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"The party broke up. I helped the girl into her coat. She was standing immediately in front of me, lithely moving her shoulders to receive the cloak, her head thrown back and turned aside, her lips slightly open with a smile that was meant for no one directed to the ceiling. I lowered the cloak an instant. Where had my eyes been all this time? I suddenly understood Lenz's enthusiasm."
Three Comrades, Remarque.
Lighting: two bare SB-800, placed high and far away from the model. Front lighting is come from the white wall behind the camera. It reflects strong light from the these flashe
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LOCATION: Wynn's Winter Wonderland, Beauty Forest:
Scanned IR print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter (cutting @ 700 nm).
Morning of Oct 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adox Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Printed on Foma Fomatone 132 FB and developed in Moersch SE2 Warmtone.
Toned in Se 1+9, 30 sec.
Such a disappointment. The first Fomatone batch I bought before I really understood that this epic paper wasn't lithable anymore. Thanks for the information, Wolfgang.
But that dosen't mean that the paper is worthless, of course not.
It's still a very good warm tone FB paper, and as such, responds very well to Se toning. Which is obvious if you're looking at this one. How to get morning to look like night :-)
The theme today is taking four lines from Dorothea Mackellar's patriotic poem, "My Country". Mackellar was just 19 and homesick in London when she started writing this poem in 1904. It was first published in The Spectator in 1908. Here is the complete version, originally titled, "Core of My Heart":
"The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly."
Música (abrir en nueva pestaña) / Music (Open link in new tab): Nightnoise - Hugh
Un viejo trillo, entre las ruinas de una aldea abandonada. Se trata de un antiguo útil agrícola que se utilizaba para separar el grano de la paja de los cereales, es decir, para trillar. Está formado por una tabla gruesa, con una forma entre rectangular y trapezoidal, hecha con varios listones de madera y con la parte frontal algo más estrecha y curvada hacia arriba (semejante a un trineo). Su parte inferior está repleta de afiladas lascas de sílex incrustadas, que actúan a modo de cuchillas.
Todo hace indicar que éste que se muestra en la imagen, una vez acabada su vida útil como trillo, probablemente pudo haber sido modificado y adaptado para ser utilizado como una puerta.
-English:
An old threshing board in an abandoned and decaying deserted hamlet. It is an obsolete agricultural implement used to separate cereals from their straw, that is, to thresh. It consists of a thick board with a shape between rectangular and trapezoidal, made with a variety of slats, with the frontal part somewhat narrower and curved upward (like a sled or sledge) and whose bottom is covered with lithic flakes.
Everything suggests that this one showed in the picture, at the end of its useful life as a threshing board, could probably have been modified and adapted to be used as a door.
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Recently found on a net auction here in Sweden. Does anyone have info about this old paper? Lithable? All clues are welcome! Opened, so at this time I have no idea whether it's usable or not.
Otters are one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish, waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as a 'holt'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm and can close their ears and nose when underwater.
"Silent, but deadly."
What??
"I'm The Ninja. Silent. Deadly."
I think you need a different catchphrase.
"The Death Wraith of the Darkness."
That's certainly better.
Weren't you here before? *
"Yes. But I'm sure you notice, I've bulked up. I've been hitting the weight room."
Is that really a ninja look? I thought you guys were slim and lithe, for skittering across rooftops and such.
You look like you'd fall through the rooftop.
"I've added power to my stealth."
Are you sucking in your gut and flexing??
Also, your previous outfit was more ninjaesque. This lavender ain't cutting it.
"Like a quiet fatal whisper in the wind, I slay my opponents. Lavender is a calming smell. He who smelt it dealt it."
Oh, come on!!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
M.U.S.C.L.E. No. 96, "The Ninja B"
Painted by Paprika, thus losing all collectible value forever.
* He was! Back in BP 2021 Day 116!
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Scanned lith print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 120 mm/f4 macro.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Kodak Polyprint RC surface E and developed in Moersch Eaysy Lith (15A+15B+H2Oqs600).
Untoned.
PS borders.
Still lithable old paper.
A macro photography idea with Glycerol, a CD and a Nut with a pattern.
A cliff of ignimbrite rises near Ponta do Mistério on the Island of Terceira in the Azores. Ignimbrites are deposited by very hot clouds of ash; pumice, lithic blocks/fragment and gases. Called pyroclastic flows by geologists, these flows are dense and because of their density, hug the ground at high speeds. The volcanic cone rising behind the cliff in the fog is part of the volcanic complex associated with the Pico Alto volcano.
It isnt touched up or anything, it's as is. The first sketch Ive EVER done where I've just left it as is and actually put effort into shading it. It's an old OC from when I was in 7th grade. I havent drawn her in over 4 years lol. I think this is all right for a first attempt in 4 years.
