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i am still waiting for the spring, so if he is not outside i got him into my house with mountains of tulips.
to zoo or not to zoo... that is the question!
We did see Moloch Gibbons leaping around having fun, but we also saw this guy. Now I know we can anthropomorphise animals but to me he was sadness personified!
This shot works for me because the eyes are split across the link in the fence. See below for one where the framing is slightly different.
Poor Bogart has a sore leg right now. That's hard on a three-legged dog. We're not quite sure what happened, but he's in pain: he has a distinctive limp. Last time Bogart's leg hurt, it was because he tripped over a cat. . . who knows if something similar happened this time. Bogart is pretty much confined to the house right now. The longest walk he's had in several days is down to the end of the driveway and back. Poor boy. I have him on an NSAID right now, but we have to be careful with that. . . those can be really hard on dogs. Psychologically, a dog like Bogart needs exercise. He's doing remarkably well for not burning off excess energy, but he's definitely not as content these days. . .
[SOOC, f/1.4, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/200, +2 EV]
Explore February 28th 2009 #433
These delicious beans symbolize summer for me. They are great, straight off the plant if they are very young.
Later, they develop a lectin, or hemagglutinin toxin and should be cooked before eating.
"Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
"Be strong, fear not!
Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you."
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
then shall the lame man leap like a hart,
and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy"
- Isaiah 35:4-6, which is part of today's First Reading at Mass.
Detail from a window by Sir Ninian Comper, c.1929 in Southwark Cathedral.
LOCATION ; LAKE BATUR - BANGLI - BALI
CANON EOS : 500D
F STOP ; 7.1
EXPOSURE : 1/800 sec
ISO ; 200
Lense : TOKINA 10-17mm
FL : 10mm
Near the Columbia River on the Washington side between Portland and the Dalles. This is a wildlife sanctuary, Schreiner Farms, with a short road you can drive on to see the penned in animals. The entrance is just east of Murdock, WA, across the river from The Dalles, OR. If you want to read more about this zebra, go here. According to the site they are Plains Zebra called Damara. They inhabit the plains regions from southern Sudan and southern Ethiopia through eastern Africa to southern and southwestern Africa.
He was holding me
The last time we watched sunset
Now he's far away
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37/52 ~ 52 Haikus Group (9/13/09)
Longing for Medina This typical calendar image of Mecca and Medina shrines has something unique: bleeding pigeons - probably symbolizing the artist's (and devotee's) longing and inability to visit Medina. Not to miss the artist's byline at the bottom: Balkrishna. (The symbol of bleeding pigeons has also been noticed in Christian iconography).
1/100 Elyn Kshatriya
1/100 Elyn Gatling Guns x 4
Custom decals laid out by Dade W. Bell and printed by Samuel.
Custom mixed paint scheme with 12 layers of paint for both candy purple colors.
Paints are Gaia, Gunze, Vallejo, and Citadel.
This project took FOREVER and I frankly stopped keeping track of the hours once I hit 150. This is mainly due to all of the paint layers required to give the proper shading and depth I was after. Plus the fact that I'm a slow builder. lol Note that I also went with my concept of painting the frame in a lighter color than the armor. We often see MS frames painted in dark and/ or metallic colors, but I thought it would look much more interesting if the frame was a light color contrasted with the darker "candy purple" armor (kinda like my Ple Qubeley). Also note how I went farther with the idea of making the finish matte. I think this adds an interesting appearance to the candy surface and is actually more realistic and less toy-like than the usual gloss finish seen on candy colors (contrast with my Ple Qubeley...).
The pictures truly don't do the real thing justice and I'll try to take better photos (and a video) with my D5100 outside when it cools down in the fall... Until then, I think these pics will suffice.
With this project done, I'm done building Kshatriyas. Too much of my life has been taken up with these things and it's time to move on. Still, I'm the "Ple Guy" so I had to at least make this one. ;-) (Wink) As for how Ple could end up piloting the Kshatriya, below is the story file I created to go on the base when I have a custom label printed later...
An Alternate Timeline...
In the original events of ZZ Gundam, Elpeo Ple sacrificed herself to protect Judau Ashta from the Psycho Gundam Mk-II piloted by her clone, Ple Two. However, in this alternate timeline, Glemy Toto’s attempts to clone Ple failed... and as a result, Ple didn’t die at the hands of her now-nonexistent clone. Thus, the “butterfly effect” of the changed timeline allowed Ple to survive the First Neo-Zeon War.
With the First Neo Zeon War over, Ple headed to Jupiter with Judau and Roux, but eventually grew bored with her relatively peaceful life (not to mention her “third-wheel” status with her friends), and decided to return to the Earth Sphere. During the long voyage home, she was disappointed to find that she missed the events of the Second Neo-Zeon War (Char’s Counterattack), and vowed to never miss out on any further action.
So when Ple heard about Full Frontal’s group of Neo-Zeon remnants, The Sleeves, she joined them without hesitation (and received the customized purple Kshatriya for her personal MS). This was because of a longing for excitement more than any kind of belief in Neo-Zeon ideology, and the battlefield was once again filled with the giddy shout of, “Purupurupurupuru!”. However, she quickly switched sides when she discovered that Frontal was merely using her as a “test” against the Unicorn Gundam’s NT-D system (her ability to defeat her own NT-D-controlled funnels and fight the Unicorn to a standstill is a significant departure from the original timeline).
Being a natural Newtype and not subject to the side-effects of the Cyber-Newtype process (complicated by the horrible events of childhood), Ple was able to avoid most of the unfortunate, and ultimately fatal, events that befell her clone, Marida Cruz (Ple Twelve), in the original timeline. As a result, she and the Kshatriya were able to survive the Third Neo-Zeon war relatively unharmed... a feat for which she rewarded herself with a nice, long bubble bath.
playing around with photoshop using a pic that's not mine. It was found online and is, well porn. I'll leave it up to your imagination to figure out what was going on in the original.