Puzzle Mania ((Puzzles only))
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I add another part of puzzle…..
Some of you guessed it right, the two photos (see in the comment box) are a detail of an origami work ;-)
Have another guess…what will it be….???
PS: The little clothes pegs helping the paper to remember its shape. The upper and lower part are not finished yet ….
"Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution."
- Stephen Sondheim
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For this "Still Life" composition I used natural Geranium branches affected by plant albinism, that I found at one place in my neighborhood. Plants with albinism occur when they don't produce chlorophyll. Emergent albino plant seedings will have a distinct white color without any hint of green pigment.
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The small tilted wooden piece in the foreground is 3.8cm (1.5 ins) from end to end. Planar Pentacubes
Sometimes it is quite a puzzle what you have to do and also what you shouldn't do!
Sign inside a trainstation.
I had to go looking around the house to find some puzzles that were well out of sight, found this in my sons room from a good few xmas's back.
HMM everyone.
Taken for Macro Mondays topic "puzzle." I had to borrow a puzzle from a friend as we have none in our house.
Bruno: Alright, Julia! Let's get this puzzle done.
Julia: Bruno, you're super special but unfortunately I don't view you as a very good puzzle helper.
Bruno: What do you mean? I'm awesome. I know where ever piece goes.
Julia: Alright, then where does this one go?
Bruno: In my mouth. The ones with the sticky-outty pieces are the tastiest.
Julia: Bruno, you're not supposed to eat the pieces. You're supposed to put them together to make a picture.
Bruno: Got it. So where does that one go?
Julia: I don't know yet.
Bruno: Oooh, if you're lost I could put it in my mouth.
Julia: That's not the plan. We're looking for pieces of the same colour to go together for the picture.
Bruno: Um, Julia, I have a couple of problems.
Julia: Personal space and impulse control?
Bruno: Nope and nope. I don't know what the picture looks like and I'm moderately colour blind.
Julia: I'm sorry. I forgot about the colour blind part. But, if you look at the box you can see that it's a picture of a bunch of golden retrievers on a dock.
Bruno: On a dock? Golden retrievers? What a great idea!
Julia: We're not going swimming now. It's just a picture.
Bruno: Got it. I'm picturing myself on a dock after the puzzle is done. Now if you would just back up then I can start eating all of the pieces that we don't know where they go and we can get to the dock faster!
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COVID has revealed Julia's inner puzzler. And Bruno does love to put puzzle pieces on his inside. So, we usually keep him far away from the puzzles. But when I say him looking longingly at her and her puzzle I knew what needed to be done for his weekly photo.
And only one puzzle piece was partly mangled and pulled from the back of his throat during the photo session. I thank Karen for her reaction time on that.
Puzzle Pieces ~~ Stephen Speaks
trying to make sense of this puzzle
but feeling like the pieces are scattered all around this room
climbing the fence of my trouble
falling down once again to try and get there soon
oh but could I stand and wait for You
instead of running from this black to find my blue
oh and when will I just listen to the truth
that the pieces of this puzzle just don't fit without You
For the FGR theme
Fachada de la Casa de Ya´far, de triple arcada de herradura soportada por columas. Conjunto arqueologico Medina Azahara (Madinat al-Zahra). Cordoba. España.
Fachada con premio European Union Prize for cultural Heritage 2004 "Por la espléndida recuperación de un ejemplo único de la arquitectura residencial palaciega islámica del Califato de al-Andalus, fundada en una investigación arqueológica detallada, independientemente de cualquier juicio de valor".
Medina Azahara, castellanización del nombre en árabe, مدينة الزهراء Madīnat al-Zahrā' ("la ciudad brillante"), fue una ciudad palatina o áulica que mandó edificar Abderramán III (Abd al-Rahman III, al-Nasir) a unos 8 km en las afueras de Córdoba en dirección oeste, más concretamente, en Sierra Morena.
Los principales motivos de su construcción son de índole político-ideológica: la dignidad de califa exige la fundación de una nueva ciudad, símbolo de su poder, a imitación de otros califatos orientales y sobre todo, para mostrar su superioridad sobre sus grandes enemigos, los fatimíes de Ifriqiya, la zona norte del continente africano. Además de oponentes políticos, lo eran también en lo religioso, ya que los fatimíes, chiíes, eran enemigos de los omeyas, mayoritariamente de la rama islámica suní.
