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At a distance the Glossy Ibis will seem somewhat dark in appearance, but catch it closeup with a full overhead sunlight, and the iridescence produces wonderful green and rust highlights. Its dark brown eye (among other features) distinguishes the Glossy from the White-faced Ibis that is seen in the Western States.
Glossy Ibis, seen at Merritt Island NWR.
Black Vulture seen at Orlando Wetlands, near Christmas, Florida. There were a number of palm trees without growth at the top of the tree trunk that served as viewing platforms for various birds.
The Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) visiting the garden, summer brood. The larva from the spring brood feeds mainly on holly plant hence its common name. Taken in the garden. Bath, BANES; Somerset, England, UK
Not the first year I pictured these, only I still don 't know their name! Maybe one of you does? They are growing very low to the ground in much density.. and are very pale blue, almost white.. Thx!
An egg in the hand is worth two in the bush? No... that's not quite right, is it?
The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 19th of May is "hand(s)", but no arms. So, I have chosen a photograph I took about a month ago, which I was contemplating using for my Easter photo. I acquired a selection of egg decorations for Easter and I was very struck by this gilt and painted wooden egg, so I photographed it in my left hand and then made it a selective colour image which not only brough out the beautiful textures of the egg, but also my hand! Not bad for a one handed shot, even if I do say so myself! I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile!
There is some weird song i am going to write for this one.
Just kidding. This is on a back road near Aberfoyle ON. I did not get a very clear shot off but love the composition of it all.
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Drifted...
The sun was diffused by some pretty thick cloud coverage; there were gaps in the sky that allowed the sun to spill its glorious light all over the landscape. the firmament was a translucent blue with patches of white and grey mixed in for effect.
The water on the surface of the lake was at a dead calm, with only the slightest ripples disturbing its glassy surface. Washed up on the shore a large piece of driftwood stranded until the next storm washes it back into the pale blue lake.
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This delicate and fragile egg has been painted completely by hand in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The egg has a background of vibrant aqua blue which is decorated with a mixture of stylised blue flowers and foliage in a William Morris style and then overlaid with tiny silver white flecks. The egg is then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 6th of May “Blue for You – ME 2023” which is in honour of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day which happens to fall on May 12th. May the 12th was chosen as it coincided with the birth date of Florence Nightingale, the celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale became chronically ill in her mid-thirties after returning from the Crimean War; the M.E.-like illness often left her bedridden during the last 50 years of her life.
As the theme for “Smile on Saturday” this week was open to subject but required a lot of blue, I thought I would submit another of my ornamental eggs, all of which just happen to be blue! This egg, perched atop a small porcelain rest, has a small puncture at both the top and the bottom, indicating that it was “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile egg shell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The paper I have chosen for the background, which also just happens to be blue, is William Morris’ 1875 “Marigold” pattern which I thought suited this Style Liberty Easter egg as well as the blue theme. I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
This was the 'Jewel Like' scene at 7.00am this morning as viewed from the rear of my home in Betws yn Rhos, Conwy, North Wales - looking Easterly towards Llanfair Talhaiarn.
Sixteen days earlier, in my sunrise posting of 25th March, saw the sun rising between the two larger Oak Trees pictured centre and to the right. This later image clearly shows the changed elevation point as the Earth's Axis alters - again with a beautiful 'Starburst' too.
In the coming months, as the Earth's Axis continually alters, the sun will move further left until finally resting.
Good morning everyone! I very much hope you are all safe and well.
Windy, raining and overcast again today, so I thought I'd brighten up the day by taking you back in time to 19.00pm on a glorious September evening, when I took this close up of the more intense area on the horizon looking West towards Trofarth.
Last September, saw many spectacular sunsets - this being another fine example.
Isn't nature wonderful!
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"Cinderella thought that it was no later than eleven when she counted the clock striking twelve. She jumped up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers on the palace steps, which the prince picked up most carefully." - Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault.
