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The Nutcracker (Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, 1891-1892). A production by Compañía Nacional de Danza at the Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville.
This is an Irish Nutcracker that we got as a wedding gift. We allow him to keep watch over our bar for most of the year, but give him special attention at the holidays.
It's the first advent today, so about time to decorate your home for Christmas. A nutcracker is one typical decoration where I come from (Ore-mountains, Germany).
And to build one out of lego was on my to do list since 2013, when I built a lego Schwibbogen. Now, I finally did it.
I don't normally put these two out, they probably come out every third Christmas or so. What great timing that I had them on display this year.
Clark's nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), sometimes referred to as Clark's crow or woodpecker crow, is a passerine bird in the family Corvidae. It is slightly smaller than its Eurasian relative the spotted nutcracker (N. caryocatactes). It is ashy-grey all over except for the black-and-white wings and central tail feathers (the outer ones are white). The bill, legs and feet are also black. This bird derives its name from the explorer William Clark.- wikipedia
The Nutcracker Ballet is famous for its music composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. My work Nutcracker Ensemble is a fantastic remake of the classic Toy Soldiers. I choose a music theme that fits these amazing nutcrackers best. The band members include three Toy Soldiers (violin, drum and trumpet) and Rat King (accordion).
The Nutcracker theme is quite suitable for building LEGO. Its gorgeous shapes and colors are definitely an indispensable home decoration in the new year.
This is the reason why they call it "nutcracker"! It's weird that there is a complete different name in German!
At the moment life is very difficult for the animals after two days of continuous snowfall.
Im Moment ist das Leben für die Tiere sehr schwer, nachdem es seit zwei Tagen ohne Unterbruch schneit.
This is my "accidental" collection of Nutcrackers. One Christmas, many years ago, I mentioned that I liked the Nutcrackers. The wife and kids jumped on the comment as a Christmas suggestion. This is what followed over the next years.
This is one of the Clark's Nutcrackers that we saw in the trees near the Chateau Lake Louise parking lot yesterday. These birds equate people with food, so like to hang around places such as parking lots.
"High in the mountains of the West, gray-and-black Clark’s Nutcrackers swoop among wizened pine trees, flashing white in the tail and wing. They use their dagger-like bills to rip into pine cones and pull out large seeds, which they stash in a pouch under their tongue and then carry away to bury for the winter. Each birds buries tens of thousands of seeds each summer and remembers the locations of most of them. Seeds they don’t retrieve play a crucial role in growing new pine forests." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Clarks_Nutcracker/id
This photo was taken on 22 January 2016, when I was fortunate enough to get a place on a bus trip to Lake Louise and the annual Ice Sculpture display, in Banff National Park, in the Rocky Mountains. It is a two-hour drive west of Calgary. Of course, any time a bus trip is organized way ahead of the day, you have no idea what the weather is going to be like. Unfortunately, the weather was grim all day, with snow all day long, turning to really heavy, wet snow when we stood in the parking lot at the end of the day. No sign of the sun, which made photography a real challenge. There were so many people visiting the area that it was more or less impossible to get photos without at least a few people included. Even the mountains had mostly disappeared.
Our bus driver, Tim, did a wonderful job of getting us to the lake and all the way back to Calgary. I was just so thankful that I wasn't driving!
Some of the group chose to snowshoe, others to walk, and others to join Anne Belton's group for birding. I was expecting a stroll with Anne along the lake shore and around the Chateau grounds, lol, but instead we did a hike along the creek all the way to Lake Louise Village, roughly 4.2 km! The trail was very narrow - wide enough for heavy winter boots and icers plus maybe a couple of inches on either side. If you were unlucky enough to walk an inch further, you would have one leg plunge into snow up to your knee or hips and you would go flying into the snow. This happened two or three times and I was so thankful that it didn't happen to me, but it did mean that my eyes were looking downwards all the time instead of soaking up most of the glorious, snow-covered forest. The snow was so thick on the trees and when it became just too heavy for a branch to support, you stood the risk of being snow-bombed by a great ball of heavy snow from high above. A lot of the trail was downhill - never fun in such conditions, but we took it very slowly. There were several tumbles or someone would end up travelling downhill on their rear end. Not the easiset hike, but the surroundings couldn't have been more beautiful. Thankfully, the bus driver had arranged to drive down to the Village ready to pick us up and take us back uphill to the Lake.
As for the birds that day, well, they obviously didn't particularly like the grey, snowy day and stayed in hiding, other than several Common Ravens, a couple of Magpies, one or two Clark's Nutcrackers and two House Sparrows. Back at the Chateau, two of the birders did see a very distant Stellar's Jay - always a lovely bird to see, but it was too far away for them to get photos.
We had time to wander round the Ice Scuptures area, in front of the Chateau. Some amazing work created by sculptors from various parts of the world.
"Winter comes alive in iconic Lake Louise, Alberta. Ice Magic Festival, January 15 - 24, 2016 is a world class event with over 20 years under its belt. Talented ice artists from around the world delicately balance grueling physical labour with precision artistry in a 34 hour International Ice Carving Competition.
Jaw-dropping scenery sets the stage as ice carving teams of 2 create sculptures illustrating their interpretations of our chosen theme for 2016: Earth, Wind, Fire & Water - Elements of Life." Taken from link below. I love that the prize money for this competition is only a comparatively small amount, which I think shows that the carvers do what they do for love of the art, not for the money : )
Team Ice Carving Competition
1st Place: $2,500
2nd Place: $1,500
3rd Place: $750
Carver's Choice: $750
People's Choice: $500
One Carver, One Hour, One Block
1st Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $300
3rd Place: $200
People's Choice: $250
www.banfflakelouise.com/Area-Events/Festivals/Winter/Snow...
So, a wonderful day trip for us all in breathtaking surroundings. I am especially appreciative, as I don't drive to the mountains, so rarely get to see them. Many thanks to FLC for doing such a great job of organizing this most enjoyable day for us. Thanks to Anne Belton for taking some of us on the beautiful hike through the forest. Definitely a day to remember.
I was lucky to be able to get away with this shot at 1/100 sec under ISO800. These ballerina from Moscow are supposed to be the angels inside the dream of Clara.
Isaac and I got a very unique opportunity through InnovaLUG, to build a series of Nutcrackers based off of the promotional Nutcracker set to aid in The LEGO Group’s advertising of the promotion. You can see that video on their Facebook page here. They needed 18 unique outfits for Nutcrackers built within a few weeks, and we jumped at the chance to do some building for the LEGO group.
As soon as we had the idea for a Johnny Thunder nutcracker, I knew we had to do it. I decided to base his outfit on this minifigure, with the exception of the arms and legs, which I changed to red and brown respectively, instead of tan. The revolver was perhaps the trickiest part of the figure, but with Isaac’s help, I think it turned out pretty well. All in all, this is definitely one of my favorite nutcrackers I made for the promotion.
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The town of Steubenville, Ohio, USA has over 200 life-sized nutcrackers on display each Christmas season.
Every good hotel needs a nutcracker sentry on guard ….. just in case! It’s no different at the Mount Juliet Estate where nutcrackers stand either side of the entrance to guard over Christmas! The interior of the lobby looks so welcoming. I think I can even spot a gingerbread house!
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High in the mountains of the West, gray-and-black Clark’s Nutcrackers swoop among wizened pine trees, flashing white in the tail and wing. They use their dagger-like bills to rip into pine cones and pull out large seeds, which they stash in a pouch under their tongue and then carry away to bury for the winter. Each birds buries tens of thousands of seeds each summer and remembers the locations of most of them. Seeds they don’t retrieve play a crucial role in growing new pine forests.