it, and you will see why I could not tell you before.”
Slowly and carefully, Alfred untied the ribbon...
...and Jenny’s head fell off."
For the Challenge of the Dutch forum the theme for March is GREEN.
And last years I made so many bangles in ehm........shades of greeeeeen!
Moss-green, olive-gold-green, limegreen, kiwigreen, enz (but never right out of the clay-package....I alway mix with green, yellow and blue untill I get the perfect tint of green *rolls with eyes*
So I just made a collage of my bangles.
They are chronological in order: the bangle left-upper-corner is made July 2009 and the bangle in the lower-middle is made last week :)
All of them a completely made of polymerclay, no other base or metals :)
1. Polymerclay mokume gane (meeting) with dark green, 2. Bangle, "Herfst" premo and fimo, 3. Not available, 4. Bangle premo, 1001 nights, 5. Bangle "Ilsy Poppins", 6. Bangle 1002 Nights, 7. BangleSet, 8. 2 of 2013: Ex`cen´tric bangle, 9. Plumeria
SOLD, acrylic on canvas sheet, 5.5 x 5.5 inches
Prints and greeting cards are available
on Fine Art America (address is in my profile)
He was sitting under the footbridge about 6 feet from me. They seem to feel secure with some barrier between us. This time as I shot, a man with a stroller crossed the bridge and the noise and activity was too much. Two shots and he flew off.
I think green is beautiful!
Cropped from a 200mm hand-held shot using a Canon 70-200mm f/4L lens mounted on Rebel XT (350D). Set at ISO100, everything else was auto and quickly fired before he ran away!
Audrey Hepburn & Anthony Perkins - French Poster
See also:
careaboutmusicandfilm.blogspot.com/2016/05/green-mansions...