The theme for "Looking Close in Friday for Friday 14th of November is "only two words" where two words are to ine included in the image for the theme... no more... no less. Anyone who follows my photostream will know that I love faerie tales, and I was read to from big of books of faerie tales whilst sitting at my maternal Grandmother's knee. The books may have grown smaller as I grew up, but my love of those classic faerie tales by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Anderson has never shrunk, and I love them as much today as I did then, even if my Grandmother is no longer here to read them to me. I have decided to take my inspiration from that most classic of faerie tales, Cinderella. I had great fun creating this montage. Earlier in the year I was given a rather lovely, small, blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe ornament which I felt was perfect to feature in a photograph. I have paired my slipper, which I photographed on a glass topped table on the back terrace, as I thought it gave an interesting, textural look to the background. I then sprinkled rose petals around it (a tribute to Cinderella fleeing the ball in my favourite film "The Slipper and the Rose"). The clock is actually the face of a fine Art Nouveau lady clock I have on my hall table. I photographed it against a dark background so that I could layer it over the top of the other image and then make it partially transparent. To add some magic to the shot, I added sparkles to Cinderella's slipper, and then gave the montage a blue wash to suggest that this occurred at midnight. Thus, midnight strikes! I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
“People who shine from within don't need the spotlight.” – Anonymous.
It is still winter where I live, with crisp and cool mornings and plenty of rainy and overcast days, and yet for all that, there are a few early spring blossoms appearing in the streets and gardens. Last Sunday was a beautiful blue sky day, mild and sunny, so I decided to venture out with my camera and try and capture some of the first flush of delicate pink Japanese cherry blossoms on display.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 16th of August is “light and shade”, where an object is required to be in light, and an object is also required to be in shade. I had a completely different image planned for this theme, until I went out last Sunday to capture the cherry blossoms. Here we can see one blossom with is caught partially in the bright late winter sunlight of the afternoon, and partially in the shade cast by some of the branches and blossoms further up the tree. I do hope that you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
A cherry blossom, also known as a Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of trees in the genus Prunus or the Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Wild species of the cherry tree are widely distributed, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They are common in East Asia, especially in Japan. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not cherry trees grown for their fruit. The cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
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Hasta la vista 2009...
-- a year of new friendships, fresh discoveries, awesome moments, some not so pleasant vibrations.... but otherwise a good year for me. I thank each one who made me feel special in this virtual world of flickr, where photographs are the faces we present. Just like in real life... we are not 100 % presentable all the time. And some of you are like real-life friends, still there, bearing with my moods, idiosyncrasies... hormones LOL.
Looking forward to another year with you...
A Fantastic 2010 To All Of You!
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I am one of those people who really enjoy Christmas. I enjoy it for many reasons, not least of all because I get to give gifts I have gathered throughout the year to my family and friends.
I shop for gifts all year around, and then hide them in places about the house where my partner won't find them (if they are for him) and in places out of the way for other recipients who might be visiting.
In the lead up to Christmas, my dining room becomes a wonderland of Christmas wrapping and trimmings which I joking call the Christmas Wrapping Bureau, as I usually end up wrapping all my partner's presents as well as my own. However another reason I like Christmas is that I love wrapping gifts, playing with ribbons and bright paper.
They are all done and are nestled 'neath my tree, ready for Christmas Day!
Explore # 310... :D Thanks!!
The sun was out for a moment this morning...now it's gone :-(
These are my favorite glasses. They are very blue, but I just love de-saturation :-)
This was the scene, from the front of my home, at 18.30pm tonight looking directly West towards Troforth after the sun had just set behind the hillside that surrounds us.
Totally unexpected and spectacular - considering the amount of rain and bad weather we've had in the last two days.
I used a Cannon 24-70mm Ultrasonic Lens and polarising filter - focusing on the sky rather than the horizon with an interesting mix of Altocumulus (lower) and Cirrus Clouds (above).
Worryingly, the UK's COVID figures are now showing significant daily increases. I very much hope you are all still keeping safe.
Last Friday, I took a lovely walk to drop off a birthday card to a very good friend of mine. Along the way I chanced upon a whole row of wonderful ornamental Japanese cherry blossom trees in full bloom! The weather wasn't the best that day, with grey leaden skies, however I promised myself I would go back and photograph them on the next sunny day. That day turned out to be the following afternoon, which was beautiful with azure skies and golden light. So I decided to revisit the grove of Japanese cherry blossom trees. With the sun shining on the petals of these blossoms they were so delightfully eye catching and were crying out to be captured within my lens.
