Practical Witches
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An eye patch is big enough if you don't want to contaminate people. The nose is no threat unless you blow your nose in someones hair:-)
I don't know. This was one that I loved certain parts while I was doing it, but then as a total, not a big fan. Here is the original.
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Something different from my usual. They were parked along the road side in the middle of nowhere, so I couldn't resist.
Thanks to SkeletalMess for the Cosmic Band texture
Not practical for the beach i know but when the young family who own this scooter turned up at the beach the 2 youngsters wasted no time in leaving it at the top of the steps and get down on the beach and playing with the rocks, stones and what ever had washed up ........a lovely site to see........Slapton Sands, Torcross, South Hams, Devon ,England
So sometimes the best logical route is practical... magik.
Blueberry - Reachless - Dress&Shirt - Full Version - Legacy
*PKC* Nira Earing Set
.Quirky. Basic Septum [Captive Bead] Unrigged
Kibitz - See you necklace - silver
REIGN.- Ouija Ring (non bento but with right attach to spot and some editing it works great)
REIGN.- OBSESSION BOOTS (THIGH)- LEGACY
--- PUMEC -BOM - LELUTKA / LEGACY - APR - DARK BROWS
"Always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can."
The Scene:
• hair - doux - lemon
• outfit - roslyn - rylan set (out now at The Fifty!)
• pillow - vespertine - spooky huggables - (out now at The Fifty!)
• wand - contraption - diviner's wand
• book - static - charms & spells book
• pose - ana poses - kanazawa set
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I AM TAKING ON NEW CLIENTS FOR LANDSCAPING!
I have just completed my latest landscaping project at the Blake Sea, inspiration from the movie "Practical Magic"!
Coastal town with a dirt road leading down where you'll find a farmers market and shops, pathways to a farm filled with surprises and wildlife encounters. There's so much to explore. These type of landscapes are my fav especially bringing realism into secondlife!
This container of rosehip eye balm is 100% biodegradable.
An idea whose time has come.
container dimensions: 1.75" across by 1" high.
Macro Mondays, subject: Container
Project 365-282
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection...
-- Edward Weston
Found this today while on a ' deleting old photos spree'.
Taken in another lifetime.
I miss my Cybershot,and it's silvery biscuitiness.
This blue Jay has learned to add the peanut last. Last year I watched a young jay grab the peanut first, which opened his beak too wide. He tried again and again to grab some more nuts but couldn't close his beak on them. It was hilarious.
From Martha's Sunday Funnies
Excerpt from www.oakvillegalleries.com/exhibitions/details/228/Sascha-...:
Sascha Braunig's paintings and drawings are exercises in colour, form, and illusion. Citing an artistic lineage that stretches from the Pictures Generation through to the Chicago Imagists and horror-movie practical effects, her sometimes barbed, tubular, netted, or neon-lit forms speak of many of the tensions of the current moment, such as being a subject within the grid of digital or gender systems.
In this exhibition, which stretches over both Oakville Galleries sites, the Canada-born, US-based artist brings together new and recent works that are based on the compositional motif of figures engaged in conflict with a dress-like structure. These works use material qualities to analogize an immaterial idea: the feeling of struggling with a system more powerful than you, in which you are also deeply entangled.
Braunig builds and uses three-dimensional models as visual aids in the making of her work, some of which are included in the exhibition. Because of this observational painting practice, she sees her work as being linked to the academic nineteenth-century painter's use of the “lay figure," a jointed doll, not quite to-scale, that artists used as a stand-in for a live model in the studio. The exhibition's title, Lay Figure, refers to this historical practice, but Braunig extends its meaning to the schematic wiry figure that recurs in her recent work. Here she imagines the lay figure coming into a life of its own, squirming to free itself from rigid systems and resisting its status as the inanimate muse in patriarchal painting's history.
I was just wandering down this alleyway in Stevenage and this delightful man passed me then asked me if I would like to take his picture. I’m pleased with the result.
www.blackpool.gov.uk/Services/M-R/MartonMereLocalNatureRe...
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve is a tranquil refuge on Blackpool’s urban fringe, important for nature conservation, quiet recreation and environmental education.
The reserve is nationally recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its bird populations, but it also supports a number of other nationally important species such as dragonflies, butterflies, bats and orchids. Marton Mere is Blackpool’s biodiversity hot spot, despite it once being part of Blackpool Corporation’s rubbish tip.
The site contains a diversity of habitats including open water, reed beds, grassland as well as pockets of woodland and scrub. Visitors can enjoy the area through following the designated footpaths around the site and visiting the numerous bird watching hides.
Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve is owned, managed and funded by Blackpool Council’s Ranger Service in partnership with Marton Mere Holiday Village. The Rangers undertake large conservation projects with the Volunteer Rangers, protect the interests of people and wildlife as well as undertake a varied programme and events and tours around the reserve.
The Parks Events Programme is availible between April and October, please pick up your copy in the Stanley Park Visitors Centre or on the publications page. In additon to the events programme the Ranger Service will be carrying out several walks this winter (Nov-Feb) to learn all about Long Eared Owls - you might even spot one of these elusive birds! See the publications section on the right for further details.
Visit Blackpool's Parks and Open Spaces on Facebook for detailed updates on park projects, developments and events - www.facebook.com
For information on walking in Lancashire contact: www.walkinginlancs.co.uk
Where can I see Long Eared Owls?
Long Eared Owls winter at Marton Mere Nature Reserve before returning to their breeding areas in the spring. During winter (Nov-Feb) Blackpool Council's Ranger Service organise walks which show you where these elusive birds are located and leave you to enjoy this beautiful site. Remember your binoculars - you may also spot a Bittern if you're lucky! For further details please go to the Publications section on the Ranger Service website
How can I join the Junior Rangers Club?
