After a busy old day (again) in the garden - front and back - I eventually stopped for the day with just enough time to clean myself up before preparing dinner! My wife is working this evening (nurses never stop working) so I thought I would make her a quick meal.

Vegetable stir-fry - fresh vegetables, noodles and a jar of sweet and sour (you didn't expect me to make the sauce!!) It was yummy!!

Our Daily Challenge ~ FAST FOOD .....

Thanks, in advance, to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.

Perler bead sprite of Ryuk from Death Note. I wasn't too happy with the colours available so I didn't iron it, just dumped it. :(

Notes about these pictures: Most of my Chemtrail pictures were taken in Dayton, Ohio--home of The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base -- final resting place of the Roswell aliens <:-0 -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting Chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and I have 1000's of pictures and videos since I began documenting Chemtrails regularly, in late 2014. The level of Chemtrail activity here is astonishing, and is being conducted, as they say, in plain sight. Looking back through my film archive of slides & negatives, I have convincing evidence of Chemtrailing activity back to the early 1990’s, and chemtraily-looking skies back to the early 1980’s.

I am designating all my Chemtrail pictures and videos uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. My goal is to make them available in the highest resolution possible, and without any image processing. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser".

I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share and use & improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem

[NOTE: Picture censored for Facebook/public consumption.]

We had a great time at Risque's Holi party at The Crucible! Good times.

Carolyn.

posing, smiling, standing.

body paint, holographic collar, spirals.

censored. edited. triptych.

The Crucible, Washington D.C.

March 10, 2018.

Pic by Larry Bradby.

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Yep, this is pretty much what I carry around with me. See da notes for details.

Note Tosca dress was shortened 10 inches. This is what I chose to wear today.

Notes: during the 1950s Katoomba Bowling Club had an active membership of over 150 players and competed with clubs from other Blue Mountain towns, there were also regular visiting players from Sydney and other NSW Country clubs

Format: silver gelatin negative, 4" x 5" (12.1 cm x 16.5 cm) Kodak Royal Pan

Date Range: 1957

Location: Katoomba

Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons

Repository: Blue Mountains Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au

Part of Local Studies Collection: SS 24-30

Provenance: Souvenir Snapshots

Links:

Katoomba Bowlers (1951, October 18). The Blue Mountains Advertiser (Katoomba, NSW : 1940 - 1954), p. 11. Retrieved October 5, 2021, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189745131

Mom makes the best soaps.

in her words

ann moss, soprano

alexa beattie, viola

hillary nordwell, piano

Notes: Toyokuni I "Two Lovers Hanging an Ode on a Cherry Blossom Tree".

Woodblock reproduction print in a faux bamboo frame = Japanese-themed Decorative Art

I’m going to be posting images from my Ukiyoe (Japanese woodblock print) collection like this example - over the next few days. I have notes on some of the prints (like artist attribution, and subject matter etc.), but I know very little about some of the other prints. So, whatever info or references you can share will be most welcome. Comments from other collectors and members of the Ukiyoe Collecting Community are welcome and encouraged.

© All Rights Reserved - Black Diamond Images

BDI Australian Beaches

Number One Beach is 1.3 km long and curves around on its southern end to face the northeast. Being protected by Seal Rocks Point. the beach offers a good 1-2m surf break in a southerly swell with offshore winds combining to effect the best conditions for surfing. The beach is unpatrolled and the Seal Rocks Camping Reserve is ideally located directly across the road from the beach with littoral rainforest backing the southern end.

To the north of the northern end of Number One Beach are five small pocket beaches ranging in size from 125 m to 275 m long. The beaches known as Number 2,3,4,5 and 6 beaches are only accessible by water or on foot through Myall Lakes National Park and are backed by forested hills rising steeply to over 100 m. Beyond these 5 small beaches lies the usually closed entrance to Smiths Lake at Sandbar and Celito Beach.