A cherry blossom, also known as a Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of trees in the genus Prunus or the Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Wild species of the cherry tree are widely distributed, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They are common in East Asia, especially in Japan. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not cherry trees grown for their fruit. The cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
for the macromonday theme of ethereal (3/24/14)
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slider sunday.......just a little sliding but thought you might like something delicate and soft and NOT green
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Spring has finally come to Melbourne after a long and grey winter, and everywhere, gardens are bursting forth with beautiful coloured blooms in a profusion of colours.
When I went for an afternoon stroll the other week under blue skies, I chanced upon a magnificent Prunus 'Ichiyo' "Pink Champagne", its branches weighed down with a magnificent cascade of ballerina tutu blossoms. The air around it buzzed with dozens and dozens of busy bees getting drink on the champagne pollen nectar from the profusion of flowers.
The Japanese Cherry or Prunus serrulata 'Ichiyo' has a spreading habit with gracefully ascending main branches. In mid to late spring, Prunus serrulata 'Ichiyo' produces double, shell-pink flowers that open from pink buds. These flowers fade to white as they age. The leaves of Prunus serrulata 'Ichiyo' emerge as bronze-green in the spring and age to deep-green over the summer months. In the autumn, the leaves of Prunus serrulata 'Ichiyo' turn beautiful shades of orange and red, adding a bright splash of color to any landscape. Prunus serrulata is deciduous and native to China and Korea. Prunus serrulata 'Ichiyo' originated in the Nineteenth Century in Japan.
Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces of haberdashery. I usually focus on Dewhurst’s Sylko spools, but I also have spools from many other manufacturers which have interesting and beautiful graphics on their heads. For this photograph I have a spool of Glista silk substitute machine twist from the 1930s and a spool of Cozilka machine twist from the 1920s. Some time ago, I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this beautiful hand dyed pale blue pleated wool crêpe which I have used to accessorise my two spools and two lovely cobalt blue glass Art Deco buttons from the 1920s.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 17th of May is “ton sur ton”. “Ton sur ton” is a French expression that we can translate as “tone on tone”; that's when there are two (or more) assembled items of the same colour, but not the same shade (tint, hue). In this example, the spools and the buttons are all shades of blue, but the shades are darker than that of the pale blue crêpe background. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
I could find very little about Glista Bright Machine Twist other than an advertisement from an English Du Barry patterns magazine from 1939. The advertisement says: “Be sure and sew with Glista, the best machine twist for woollens or cotton fabrics – strong and silky – works perfectly for machine or hand sewing. 100-yard reels – look for the name on the reels.” I know Glista Bright Machine Twist was produced in Britain, and I know it was sold through F. W. Woolworth & Co.
Cozilka was a brand produced by B. N. & H. Ltd. B. N. & H. Ltd. were Brough, Nicholson and Hall of Leek, Staffordshire. The company was founded in 1812 as a silk and artificial silk thread producer. They became famous throughout the textile world as very high quality silk fabric and thread manufacturers. Cozilka is probably either silk or artificial silk, and the name was created to be a imitation of Dewhurst's Sylko trade name.
A few Fridays ago, I took a lovely walk to drop off a birthday card to a very good friend of mine. Along the way I chanced upon a whole row of wonderful ornamental Japanese cherry blossom trees in full bloom! It is still winter here, but nudging towards spring, and the blossom trees are always a delightful harbinger of warmer days and sunshine. The weather wasn't the best that day, being quite wintery with grey leaden skies, however I promised myself I would go back and photograph them on the next sunny day. That day turned out to be the following afternoon, which was beautiful with azure skies and golden light. So, I decided to revisit the grove of Japanese cherry blossom trees. With the sun shining on the petals of these blossoms they were so delightfully eye catching and were crying out to be captured within my lens.
The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 31st of August is "bokeh in flora", which requires a photograph of 'flora' and the picture should also contain 'bokeh blur'. I thought this one of many photos I took of the pink sakura blossoms was perfect for the theme. I hope you like my choice of image for this week, and that it makes you smile!
