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“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)
A little fun with backyard Acorn Woodpeckers. I've never seen an Acorn Woodpecker with brown feathers like this before. Does anyone know if this is transition plumage or ???
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia is a very photogenic spot and you can point your camera in almost any direction and find color and character. However, this particular picture is from a jigsaw puzzle. As a fanatic jigsaw puzzler, I lover maritime scenes and am always on the lookout for them. I have taken the original photo and added my own painting effects.
I will be visiting Peggy's Cove soon via Street View and find a spot to set up my easel. Stay tuned.
OK, bad photo.. but look carefully, the righthand side of the sun seems to have writing in the sky.. MOO.. worked it out, it's a partial reflection off my lens where it says zoom.
Well, I spotted it and in the image it looks like it has spots because of all the dew it is shaking off. It was down in the long, wet grass looking for bugs just before I arrived.
The male Brewer's blackbird is backlit and was shot at a shutter speed that was too low to freeze all the motion. You can see this in the tail feathers that look rippled and not sharp, and they also have areas that look quite orange. That colour is a bit of a puzzler.
The bird's beak is exfoliating and if you increase the image size you will notice a light area near the base of the upper mandible.
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?"
Another year on Flickr, it goes so fast, and so to you, a really big thank you for all the support and encouragement, the comments, faves and testimonials. Thank you for all the visits and thank you also for sharing your work!
I wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
See you in 2013!
Martin :-)
“ What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” ~Dr Seuss
P.S My Dad bought me the whole Dr Seuss library when I was a kid....no wonder this is what Christmas looks like to me.
"Kid, you'll move mountains" was my favourite Dr. Seuss quote. I tried to get down to those peaks at the bottom but then I really would of moved mountains with an avalanche,.... Yeah, with a sore puzzler, I didn't need to move mountains that bad so i settled for a snap and a snack.
16th march 2019:
Izzy: "I've been in a very bad mood for more than a week. Even when Mum has blown her nose, I've attacked her. Apparently she has puncture marks all over one of her hands. Rufus is OK and Dad, I haven't been cross with them.
But today, I felt a lot better and was being nice to Rufus, Dad and Mum, and even allowed her to point the picture making thing at me while I was in the garden. Mum just hopes I stay in my better mood ..... "
What is it - "Another puzzler?": It's the radiator in our main room, taken looking down at it from the top:
www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/46472341585/in/datepos...
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
Yesterday's rear end pusher makes another appearance for "Flare Friday", and this time we see the front end. Seen here, this great looking machine is again at Binghamton, at the engine terminal awaiting it's next job. NYSW had roughly 10-12 of these units at one time or another, as power came and went. This particular one is a puzzler in one way, as she is missing from some NYSW rosters. Like others she came to NYSW from the BN, and later on went back to Montana, to become #363 on the Montana Rail Link.
A mystery duck. I have not idea who this is. I think it has some Mallard in it but that's all I can tell. Any help would be appreciated!
The most annoying thing that can happen to a puzzler: a missing piece!!!!!! The most fulfilling part of puzzling is putting in the last piece, in my case even 2!!! pieces are missing - the manufacturer couldnt deliver it but got me my money back. Still, so frustrated.
I have searched the net and can't find anything like this, the leaves (petals?) have a serrated edge to them and there are dozens of them on a bush at the roadside in Stodmarsh in Kent.
I hope someone can i'd it for me! as I don't recall seeing one before!
My thanks to Jacqui Valentine for identifying the plant as Cerinthe Major Thanks Jacqui !!
MY THANKS TO ALL WHO VISIT AND COMMENT IT IS APPRECIATED
Some beautiful light reflecting off the steep canyon walls in the Wall Street section of Zion's Narrows. Second shot from a trip there with Kevin Benedict and
Josh Krasner back in November. The Narrows is a very popular trail so getting a shot without a horde of people in it is an exercise in patience. I tried to think of some use of "gold" that went with the Wall Street theme, and this is the (admittedly weak ass) best I could do after hours of puzzling. I think the old Puzzler has been Grinched by too much holiday cheer. However, it is tough to beat the incredible pure gold coloring in these walls and reflected in the water. I was as mesmerized by it as the miners of bygone days, and I couldn't be happier than traipsing miles through freezing cold water in search of the elusive golden image to bring home in digital nugget form.
