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I'm painting some of my exterior doors and trim and did some scraping ahead of time. This door had thick heavy paint, but below it was the bare wood showing the saw marks on the old wood. The bright green was the color when we bought the house.
EcoTimber hand-scraped flooring is genuinely scraped by hand - not "distressed" by machinery; for a rustic, old-world aesthetic. Featured here in Hickory Spice.
All the houses, people, and lives stuffed into a single enormous building; scraping the sky, reaching higher than the moon, going upwards to heaven. Does this closeness make us closer or does it tear us more and more apart? Can we jump over the moon from the top?
What do you think?
Textures by skeletalmess.
PLEASE, don't paste comment codes, I prefer to know what you think!
I saw a doe run across a pasture road in front of me and suspected a buck was chasing her, so pulled over and got set up on the opening where she came out of the timber. This eleven-point buck soon emerged, but put on the brakes at the edge and hit this scrape a couple of licks. Then took off in pursuit of the doe again.
I used to HATE this spoon when I was growing up. Although I know probability surely dictated otherwise, it seemed like the utensil always got placed at my table setting. The scraped portion (caused by falling down into the spinning post at the bottom of the dishwasher) feels super weird in your mouth when you take a bite of food with it.
But those are childhood memories. Today, I love this spoon because of my childhood experience with it—especially since it once again ended up at my place setting tonight.
Glaciers are rivers of ice. Ice is a mineral (H2O). Glacial ice is a rock (technically, a metamorphic rock). Despite being solid, ice does flow under certain conditions at the Earth’s surface. Occasionally, Earth experiences Ice Ages, during which extensive ice sheets cover and move over significant portions of the Earth’s surface. As ice moves over landmasses, it erodes underlying rocks and picks up small to large pieces of debris. This debris accumulates at the base of the ice sheet and scrapes bedrock as the glacier moves, resulting in glacial scratches (glacial striations) (= thin scratch lines on rock) and glacial grooves (= large channels incised in rock).
The world-class glacial grooves seen here were incised on Devonian fossiliferous limestone during the Pleistocene (= last Ice Age).
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From public signage:
GLACIAL GROOVES STATE MEMORIAL
Welcome to the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. This memorial, consisting of three and one-half acres on Kelleys Island, has been administered by the Ohio Historical Society since 1932.
Impressive in size and shape, these glacial grooves are of great geologic significance as well. Approximately 25,000 years ago, when the climate was much cooler and wetter, a great continental glacier flowed from Canada into northern Ohio. After the climate warmed and the ice melted (about 10,000 years ago), this island retained a spectacular reminder of the glacier’s presence here -- these huge glacial grooves, which had been carved in the limestone bedrock by the action of the advancing glacier.
Due to their size and ease of accessibility, these are the most famous glacial grooves in the world. Since this formation was discovered over a century ago, it has been an object of fascination to students, vacationers, and scientists alike. Geologists have studied these grooves for many years in an effort to determine exactly how they were carved by the glacier. Several theories have been proposed, but there is still no entirely satisfactory explanation.
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1977
OTHER GROOVES
Have you noticed any other glacial grooves on Kelleys Island? There are still more grooves, mostly smaller than those featured here, to be found throughout the island area as well as on the mainland. Several examples of grooves, striations, and planed surfaces may be found in the Kelleys Island State Park along the north shore of the island just north of the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. Some very spectacular grooves which were destroyed during quarrying operations on the island were called the “Great Grooves”. These grooves extended for at least 2,000 feet with maximum measurements estimated at 15 feet in depth and 30 feet in width.
ISLAND HISTORY
The human history of Kelleys Island is estimated to extend back to the early 1600s. There is evidence that during that time the island was the home of at least two Indian villages, probably of the Erie (or Cat) nation, which was annihilated by the Iroquois in 1665. The petroglyphs of Inscription Rock, on the south shore of the island, were probably carved over a period of years by the Eries and may describe certain important events in their history.
A man named Cunningham is believed to have been the first white man to inhabit the island, living here from about 1800 until about 1812.