La cultura popular también dice que fue edificada como homenaje a la mujer favorita del califa: Azahara.
El yacimiento arqueológico de Medina Azahara está declarado Bien de interés cultural en la categoría de monumento desde el año 1923.4 El 27 de enero de 2015 «Madínat al-Zahra» fue inscrito en la Lista Indicativa de España del Patrimonio de la Humanidad, en la categoría de bien cultural (nº. ref 5978).
El 12 de enero de 2017 se registró el documento definitivo de la candidatura de la ciudad para formar parte de la Lista de Patrimonio de la Humanidad, siendo declarada oficialmente como Patrimonio de la Humanidad el 1 de julio de 2018. En 2016 recibió 181.653 visitantes, siendo el cuarto espacio cultural más visitado de la ciudad de Córdoba.
La Casa de Yafar recibe su nombre por Ya´far ibn Abd al-Rahmán, designado primer ministro (hayib) en el año 961. Pese a la denominación, no tenemos todavía asegurada con certeza que la residencia de este personaje estuviese aquí, basándonos únicamente en las intuiciones e investigaciones de los especialistas. Su estructura se articula alrededor de tres ámbitos espaciales, organizados en torno a sus correspondientes patios, todos ellos de distinto carácter: uno público, uno íntimo y otro de servicio. El espacio oficial es constituido por una edificación de planta asimilable a la basilical, que cuenta con tres naves longitudinales que comunican entre sí mediante puertas rematadas por arcos de herradura, así como una nave transversal abierta al patio, donde se interrumpe la correspondencia existente entre las naves longitudinales la fachada, con el objeto de adaptar esta última al espacio creado por la construcción de un baño contiguo. La fachada se organiza mediante una triple arcada de herradura soportada por columnas. En cuanto a la decoración del edificio, éste se pavimentó con gruesas losas de mármol blanco, excepto en el patio, donde se emplearon piedras de caliza violácea; además, destaca la decoración de ataurique de la fachada con temática vegetal y geométrica, que también está presente en el vano de comunicación de la nave transversal y la central, que ostenta sendos tableros en los frentes y las jambas del vano.
The new Kodak Pixpro Orbit360 4K, making a Christmas debut! Mary is working on a puzzle while watching White Christmas.
I'm thankful I have this puzzle now I'm doing. The governor has closed all restaurants (will be take outs at certain ones) and bars as of 3pm today. I went to the PO this AM and the town is deserted. No schools, Churches and the Library is shut down.
I'm thankful I have Flickr to communicate with others here at my house. I wish everyone to be safe..............
An icy scene in Northern Norway. I was reminded of puzzle pieces while crouching down in the snowbank for this one.
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Puzzle Wood is an ancient woodland site within the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. The wood which grows upon limestone rock contains many weird rock formations, caves and ancient trees. The whole location has a very primal feel. Although pathways were laid down in the 19th century, the wood has been carefully preserved. Trees are allowed to lay where they fall unless across paths. And otherwise the wood is left to its own devices.
It was said that Tolkien who spent a lot of time in the area was inspired by this wood specifically and the whole Forest of Dean region in general in creating his landscapes in Lord Of The Rings. More recently scenes from both Doctor Who and Star Wars were filmed here.
This abstract shot is of a brutalist car park in central bristol, with large imposing patterns of shaped concrete blocks arranged like a gigantic puzzle.
the macromonday theme for tomorrow is items that start with the letter P. oscar ocarina has a patchwork puzzle shell ~grin~
the autobot tagger has decided that oscar is food. i suppose that somewhere turtle soup is considered a delicacy but it would be hard on the teeth as oscar is ceramic
Again, apologies for not commenting (or posting), for the time being,
Flickr is going to have to be a weekend thing :-(
WORK! damnit
Solving puzzles helps reinforce existing connections between our brain cells. It also increases the generation of new relationships. This, in turn, improves mental speed and thought processes. Jigsaw puzzles are especially good for improving short-term memory.
A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often oddly shaped interlocking and mosaiced pieces. Each piece usually has a small part of a picture on it; when complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture. In some cases, more advanced types have appeared on the market, such as spherical jigsaws and puzzles showing optical illusions.
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This shot is a bit rough and there's a lot of atmosphere, but I thought I'd show you the ice forming on Utah Lake! I thought it was pretty cool!