Wishing a Happy New Year and fantastic 2020 to all.
EDIT: Rereading the text I realized I used the wrong 'hoard' (one sees a horde of people hoarding toilet paper these days)
the waves roll right on by
and other times you get a face full of brine
and sometimes you just gotta risk it :)
And I hope you have a happy and blessed New Years
I'll be over here ringing in the new year with an elephant sized cold and puzzling into the wee hours with family. Willing to bet Dad and I finish it. Master puzzlers for the win!!!!
Xoxo all you lovely butteflies and night moths :)
Edited box cover, Forest Dream, A Flow State jigsaw puzzle, 1,000 pieces. Illustrator Elin Svensson.
Svensson uses harmonious forms and colours, inspired by the forests of her native Sweden, to take the puzzler on a gentle journey to a place of calm.
Sydney
Happy Thanksgiving Thursday! Since it's also a "Thirty Thursday", I dug into the collection to share this gem that was taken by well known local photographer Dave McKay, who is no longer with us. A very short westbound is holding in the siding for a meet, and it's has some choice power. Leader is one of only 10 ex-NKP GP-30's that were on the N&W roster, while the second unit appears to be one of only 16 U-25B's on the roster. But it also remains a real puzzler, wearing #151 which is neither an ex-Wabash or N&W number for the U-25B's. But it's also an example of the fewer units that were painted with the yellow "N&W" on the hood before the "NW" came along.
Adolescent gulls are always a problem particularly tken from this angle when the species isn't even apparent until you have a close look. The yellowish legs and the reddish eyering point to Lesser Black-backed but the underwing pattern of that species has not yet developed as the flight feathers have not moulted into adult. The small amounts of dark in the tail and some immature feathers on the underwing indicate that this bird is probably a second summer - in its third calendar year, making it hatched in 2022
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.
Two Penn Central Alco's team up with two Lehigh Valley ones to move an ore jennies train. This is a case of where I should have done some better labeling as it's really kind of a puzzler now as to what this train is doing. It's labelled for date and "Cleveland", but I don't recognize the location at all anymore. I vaguely think it was some kind of repositioning move on the belt but don't recall for sure. Any locals that know, please do chime in!
It looks like a cloudywing or duskywing butterfly to me, but there's absolutely nothing in Fielding's Butterflies of North America like it. Is it a rare butterfly that followed the Painted Ladies north when they migrated by the billions... or is it a moth? Two views of the same moth for your consideration.
EDIT: Well, heckydarn! I was hoping this was some sort of rare duskywing, but someone over at inaturalist ID'd it as the moth Euclidia ardita, which doesn't have an English common name. At least it's a rare moth, this is the third picture of one on Flickr.
Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve, in the Coast Range hills near Winters, California. April 20, 2019.
It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
-Dr. Seuss
December 4th
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
— Dr. Seuss (How the Grinch Stole Christmas!)
Well, like the title says you supply your own narrative.
I would use examples like this in classes I taught. Looking at the pics the viewer was to construct a narrative as to what is happening and what is the context of this picture.
I'm not sure what etiquette requires in such a situation. Do I give and answer to action and context of the photo? Or not? Well, that certainly is a puzzler, isn't it?
Meanwhile, at Jerry's apartment...
Jerry: "HEY! What is with the muddy footprints!?"
Kramer: "Yeah... ah, what footprints?"
...laughter...
Jerry: "These footprints! All over the floor!"
Elaine: "Well, Jerry, it's been raining outside."
Jerry: "So we don't have doormats?? Why, yes, we do!"
George: "Your doormat was full."
...laughter...
Jerry: "My doormat was full??"
Kramer: "Yeah, yeah it was full."
Elaine: "Jerry, we tried but it was kind of... yeah, full. Every time we stepped on it, more muddy water came out."
Jerry: "This is grossing me out!!"
...laughter...
Jerry: "But, what's really freaking me out is this! Kramer, I see your disgusting boot prints headed right to the cereal!"
Kramer: "Oh! Well, uh..."
...laughter...
Jerry: "George, Elaine, I see your prints too. But who walked in here barefoot!?"
Elaine: "Oh! That is odd."
Kramer: "Yeah... that's a puzzler..."