The island became the property of the Connecticut Land Company in about 1817 and was divided into 13 lots which were given to stockholders in the Company. In 1833 the Kelley brothers, Datus and Irad, immigrants to the Cleveland area from Connecticut, began to buy the parcels of land and soon owned the entire island. The Kelleys and their families began developing the island and its industries - wine-making, quarrying, logging, fruit-growing, and fishing - as well as encouraging the cultural enrichment of the inhabitants.
Eventually the island, previously known as Cunningham Island, or island No. 6, became known as Kelleys Island.
BEDROCK JOINTS
The straight cracks running across the grooves are called joints. Joints usually form in sedimentary rocks, such as this limestone, as a result of the application or release of pressure on the bedrock. It is not known exactly how these joints were formed, but we can be fairly certain that some pressure change occurring before the advance of the glacier responsible for the grooves was a major factor in the formation of the joints.
FOSSILS
The fossils found in the bedrock of Kelleys Island are the remains of plants and animals which lived in Ohio many thousands of years ago when the area was covered by a shallow saltwater ocean. When these marine organisms died, they settled to the bottom where they became embedded in soft sediments. Later, as these sediments hardened into limestone bedrock, the remains of the organisms were preserved in place. Fossils of many kinds are very abundant in the limestone of Kelleys Island, and can be seen almost everywhere if you look very closely.
Fossils are very useful to scientists in the study of early life forms, climate, environment, evolution, and the relative ages of different rock layers.
THE QUARRY [= adjacent to this site]
This quarry is one of several now-abandoned quarries to be found on Kelleys Island. At one time quarrying was a major industry on the island and the fine quality limestone found here was highly valued for its many uses. It was cut to shape for buildings, removed in large blocks for the construction of piers and breakwaters, burned to make lime, and crushed for use as flux in the production of steel.
Kilns and crushers were built on the island in the early 1900s and the industry reached its peak in 1918. By this time most of the quarries were owned by the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Company. By 1941, however, most of the quarries had closed due to the opening of quarries in Michigan which could supply limestone less expensively.
One unfortunate aspect of the old quarrying industry was the destruction of many very spectacular grooves, some of which were more impressive than the ones exposed here today.
The long vertical marks on the quarry walls were made by the drills used in quarrying operations. Before the use of machine drills and explosives, the holes were hand-drilled and pieces of green wood were packed into the holes. Water was then poured into the holes and the wood absorbed the water and expanded. The resulting pressure caused large sections of the rock to be broken loose from the quarry wall.
THE TRIBUTARY
Notice the small branch of the grooves extending away from the main grooves. Although no one knows for certain just how this feature was formed, it is sometimes cited as an argument in favor of the theory that the grooves were formed as glacial ice reshaped an earlier stream channel. If this were the case, this branch would represent a tributary stream which once flowed into the main stream, represented by the main grooves. The glacial ice, which is quite plastic at its base, would have molded itself to the existing stream channel. While confining most of its grinding and rasping to the channels of this former stream and its tributaries, it widened, smoothed, and deepened the channel, thus giving it its present shape and form.
According to one theory, the tremendous grinding force resulting from the convergence of ice and a large concentration of debris in the confined space of the stream channel produced the extensive grooving seen here.
GROOVE DETAILS
The grooves, which for the most part are straight, are marked in many places with some very interesting details. The most noticeable in this spot is the tortuous winding of some of the smaller grooves and scratches, possibly due to pre-glacial or sub-glacial stream flow. This features was also noticed in some of the photographs of the “Great Grooves”, and others that have now been destroyed.
There are sections where the rock seems to be undercut, and places where the formations indicate that the ice flowed around melon-shaped knobs, possibly due to some obstruction such as broken joints in the bedrock. In many places you may notice small grooves superimposed on larger grooves. It is common to see very fine scratches or striations on the limestone, probably caused by the scraping of sand parrticles in the glacier’s base.
When the grooves were uncovered for the first time, after thousands of years under several feet of soil and debris, a high polish was noticed on some of the rocks. This polish was most likely procued by the scraping of clay. Soon after the rock was exposed the polish disappeared due to weathering. Weathering also caused the pitted effect noticed on some parts of the grooves. It is believed that these pitted areas were exposed to the weather once before, many years ago, and were later covered again until the most recent exposure was made.