A cherry blossom, also known as a Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of trees in the genus Prunus or the Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Wild species of the cherry tree are widely distributed, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. They are common in East Asia, especially in Japan. They generally refer to ornamental cherry trees, not cherry trees grown for their fruit. The cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
A few months ago, I obtained some lovely pieces of vintage and antique haberdashery notions from a contact of mine in Dorset who seems to always find me interesting pieces. Amongst the items that caught my eye were this wonderful Edwardian era Celebrated Elephant Machine Silk spool, lovely needle packet and a selection of cobalt buttons.
Those attached to their original card are hard plastic, but the latticed ones and the other stylised Art Deco one are glass and date from the 1920s. The buttons all matched cobalt blue of the silk on the spool that I had to put them together! The grey and blue marbleised buckle you can see in the background is Bakelite and also dates from the 1920s.
I'm afraid that after a thorough search, the only thing I could establish about "Celebrated Elephant Machine Silk" is that at one time it was produced by Perivale Sewing Silks. They had a number of different elephant lines including Black Label, Red Label (which consisted of two tone spools of thread) and Blue Label. In addition I know they also made coloured thread for fishing lines. The Perivale Sewing Company had a factory in the Perivale Industrial Estate in Perivale, and that it burnt to the ground around 1968 and was replaced by Perivale Gütermann (an amalgam of the Perivale Sewing Company with Gütermann Cottons).
When it was last my birthday, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She also gave me three follow up tins of similar delightful gifts for Christmas.
Those wonderful gifts are what has inspired me to create this series of "Embroider my World" images featuring my vintage bobbin collection. Recently I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this brilliantly blue pleated wool crepe which I have accessorised with a Dewhurst's Radiant Blue reel of cotton which dates from between 1938 and 1954 and a matching smaller spool of blue cotton from J. P. Coats. Both spools match the fabric perfectly!
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.
In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats. In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged to become Coats & Clark's. Today, the business is known as the Coats Group.
... for wrapping presents
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The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 10th of May is “Blue for You – ME 2025” which is in honour of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day which happens to fall on May 12th. May the 12th was chosen as it coincided with the birth date of Florence Nightingale, the celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale became chronically ill in her mid-thirties after returning from the Crimean War; the M.E.-like illness often left her bedridden during the last 50 years of her life. I have friends who suffer with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, so this theme has a personal connection for me, even if I do not have it myself.
As the subject for “Smile on Saturday” this week was open to personal choice but required a lot of blue, although I usually create a blue themed Playmobil tableau, I have broken with tradition this year, as I recently was given a rather lovely blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe which I felt was perfect to feature in a photograph. I have paired my slipper which features red and gold accents with a blue Art Deco “Charme Caressant” Rachel powder box from my powder box collection which features stylised red and pink flowers on it. I have photographed them on a piece of hand made and printed paper featuring a William Morris pattern in blue. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
"Charme Caressant" is the name of a vintage Dalon face powder, produced in both Paris and Sydney from 1924 into the 1930s. It was a popular French beauty product known for its Art Deco style and various colour shades.
a mental break from the brash, bolder blues i usually end up with.... the times require moments of calm and serenity.
“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.” - Judith Guest (American novelist and screenwriter.)
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 4th of October is “lips”. In this case, I have opted to photograph the father stylised cupid’s bow lips of one of my German half-dolls made by Dressel and Kister, who were famous for making high quality dolls. Her 1920s cupid’s bow lips are (or rather were) modish for the times she was made in the 1920s, yet they are at odds with the rest of her garb, which is very romanticised English late Seventeenth Century Nell Gwynne style, where she wears a floppy lilac coloured hat decorated with feathers and a blue blouse with lace at the collar and cuffs, rater reminiscent of some of the pre-war advertisements for Yardley’s English Lavender Soap. In spite of this contradiction, she is by far one of my finest painted half-dolls and was a recent acquisition from a small antiques and curios shop. She came home along with three other German half-dolls (as if I need any more) which I have added to my ever expanding collection. I am a hopelessly voracious collector of objects! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs. These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner. Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan. They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers. In this case, my German half-doll with her stylised and romanticised Seventeenth Century style dress and picture hat, would have been made for a lady’s boudoir, probably as a powder bowl cover or even for a powder puff.
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