...laughter...
George: "They go right into the bedroom."
Jerry: "EVERYBODY OUT! Or, no, I'm leaving and all of you stay and find out who that is!"
Elaine: "Jerry, don't freak out!!"
Jerry: "I'M FREAKIN OUT! Some naked person is in my apartment!"
George: "Naked?? We just know they're barefoot."
Jerry: "That's close enough!"
...laughter...
...applause...
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Funko
Mini Moments
Seinfeld - Jerry's Apartment
Jerry
George
Kramer
Elaine
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss
When the round shiny object first appeared in the snow, it was a real Antarctic puzzler. But when Pickles investigates, he finds such a handsome fellow inside! Clearly the mystery object is an instant friend generator.
Smile on Saturday: Mirror or mirror glass
-Glass penguin figure is about 1.5" / 4 cm high.
-Snow is a thin sheet of packing foam.
-The small round mirror is one I've been saving for the right photo!
Many will recall between November 2021 and January 2022, I worked closely with the Great Central Railway (GCR) Leicestershire, and a 'High Quality' Jigsaw Manufacturer to pilot and produce two 1,000 piece puzzles as forerunners to a 'Brand Series', to help raise further monies towards the railway's ongoing 'Re-unification Project' reconnecting the two halves of the Great Central Railway and joining them to the UK's National Rail Network.
The earlier images showing the project's progress posted in January 2022 and can also be found in my GCR Album.
42 of each design were produced - with now only a few of each remaining - having been sold worldwide!
Based on their considerable success four other designs by other photographers were introduced - including a 500 piece one.
Mine were launched last January at GCR's Winter Steam Gala and the later ones In March. I bought both as Birthday Presents for my wife who is an 'Avid Puzzler'. Thought you might like to see these two Diptychs, taken earlier this year, showing her efforts and the 'Final Pieces of the Puzzles'.
Pardon the pun!
With the weather the way it was on our first visit to Split Rock (as seen in the previous stream photo), a second visit was definitely in order. That visit came two years later, and the lighthouse is seen here again from a distance, at a location fairly close to our camping spot in Split Rock State Park.
Trivia location details: What to actually call the location here is a puzzler sort of, because it's often listed as "Split Rock" but that township isn't actually here. Then the mailing address is Two Harbors, but that's a fair distance south. Myself, I labelled my slides as south of Beaver Bay, and now I see the Flickr map is also going with that, so I'm changing it to the same. Too many details on this stuff, but usually with railroad shots and not lighthouse pictures.
While waiting for the traffic lights to change, I noticed this figure on the corner. Is he a real person? He wasn't moving at all. Could "he" be just a well-made replica? Too bad I didn't have time to come closer and check.
Fancy a brain puzzler? What do you think this ball is used for? The only initial clues are that the photo was taken in Cornwall and that the object is about the size of an adult fist. As always, both the serious and the not so serious suggestions are welcome!
I suppose that, prior to each trip to the States, I draw up my own personal bingo card of things I'd like to see. You know, a Warbonnet or three, Canadian units way too far south, a heritage unit or two, you get the idea.
An Amtrak train at Barstow? Nah. The city is served by the Southwest Chief, departing daily at 3.45am for Los Angeles, and 9.45pm for Chicago. It tends to be on the dark side at those times, forget the eastbound because it would have to stupidly late to see daylight at Barstow, perhaps with the westbound you may occasionally have a shout, it doesn't take too much Amtrak wackiness for three hours late after all...
So this caught me completely unawares. Amtrak at three in the afternoon is just a bit too leftfield for my brain to cope with.
To be frank, it is actually a bit of a puzzler. I got no idea where this came from, nor where it was going to, I can only guess that it was some sort of stock transfer. I hope it was LA bound via the Cajon Pass, I'm going to be mighty pissed if I find out it was going to Bakersfield because that means it would have turned right at Barstow and gone through Mojave, possibly in daylight. Seeing an Amtrak at Mojave in any light isn't bingo card, it's bucket list.
The westbound Chief is cancelled because of the inclement weather further east, perhaps it was something to do with that? But if this could get through, why not the Chief?
Whatever, the welcome sight of silver 'n blue fills the lens at West Daggett CA on 15 January 2024.
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