Seal Rocks formerly a quiet fishing village,is now more well known for it being one of the last bastions of the endangered Grey Nurse Shark.Numerous Dive Operators conduct commercial Dives to see these docile sharks.

Good dive sites at Seal Rocks include the 125 m long cargo steamer SS Satara which foundered on the Edith Breaker off Seal Rocks on the 10th April 1910 while on a voyage to Brisbane. No lives were lost and the SS Satara is now resting at on its port side in 42 m of water with the large prop and stern section sitting in an upright position along with the portholes, boilers, engine, propeller shaft, and piles of chains. The wreck is now home to a variety of reef and pelagic fish, Port Jackson, Grey Nurse, Wobbegong and Bronze Whaler sharks as well as sponges, ascidians, anemones and black coral trees. The wreck of the SS Satara was not discovered until 1984.

A number of other recommended dive locations can be found off Seal Rocks, including Skeleton Rocks, Little Seal Rock, Edith Breakers and the wreck of the 93 m long Catterthun, in 60 m of water.

The Catterthun was on a voyage from Sydney to Hong Kong when it ran into a storm off Seal Rocks. The ship foundered in the early hours of the 8th August 1895 with the loss of 31 lives. One lifeboat with 26 survivors made it safely to shore with assistance from a local sailing boat. Rescue efforts were hampered by the bad weather, and two more crewmen were found two days later in a lifeboat.

Note - Much more than the usual amount of driftwood and seaweed on the beach in these images due to the recent flooding events up and down the NSW Coast.

Note the broken windows.

Photos, sketches, tables and plans of Sheffield, England. Taken from the JR James Slide Collection.

I am working on lecture notes about Australian censorship and classification legislation and its impact in libraries .

The bit I am writing will only turn into about 3 paragraphs, but researching and summarising this involves consulting about 10 documents at once - reports, opinions, blog posts, legislation, guidelines, official brochures , statements from libraries...

I love having monitor space to stretch it all out and a tool like Zotero that allows me to organise and instantly pull up all the material I need on the topic.

Field Notes Ambition Edition FNC-25. (Winter 2014) More info: fieldnotesbrand.com/colors/ambition/

Macros

Note the shadows of the visors.

Pinhole camera exposure from 15 October - 26 December 2009 taken at the site of the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) - from the control room extension roof facing north. Note Unit Telescope 1 (Antu) just left of centre and the unbroken solar trails showing that it is never cloudy (!!!) on Paranal. Thanks to Gerd Hudepohl for placing the cameras and to Tarja Trygg for supplying the cameras and processing the results. Andreas Kaufer (observatory director) delivered and distributed the cameras.

See the comment from David Malin on the Solargraphy process in the heading of my "Solargraphy" set: www.flickr.com/photos/bob_81667/sets/72157620933251618/

Maker:

Born: UK

Active: USA

Medium: postage stamp

Size: 3 11/16 in x 6 11/16 in

Location:

Object No. 2021.539

Shelf: E-46

Publication:

Other Collections:

Provenance: oddlots1234

Rank: 6

Notes: TBAL

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She was carrying around a DSLR and I think she was actually taking notes like you're supposed to. Side light by one of the fixtures that help light the ice rink area.

Samantha took lot's of pictures trying to capture what we do at our assemblies

A really sweet note on the side of my sister's refrigerator from one of her daughters.

NOTE TO DESKS:

MoD release authorised handout images.

All images remain crown copyright.

Photo credit to read - Sergeant Alison Baskerville RLC

Exodus 2:15 (ANIV)

When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, [where he sat down by a well.]

DRAWING NOTES:

TIME OF DAY:

I imagine Moses would have wanted to escape Pharaoh and his soldiers as soon as possible, so I have set this scene just after dawn.

LIGHTING NOTES:

The rising sun is in the east, which is behind the viewer and to the right.

Low shadows from the hills Moses and the camel train are walking up are falling away onto the Nile plain behind them. Sunlight can be seen in the distant landscape, particularly on the city of Akhetaten, on the banks of the Nile river. Strong sunlight and shadow can be seen on the foreground figures, camels and rocks.