Are you interested in exploring? Do you like art, science, history or nature? Would you like to learn more about local parks and nature reserves that belong to you? Did you know you can help protect these special places? Well, guess what? Now you can, and all you need to do to be a part of all the fun is join the Junior Rangers Club, and better still, it's all free! As a junior Ranger you'll get to explore the local wildlife, go on trips, use hand tools to make things, take part in arts and crafts, go orienteering, play games and loads more. The Junior Rangers Club is run by Blackpool's Ranger Service on Marton Mere Local Nature Reserve and is a fun packed wildlife club for children aged 8 to 13 years old. The club will meet on a Sunday afternoon, once a month from 1.00 p.m to 3.00 p.m. If you want to find out more please contact the Ranger Service on (01253) 478012 or email parks@blackpool.gov.uk.
What wildlife can be seen on the reserve?
Marton Mere has a superb diversity of habitats, making it attractive to a number of flora and fauna. You will find a variety of wildflowers such as bee orchids, yellow rattle, marsh woundwort and birdsfoot trefoil. The site supports a number of invertebrates such as bees, dragonflies and moths. Butterflies such as the common blue, red admiral, meadow brown and gatekeeper are particularly numerous.
The reserve attracts good numbers of scarcer birds such as water rails, bitterns, whimbrels, marsh harriers and ospreys. The extensive reed bed habitat supports breeding sedge warblers, reed warbler and reed bunting. Long eared owls, sparrowhawks, peregrines and the occasional merlin are also present.
How can I become a Volunteer Ranger?
We welcome applicants to our Volunteer Ranger Service who work around the borough supporting the work of the Rangers on ecological sites. Volunteer Rangers undertake foot patrols, litter picking, practical conservation work and maintenance – as well as assist in guided walks, events and running the Ranger Station.
If you are interested, please contact: (01253) 478478 or download a pack which can be found under Publications to the right of this page..
What is the history of Marton Mere?
The Mere is one of only two nature lakes in Lancashire. The site was formed at the end of the last Ice Age over 10,000 years ago, covering a much larger site than you see today.
Surrounded by forest and marsh attracting animals such as beaver, elk, wild boar, wolves and bears, local people would have caught fish and hunted wildfowl as well as collected reeds and rushes for thatching their homes.
In the early 18th century the original Mere was drained for agriculture significantly reducing the open water habitat. In more recent times, much of the site and surrounding area was used as a refuse tip until 1972. After the site was reclaimed the Nature Conservancy Council designated the area as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1974 and Blackpool Council declared the site as a Local Nature Reserve for wildlife in 1991.
Macmillan Cancer Support is a charity which makes a real difference. They provide practical, financial and emotional support to people and families affected by cancer.
Today many people raised money for them by organising coffee mornings. Please join me for a virtual cup - and if you can please donate even a small amount.
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Well, there isn’t much of a choice here as I see it. Nobody likes a naked cow.
I want my beef dressed. I am thinking a pink tutu and a bright red halter top with a nice scarf to accent the ensemble. The only question is the footwear. I don’t think ballerina slippers would be practical on a cow.. not with the field full of manure. I guess I’ll go with combat boots.
Think how much money some of these people are going to spend to have their cow dressed in formal wear. The cheapest outfit on the Beef’s ‘Dressed List’ is a two piece bathing suit because there is less material. But, if you are going to go with that the cow might as well be naked.
Happy Smile on Saturday.
Cinematic toy photography, with practical lighting effects and captured with a 2x anamorphic lens combined with an 85mm,
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
Standing outside this century old barn, I looked up to see an aircraft flying overhead and thought of how far we'd come. The barn featured a unique swing beam construction that allowed a team of horses, hitched to a wagon, to turn around without having to back up. Horses apparently don't like to walk backwards so this made life easier for farmer and animal alike. When you compare that marvel of practical engineering to the complexity of the plane, it seems there are no limits to what we can accomplish.
During high school, my friends and I would pile in the car (I had a 1981 Chevy Citation that I bought for $600) and head to the coal region. It was less than an hour away and it was just something different to do.
Shamokin was in the heart of it, but usually we'd just pass through on the way to Centrailia or the mall in Frackville - there was a kiosk that sold various bootlegs (I still have a Syd Barrett boot I bought there in 1993).
My plan was to revisit as many places as I could. Centrailia is mostly gone now and the mall was bulldozed years ago, so I wasn't sure that I would find. However, I explored Shamokin for hours and hours, discovering something I had never expected.
What I saw in Shamokin, however, was something that is incredibly rare: a practical and functional downtown with almost all of the necessities of life right there.
Shamokin is one of the most walkable towns I've ever seen. And I wasn't expecting that.
While Pennsylvania Route 61 winds its way along Sunbury Street, Just to the south by a block is Independence Street with Market Street running south, crossing the creek as a boulevard and continuing to the end of town.
Along each and often their side streets are businesses (with houses surrounding them).
At the west end of Independence is a grocery store. Many towns will have a small grocer or convenience store, but this is a full size local chain.
There are multiple banks and credit unions, the post office, restaurants from fast food to pizza shops, Mexican and Chinese food. There's two laundromats, a clinic and hospital at the west end of Independence, various doctors and dentist offices on the main street.
There are mechanics, tire shops, auto parts stores, various barber shops, taverns and bar, and the library, all in the immediate downtown. The town has various parks and even a swimming pool.
Shamokin isn't really a utopia, of course. But as far as walkability to life's essentials, it's pretty perfect.
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'Anthacite'
Camera: Ensign Ful-Vue
Film: Lomo 100
Process: ECN-2
Pennsylvania
July 2024
Original started as a micro spaceship, I felt it needed some minifigs to help bring it to life and to play with the sense of scale.