She's intentionally lithe and sparse looking with stubby wings because she is more of a dart when it comes to flying. Quick and maneuverable, she doesnt necessarily glide as much as she flutters or dives at hight speeds.
Ill be coloring her in Photoshop lata, no way Im screwing it up by trying to color with pencils.
**She's a wolf gryphon, if thats even possible, if not, its a product of my imagination. She retains almost no feline in her, evident by the look of the paws and skeletal structure.
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Scan of a lithed print done on old Emaks 883 paper from Photokemika.
Leica M6, Summicron 35, unknown film
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Skin: theSkinnery {Francesca}
Freckles: Izzie's {Catwa Freckles Applier}
Eyes: Suicidal Unborn {Phantom Eyes V2}
Eyeliner: Okkbye {Essentials Eyeliner}
Lashes: Okkbye {Fluttering Falsies}
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Here’s a cluster of doorways at a convergence of corridors in the old psych center, which is a rotted labyrinth. Warm late-afternoon sunlight is coming in from the right, cool light coming in from the east, where a nearly full moon will soon rise.
This photo is memorable to me for what you don’t see: Six or seven teenagers walking through as I shot the image. If you look at the warm shaft of light on the floor, you can see the ghostly shadows of their sneakers as they head toward the stairs off camera left.
It was an absurd scene, really … A squad of well-off suburban kids each with hundreds of dollars worth of clothing on their lithe young bodies and a combined $100,000 worth of orthodontia work in their perfect mouths, off on what passes for a risky adventure in this part of the world.
I heard them coming but they had no clue I was there. The one in the lead was some sort of tour guide, yammering away as they progressed. When she saw me, she let out a piercing scream, jumped waaaay up, came down, bounced twice, and dropped into a squat with her face in her hands. After she was sure everyone had seen her performance, she got back up and continued her tour. All within the 30 seconds of this exposure.
I am very happy to introduce you my new line BiDoll Lithe. The dolls in this line possess a different type of sexuality, they look tall and skinny. The name BiDoll consists of two parts. Bi translated from Latin means “two” or “double”. When I worked on Lithe characters the double meaning inspired me. I wanted to create two dolls that are different and the same at once. The unicorn, the legendary and magical creature, also inspired me. MonokeRos is one of the names for unicorn that people used from ancient times. It sounded to me that the name consists of two - Monoke and Ros, and I decided to give these names to my new dolls. At the very beginning my goal was to create a complex costumed doll using different techniques such as jewelry making, embroidery, etc. I believe that my goal is accomplished. The costume is very complicated and the embroidery was done over the tiny mesh fabric. Over 100 hours of work was spent on embroidery only. The corset, shoes and the crown are made from metal and gold plated with 18K gold. BiDoll Lithe MonokeRos is a piece of art that made in porcelain, painted with China paints, it comprises the jewelry making and fashion design techniques. MonokeRos is a synthesis of many arts and designs in one object. I am very happy that I could use all my skills in one work and show many sides in the art of making a doll. Please enjoy, one of the dolls of your choice can be yours.
In the tranquil embrace of a sunlit lagoon, the flamingo stands as a living brushstroke of elegance and grace. Its slender, sinuous neck curves like a delicate question mark, poised in perpetual inquiry. Feathers, a symphony of blush and coral, cascade down its lithe frame, each plume a whisper of the dawn’s first light.
CLASS: Aves (Birds)
ORDER: Phoenicopteriformes
FAMILY: Phoenicopteridae
GENUS AND SPECIES: Phoenicopterus roseus (greater flamingo), Phoenicopterus chilensis (Chilean flamingo), Phoeniconaias minor (lesser flamingo), Phoenicoparrus andinus (Andean flamingo), Phoenicoparrus jamesi (puna or James’s flamingo), Phoenicopterus ruber (American or Caribbean flamingo)
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These pictures from 2024 were taken on one of my best days. As well as the outline of a Large Blue Eye with a distinct blue spherical both iris and pupil there is a shadow at the left centre which casts very interesting even symbolic shades. The Witches' Stone just at the edge of the village of Spott is a good memorial of bad times and deeds. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt no more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
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Witches of Scotland is a campaign for justice; for a legal pardon, an apology and national monument for the thousands of people – mostly women - that were convicted of witchcraft and executed between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland.
The Witches of Scotland Limited. This tartan can be worn by anyone.
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Witches of Scotland podcast
Claire Mitchell QC and Zoe Venditozzi, Author co-host the Witches of Scotland podcast. Over the forthcoming weeks we hope to bring you interviews from those who know about the history, law and stories of those accused of witchcraft. Join our mailing list and we will let you know when a new podcast is out.
