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Oh, now that's interesting, these trains must have been pre-production models, they've got proper bogies on them, bet they never reached production because they were deemed too fiddly for kids to put on the track
1987 Lewis Galoob toys. Got this one in Singapore in 1988 on my way to London. This one's American package version.
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant. The tomato is native to Central, South, and southern North America from Mexico to Peru. It is a perennial, often grown outdoors in temperate climates as an annual, typically reaching to 1–3 m (3 to 10 ft) in height, with a weak, woody stem that often vines over other plants.
The leaves are 10–25 cm long, odd pinnate, with 5–9 leaflets on petioles[1], each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1–2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3–12 together. The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum, means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple").
Early history
A variety of heirloom tomatoes.According to Andrew F Smith's The Tomato in America,[2] the tomato probably originated in the highlands of the west coast of South America. Although Smith notes there is no evidence the tomato was cultivated or even eaten before the Spanish arrived, this thesis is also questionable. Other researchers have pointed out that many other fruits in continuous cultivation in Peru are not present in the very limited historical record. Much horticultural knowledge was lost after the arrival of Europeans.
There is a competing hypothesis that says the tomato, like the word "tomato", originated in Mexico, where one of the two apparently oldest "wild" types grows. It is entirely possible that domestication even arose in both regions independently. Diversity data suggests the center of diversity for wild tomatoes is located in Peru, while the that of cultivated tomatoes, in Mexico. Thus, it can be hypothesized that wild tomatoes were introduced from Peru to Mexico, where they were domesticated.
In any case, by some means the tomato migrated to Central America. Maya and other peoples in the region used the fruit in their cooking, and it was being cultivated in southern Mexico and probably other areas, by the 16th century. It is thought that the Pueblo people believed those who witnessed the ingestion of tomato seeds were blessed with powers of divination. The large, lumpy tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated and was encouraged in Central America. Smith states this variant is the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes.
Two modern tomato cultivar groups, one represented by the Matt's Wild Cherry tomato, the other by currant tomatoes, both originate by recent domestication of the wild tomato plants apparently native to eastern Mexico.
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my NEW SET, "Weed Flower Micros – II:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157627844487270/
And peruse 400 photos in my original set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
Just a little sketch I put together in LDD. Kinda resembles the ship that flies around the Classic Space logo.
This teeny tiny swoon block finishes at 2" square - which means the HSTs finish at 1/4"!! I set it on point inside a thing pink border and matchstick quilted it with some variegated thread.
Read more here: www.13spools.com/2014/06/naptown-stitchers-micro-swoon.html
Keeping with tradition I made a miniature version of this years Lego display. Really happy with how this one turned out especially the truck. It was very difficult trying to get the details I wanted but I got there in the end. I really enjoy the problem solving that comes with building miniatures even if I do pull some hair out along the way.
Here's my finished entry for the Eurobricks “to sail the technic sea”-contest: A small port, with 9 functions, all powered by a single XL-motor, and just 17x21 studs small! You can control the functions with the switches in front of the actual port. Each switch resembles one function, but all switches are
This micro port has 9 functions. 6 are controlled by driving rings, 2 pneumatic, and the last one is running constantly. I marked all of them at the picture below.
1. Left crane back and forth
2. Left crane up and down
3. Left crane open and close (pneumatic)
4. Right crane up and down
5. Right crane turning
6. Right crane open and close (pneumatic)
7. Transport car back and forth
8. Boat forward and backward
9. Pneumatic pump
Also, please watch the video on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyG6SEGe65g
Like crack cocain for the tiny house builder. This book kept me awake half the night revisiting my desire to build something. I so loved Deek's first book because it was filled with such playfulness and imagination. This book with its full color pictures and eclectic sensibilities is even more inspiring. Still there are his comic book drawings of wacky shelter ideas, but the pictures of the actual building feats are so deliciously real that my mind enters another realm.
The book distinguishes itself with a broad scope of buildings from simple shacks to ones on trailers to tree houses to push carts. Not only is it a collection of notable like minded shelters across the country, but it includes many of Deek's own wonderful builds. Deek delights the eye with his sense of color and design. Coupled with his frugal salvage-collecting sensibilities every project embodies an eco ethic and available-materials driven direction that makes every build a unique work of art.
The handful of solution oriented plans at the end push the envelope as to what it is possible to live in in terms of real world utility. In particular the Woodsy Wagon pushcart and the Permatent with its outside kitchen and shower that inspired my rethinking of my own vision. These plans drawn up by Deek and others conjure up the spirit of the tiny house community in terms of a larger movement. But this is the book that really makes me want to get up and build something for the pure joy of it. Deek shows me in photos of every detail of these micro shelters and in his layman's terms (and plenty of made up ones too), convinces me how easily it can be done.
New Set of Super Suckpegs based on the Timeless characters from the MICROSEXUALS video series.
Watch the raunchy new episode
"THE PITCH" here:
And Score your Suckpegs here:
A rare sighting in a Scanning Electron Microscope, behold the Micro Unicorn!
Courtesy of Dr. Joshua Schumacher
Image Details
Instrument used: Helios NanoLab
Magnification: 6500
Horizontal Field Width: 23.0
Voltage: 5 kV
Working Distance: 4.0
Detector: ETD SE
This teeny tiny swoon block finishes at 2" square - which means the HSTs finish at 1/4"!! I set it on point inside a thing pink border and matchstick quilted it with some variegated thread.
Read more here: www.13spools.com/2014/06/naptown-stitchers-micro-swoon.html