CHARACTERS PRESENT:

Moses, paying a man to travel with him and his camel train to Midian. Various men and camels.

Pharaoh’s soldiers and chariot.

Common swift (Apus apus)

Dung beetle (Scarabaeus sacer)

Dromedary, or one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius)

RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:

There are two versions of this scene:

01) (Previous page) Exodus 02 - Moses flees to Midian - Scene 01 - Leaving home (Yellow sky)

02) (This page) Exodus 02 - Moses flees to Midian - Scene 01 - Leaving home (Blue sky)

The only difference between the two scenes is the colour of the sky.

I thought I would draw a couple of Bible Cartoons depicting Moses hurriedly leaving Egypt. Verse 15 informs us that Pharaoh tried to kill Moses, which is obviously the cause for Moses’ hurried departure from that land!

You can see Moses still in his Egyptian robes, walking alongside men and camels heading out of Egypt. Moses is paying a man to let him travel with the camel train. Notice that I have drawn Moses covered up with a drab looking blanket, in an attempt to avoid Pharaoh’s soldiers, who are looking for him. You may just be able to make out a chariot and spear-carrying soldiers in the middle distance, behind the camel train, heading back towards the city. That is my way of visually depicting the fact that Moses has managed to elude Pharaoh’s soldiers and make good his escape!

A NOTE ABOUT MOSES BEARD

If you look at previous scenes of the early life of Moses, I have drawn him without a beard. This represents his youth, and the culture of the Egyptians at the time. Although Moses was about 40 years old when he left Egypt, and therefore quite capable of growing a beard, I have drawn him without one.

If you look carefully at my depiction of Moses in this scene, you may just be able to make out that I have drawn him with “5 o’clock shadow” or the first signs of stubble on his chin. I reason that Moses wanted to disguise himself from Pharaoh’s guards and soldiers, who we know wanted to kill him, and so allowing his beard to grow might provide Moses with that disguise. Incidentally, I have drawn Moses with a blanket over his Egyptian clothes, as part of his hastily contrived disguise!

In the scenes I have already drawn showing Moses in Midian (ie the set of Bible Cartoons entitled “Exodus 03-04 - Burning Bush”) I have drawn Moses with a full beard. In these scenes he has his characteristic Hebrew inner and outer blue robes.

ANIMALS IN THIS SCENE

The most noticeable animal in this scene is a bright blue Dung beetle (Scarabaeus sacer) in the left foreground. The ancient Egyptians used symbols in their art and religion. The common scarab beetle, found all over ancient Egypt, was one such venerated animal, symbolizing the restoration of life.

“Dung beetles are usually round with short wing covers (elytra) that expose the end of the abdomen. They vary in size from 5 to 30 mm (0.2 to about 1.2 inches) and are usually dark in colour, although some have a metallic lustre. The sacred scarab of ancient Egypt (Scarabaeus sacer), found in many paintings and jewelry, is a dung beetle. Egyptian cosmogony includes the scarab beetle rolling its ball of dung with the ball representing the Earth and the beetle the Sun. The six legs, each with five segments (total 30), represent the 30 days of each month (actually, this species has only four segments per leg, but closely related ones do have five).”

{Source: www.britannica.com/animal/dung-beetle#ref261220]

The birds in this scene are Common swift (Apus apus), which I thought would be an appropriate metaphor representing Moses’ rapid exit from Egypt!

The other animals are dromedaries, or one-humped camels (Camelus dromedarius), which are found throughout the Middle east and the horn of Africa. They are used to great effect as beasts of burden, and have served mankind for thousands of years.

WHEN AND WHERE DID MOSES LIVE IN EGYPT?

I started to read articles to answer the questions of when Moses left Egypt and where he was living at the time. Here’s my sequence of events leading to the photographs I have used for this scene:

01) I did a Google search for “what Egyptian dynasty did Moses live in?” That lead me to this article:

www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2009/02/27/Moses-and-Hatshe...