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Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
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Photo Taken @ The Heights
TREES
What trees try to say
in their slow silence, their vague murmuring,
the sense they have, there where they are,
the reverence, the resonance, the transparency
and the bright and shadowy accents of an airy phrase.
And the shade and the leaves are the innocence of an idea
that between water and space turned itself to lithe integrity.
Beneath the magic breath of the light they are transparent boats.
I don’t know if it’s air or blood budding from their boughs.
I hear the finest foam of their green throats.
I am not, never will be, far from that pure water
and those ancient lamps of hidden isles.
What pure serenity of memory, what horizons
surrounding the silent well! It is a song in sleep
and the wind and light are the breath of a child
who upon a bough of a tree embraces the world.
Antonio Ramos Rosa
Translation: Alexis Levitin
Volcanic gases rise from the active lava lake in "Overlook Crater " that lies within the Halema‘uma‘u Crater on Kīlauea's summit on the Island of Hawai'i. This is a case of a crater inside a crater with "Overlook Crater" inside Halema‘uma‘u Crater wich is in turn inside Kilauea's Summit Crater. This eruptive stage of Halema‘uma‘u Crater started with earthquake and fumerolic activitiy in late 2007. Increasing gas emission rates in early 2008 produced high concentrations of sulfur dioxide around the Halema‘uma‘u parking lot. For this reason, the National Park closed the western portion of Crater Rim Drive to the public on February 20, 2008. The first signs of change on the surface occurred on March 12, 2008, when a fumarolic area abruptly appeared on the south wall of Halema‘uma‘u, directly below the Halema‘uma‘u Overlook. This fumarolic area, emitting a thick gas plume, enlarged over subsequent days and was incandescent (glowing) at night.
At 2:58 am on the morning of March 19, 2008 an earthquake was measured, The quake was coincident with collapse of the fumarolic area near the overlook. A new, small crater formed from this collapse, which was also associated with an explosive eruption of lithic blocks. The new crater was informally called the "Overlook crater". Over the next few years the eruption continued with a lava lake forming in the crater. The level of the lava lake flucuated with time. It wasn't until 2017, however, that lava spilled from the crater on to the floor of its host, the the Halema‘uma‘u Crater. So far there has been continous eruptive activity from 2008 until this photo was taken in Dec 2017.
Halema‘uma‘u Crater is clearly seen in the photo. The "Overlook Crater" is inside the older crater and is not visible in this view. In Hawaiian History, Halema‘uma‘u was considered to be the home of Madame Pele, the Fire Goddess, who is the goddess of fire, lightning, wind and volcanoes and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands. The photo was taken from The Volcano House, a hotel, in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
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So I was trying to nail the focus on this male waterliliy reed beetle (Donacia crassipes) on a lily pad in spite of it bouncing up and down on the water (even small waves become an issue when shooting at the macro scale).
Anyways, to my surprise he must have felt an itch on his back or something, because he somehow pulled back both hind legs and sort of scratched on the elytra with them. No real idea why, but hey - I got him in focus!
Right this will be my last Balmedie stream photograph for a while - i promise! :D
Not much more to say about this location if you have read the description of the last few photos so all I am going to say about this one is that it was taken from the top of the bank over looking the outflow. I framed it to accentuate the lithe curve of the water flowing out to sea. Taken as soon as I arrived on the beach so prob around 50 minutes before sunrise - colours getting pretty vivid!!! :P
Also - the slightly odd (oversharpened) looking FG sand is not overharpened just pure white frost highlighting the edges.
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Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) uses its tail for leverage as it lands in Currumbin Creek after leaping from the rocky shore. Despite the beautiful plumage display and the lithe hydrodynamic body once in the water, this leap became an ungainly bellyflop.
Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter.
July 1, 2023.
Rollei IR 400 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Rollei Vintage 332 RC and developed in Moersch SE5 (20A+20B+100OB+H2Oqs700) + Moersch Lith Omega 1+100, 90 sec.
Untoned.
PS borders.
Now when the last in present day produced lithable paper (Fomatone) is gone (forever?), I'm glad I bought some Rollei Vintage 16x20" a couple of years ago when macodirect.de had a sale. That lithable paper is of course also gone now. Spent the early morning hours cutting down the sheets to 8x10" (80 pcs per 20-pack :-)).
BTW, this is a Rollei hattrick, in case you didn't notice ;-D
Scanned Lith/Moersch Polychrome print.
Mamiya 645 ProTL w/ M-S 45 mm/f2.8.
Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
An early summer morning a couple of years ago...
