I am spent

Macro Monday - Rust. The sun highlighted by son's rusty old scooter in the backyard.

Have a listen to a fellow Canuck ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RZY4Ar3fw

Many more 'insomniacs' can be viewed in the first comment box below.

- Ferro, Portugal -

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A screw on the garden gate. I didn't have much to choose from this week and not an awful lot of time. for Macro Mondays 'Rust' theme.

During my buddy Harvey's recent visit, I gave him a serious dose of historic gold mining sites with a side order of blacksmiths. Harv was continually on the lookout for that elusive 5 lb. gold nugget. Alas, he was sorely out of luck on that count, however he did get a nice exposure to rust. What do you expect from 19th century historical mining sites? More on those blacksmiths later.

Happy May Day everyone.

Empire Mine, Grass Valley CA

Details of the remains of a Dutch hoe returning to the earth.

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Old bike chain and chainring.

This is a close-up photo of patterns of rust on an iron panel on the wharf at Port Maitland Beach. There is a suggestion in the bluish shape of a pareidolia portrait profile.

This is a B&W photo of rust stains on the side of a furnace oil tank that suggest strange marine lifeforms.

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Sewer Cover explored

Overland Park (OP), KS

Porsche 356

Taken at the sawmill.

Have a nice week.

A downspout on a century-old building

An old rusty joint between post and gate with a cobweb.

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Stovepipe Wells

Death Valley

California

the bell is now off the bike...continuing on the bell theme from last week!

Rural letter boxes are my theme for today. You see, I have a firm belief that people living in rural areas have far too much time on their hands, and this leads to time-wasting and the construction of frivolous letter boxes like the ones posted here today. You will see them along the highways and country roads all over Australia. This rusted tractor is a fine example of a job half done; not a drop of paint to be seen as it rusts way beside a country road. Mind you, a bush fires swept through a week earlier, everything was burned but the letter box.

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Not hard to find subjects for macros on this theme - in a wet climate like here, rust is all around.

This is on the base of a fire pit - bolt connecting the bowl and leg of the firepit.

It lives outside ...but looking at this. maybe it would have fared better in the garage over the winter!

Echo & The Bunnymen - Rust

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bx1TUqmsDQ

Sea Groyne, Dover

Fleetwood Walkabouts

Rivers of Steel: Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Pittsburgh, PA

rust never sleeps

basura enterrada y peligrosa

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Hampshire

Part of the top of a very rusty post at the beach . See pic in comments.

Manistee, Michigan

Mamiya 645

Kodak Ektar

A pleasant morning walk on Burghead beach. I could not resist taking a pic of the rusted ‘Children’s Hope’ berthed in the harbour. The photographer on the cliff added a little balance to the image.…

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Just as iron rusts from disuse...

even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

(Leonardo da Vinci)

Crazy Tuesday - Rust

(photo by Freya)

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For Macro Mondays

Theme:Rust

Metal ring of diameter of 2,2cm.

Have a great week, my friends!

HMM!

rusting old truck in Johnson City, Texas

Macro Mondays: Rust

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