It is fascinating reading about scholars’ attempts to uncover the facts regarding this era. Apparently there are 2 schools of though about when Moses lived in Egypt. Some say it was the first half of the 13th Century BC. Others propose the 15th Centruy BC; the author of the article above favours the latter.

02) Reading this article lead me to the sub-section entitled “Queen Hatshepsut of Dynasty 18. Was she Pharaoh’s daughter? D. Hansen.”

According to mr. Hansen, Hatshepsut of Dynasty 18 may very well have been “Pharaoh’s daughter”, mentioned in Exodus 2:5.

Then it was a quick look to find the dates for Dynasty 18, which was c. 1353 BC - c. 1332 BC. So if you believe the evidence supports the Dynasty 18 date, then we have our date of WHEN Moses lived in Egypt.

03) I started to research where the capital city of Dynasty 18 was, which lead me to read:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_capitals_of_Egypt

This informed me that Akhetaten was the capital city of Dynasty 18.

04) I used Google Earth to find Akhetaten, which is now called Tell el Amarna in Egypt. I found a variety of photo images from the surrounding area that helped me to design this scene of Moses leaving his home city in Egypt.

Google Earth helped me to see that the city of Akhetaten was built near the Nile River, as many of the capital cities of Egypt were. Indeed, much of the population lived very close to that river. In my picture you can see the city near the horizon, on the left. The Nile (with several boats on it) can be seen just behind the city as a turquoise coloured strip.

I also discovered that there are hills to the east of Akhetaten, which is what you can see Moses and the camel train walking up. They strong sunlight from the rising dawn sun is just catching the edges of the figures and camels, as they approach the summit of the first line of hills.

WHERE WAS MIDIAN?

In order to find out where Moses went to, after he left Egypt (ie Midian) I started to read articles and commentaries describing that county. In fact, it turns out that Midian is a rather difficult place to pin down geographically! Here are two quotes from commentaries regarding Midian:

“No boundaries can now be assigned to "the land of Midian." It included territory on the West as well as on the East of the Gulf of `Aqaba (Exodus 4:19). It lay between Edom and Paran (1 Kings 11:18). In the time of the Judges their district seems to have extended northward to the East of Gilead (Judges 8:10).

A trace of the ancient name is found in that of Madyah, a place mentioned by the Arabic geographers, with a plentiful supply of water, now called Maghair Sho`aib. It lies East of the Gulf of `Aqaba, some miles from the coast, almost opposite the point of the Sinaitic peninsula. The name Sho`aib, given by Mohammed to Jethro, may here be due to ancient Midianite tradition.”

[Source: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]

“Midian Mid'ian (strife), a son of Abraham and Keturah, Gene 25:2; 1 Chr 1:32 progenitor of the Midianites, or Arabians dwelling principally in the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. Southward they extended along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Eyleh (Sinus Ælaniticus); and northward they stretched along the eastern frontier of Palestine. The "land of Midian," the place to which Moses fled after having killed the Egyptian, Exod 2:15, 21 or the portion of it specially referred to, was probably the peninsula of Sinai.”

[Source: Smith's Bible Dictionary]

As with many places named in the Bible, the exact location of the “land of Midian” seems to be uncertain. Over time the boundaries of the “land of Midian” may well have been re-drawn (if they ever were formalised by a map!) especially since the area of the Middle East has undergone many major and minor political boundary changes over the long course of its history.

We know from Exodus 3:1 that Moses was tending his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep near Herob, the mountain of God (aka Mt. Sinai). We can reason that Moses went from Egypt to the “land of Midian”, and that this place was either 01) part of the northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, or else 02) on the eastern edge of the Sinai Peninsula. Indeed, it is entirely possible that Moses went to the first, then moved around with the flocks, and came to the mountain of God in the 2nd, at a later date. This is quite possible since we know ancient shepherds moved their flocks and herds around constantly looking for better pastures.

See this & many more cartoon illustrations on my website: www.biblecartoons.co.uk