Lith printed on Fomatone MG 131 (old school = lithable!) and developed in two baths:
1. Moersch Easy Lith 1+10.
2. Siena 25+Ammonium Chloride 15+Potassium Carbonate 15+H2Oqs600).
Toned in Se 1+9, 60 sec.
PS borders.
Larbergs Gård, Hammarö, Sweden.
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Some antagonism to the stacking of rocks exists. Apparently it'll ruin everything.
Newscaster on the sub-etha network: We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.¹
Righto. Is stacking rocks the reason for the downfall of Europe's Neolithic peoples? If the Khmer people hadn't piled up Angkor Wat…? The Incan and Meso-American cultures, Egyptians, the builders of Great Zimbabwe…all victims of their own gravity-defying efforts?
They say it's unnatural. We've seen it all before. It's happened in libraries, and we all know how uppity common folk become once they get notions from books…
Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Peter Venkman: You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.²
On a personal level, my awareness of widespread lithic gravity defiance commenced in New Zealand. I was largely smitten. Potentially in a minority, my meditations on deep time inform an opinion that human-sponsored rock stacking on most scales are nothing more than ephemeral art.
I can tell you that Nature is ignorant of land managers' concerns that ricketty vertical stony assemblages will destroy the romance of being without them. She has her own way of swatting away such nonsense while at the same time being untutored. Those impressive works along Bruce Bay are, well, gone. They are ex-assemblages. Gravity and the lateral forces of sea and sky with perhaps the occasional seismic adjustment have obliterated that civilisation-ending anarchy.
Back across the ditch… Oh no the contagion! On my own sacred coast, in a remote national park, this pillar of defiance. Now, here in the foothills of those wild ranges that keep drawing me back, on the migratory sands of the third longest domestic river, not some creek, some piddling little drain but a roughly 1500 km counduit from the mountains to the sea, there they are again. That's the point. Those shifting sands, this up and down, feast or famine flood will see this gone in a not distant tomorrow.
Enjoy it while you can!
¹ Douglas Adams: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
² Ghostbusters
Parked next to another abomination. Nice when the drvers of something lithe park next to something hideous and large; makes for easy photos. Notice the Dino lurking to the left - I was quite sated at this point and neglected to photograph it.
Don't know anything about this Super Seven aside from it being a Caterham, it is registered as a 2016 home-built vehicle with a NYS-issued serial number. In the Greenwich Concours parking lot.
These pictures from 2024 were taken on one of my best days. As well as the outline of a Large Blue Eye with a distinct blue spherical both iris and pupil there is a shadow at the left centre which casts very interesting even symbolic shades. The Witches' Stone just at the edge of the village of Spott is a good memorial of bad times and deeds. The Witches’ Stone always fills me with commemoration and remembrance of times not so long gone when Witch Hunts were after witches so upsettingly so that we still use the term Witch Hunt no more than ever for a falsely fuelled over active hunt often with vicious entanglements and outcomes.
The Witches’ Stone is on the East of Spott village and Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone is at the West of the village. In the village at the Church you can find The Jougs. From standing stone in the East past central stone church to a commemorative stone in the West there are three superb historic lithic sites. The Church has been a focal site to inspire and to contain history of the area and along with local archives there are some superb historic collections, myriad connections, and local recollections.
There are three tall Standing Stones near Spott, Easter Broomhouse, Pencraig Hill and Kirklandhill Standing Stones. Their placement in the landscape of natural bounties and hill forts is a key to some of the smaller monuments, This coastal area is full of life from the sea and the land and the stones stretch into the sky that keeps the seas calm and the lands fertile.
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Witches of Scotland is a campaign for justice; for a legal pardon, an apology and national monument for the thousands of people – mostly women - that were convicted of witchcraft and executed between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland.
The Witches of Scotland Limited. This tartan can be worn by anyone.
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Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Easter Broomhouse - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Lothian
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6706
Spott Church
www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/spott-parish-chu...
Welcome to Belhaven and Spott Parish Church
Witches' Stone, Spott
canmore.org.uk/site/57667/witches-stone-spott
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/57622/easter-broomhouse
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
canmore.org.uk/site/56240/pencraig-hill
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html
Witches' Stone, Spott
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8239
Easter Broomhouse Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1492/easter_broomhouse_...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1494/pencraig_hill_stan...
Pencraig Hill Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6703
Kirklandhill Standing Stone
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1493/kirklandhill_stand...
Recently found on a net auction here in Sweden. Does anyone have info about this old paper? Lithable? All clues are welcome! Opened, so at this time I have no idea whether it's usable or not.
Otters are one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish, waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as a 'holt'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm and can close their ears and nose when underwater.