All these details are helpful to scientists in determining how the ice sculpted the grooves. Many clues are provided here, but the challenge lies in their correct interpretation.
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Stratigraphy: Columbus Limestone, Eifelian Stage, lower Middle Devonian
Locality: Glacial Grooves State Park, northwestern Kelleys Island, western Lake Erie, Ohio, USA
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I was inspired to crop this photo vertically to showcase the height of these buildings. I'm happy the way it turned out.
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I'm hard at work scraping 50 year old paint (probably with a high lead content) off this desert cabin. Fun stuff! [photo by G.B.]
Ilustración para una banda de rock alternativo. No es el trabajo final pero es el que más me gusta.
(c) 2011
Tow truck to San Juan = $500
or
Fix radiator (flush it, fill it, replace a clip) = $40 + buy a new headlight and bend the drivers side wing to fit it = $115.
I'll fix it and drive it. kthxbai.
Yes, this photo really was taken on 5th October 2012.
Several waiting passengers were discussing a breakdown earlier in the day, and Arriva put out 7624, an ex-London Country Volvo Olympian in yellow livery (driver training ?) in revenue service on Gravesend-Chatham route 136.
The bus is seen here at Gravesend Garrick Street.
I remember commuting on these vehicles when they were brand new with London Country on the 409.
I rode on this bus to Rochester where I saw a sister vehicle, 7630, also in yellow livery, in service on the 191 to Grain.
It had rained the day before, followed by a drop of about 60 degrees overnight, causing everything to turn to ice. By noon the next day it was up to 11 degrees and super windy, and so scraping the solid ice off our car was a twenty-minute ordeal...
Newly made diamond dressing tool.
I've got two diamond points, one rough and the other actually diamond shapedd.
Inevitably on different sized shanks.
The black colour is from a treatment of gunsmiths blue, and the brass thumbscrews again home made.
Gua Sha is a form of dermabrasion using a hand-held scraper to irritate and inflame various regions of the JingLuo's dermal areas. It is frequently used to treat invasion by seasonal external pathogens.
It is an ancient Chinese medical treatment where they use bone plates and rub against the skin to create heat and open up the pores therefore releases all the waste or toxins in your body. Most people do this when they have a fever, stomachache, digestive problems, muscle injury, and stress. The red marks looks bad, but it actually shows more toxin. It doesn't hurt at all. It's better than meds because its all natural.
Using a traditional specialized tool such as a Gua Sha Board, Gua Sha Slide or other Gua Sha tools, the massage therapist or acupuncturist will gently scrape or rub the skin over a problem area as a deep massage, using a downward direction. A gentle scraping of the skin surface using a GuaSha tool to increase circulation of Qi and blood. It release muscle tension, tightness and constriction.The patient experiences immediate relief from pain, stiffness, fever, chills, coughs, nausea, and so on. Gua Sha is valuable in the prevention and treatment of acute infectious illness, upper respiratory and digestive problems, and many other acute or chronic disorders.
Scrape Governing Vessel (Dou Mai) as it controls all Yang meridians to release cold and wind, soothes away pain.
The purpose of Gua Sha is to raise the "rash" or red petechiae through the firm but not violent friction of the tool against the body. Chi or Qi (pronounced “chee”) is the constant and vigorous movement of energy or life force that keeps us healthy and alive. Balancing the Chi, in Traditional Chinese Medicine, promotes blood circulation and the removal of toxic heat, stagnant blood and lymph fluid from the body.
IN THE SYSTEM OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE, GUA SHA CAN BE USED TO ALLEVIATE THE FOLLOWING:
- Colds, Congestion
- Achiness
- Chronic degenerative diseases
- Migraines
- Chronic neck pain
- Chronic shoulder pain
- Back pain
- Bone spurs
- Strains and sprains
- Menstrual disorders
- Insomnia, Fatigue
- Asthma
- Carpal tunnel syndrome Stress
- Muscle aches
- Flu
- Shortness of Breath
- Heart disease
- Hypertension
- Sinusitis
- Ear and eye disorders
- Chronic infections
- Sciatica
- Osteo-arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Bursitis
- Neuralgia
- Digestive disorders
- Skin disorders