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Calidris acuminata
11 Nov 2016
CA, LA Co., LA River at Willow Street
Found by Bob Schallman earlier in the day
THE TALE often told about Michelangelo forming a statue speaks of how spiritual formation takes place in the heart:
~The Lion in the Marble~
There was once a sculptor who worked hard with hammer and chisel on a large block of marble. A little child who was watching him saw nothing more than large and small pieces of stone falling away left and right. He had no idea what was happening. But when the boy returned to the studio a few weeks later, he saw, to his surprise, a large, powerful lion sitting in the place where the marble had stood. With great excitement, the boy ran to the sculptor and said, “Sir, tell me, how did you know there was a lion in the marble?” (an Old Jewish Tale)
The little boy’s question to the sculptor is a very real one, perhaps the most important question of all. The answer is, “I knew there was a lion in the marble because before I saw the lion in the marble, I saw him in my own heart.
-Spiritual Direction,
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Little Hiddles finally has a body! It took a bit of doing, getting the bits to fit together right, and then getting the clothes to lay right, but he looks quite the dapper tiny plastic gentleman, wouldn't you say?
I was iffy about that head with its somber expression and lack of facial hair, but seeing him put together, well, I love him to bits.
Showbus 2018 took place in Derbyshire at Donington Park on September 30th. Buses and coaches attending included preserved Sharpes of Nottingham Volvo B10M-61 / Van Hool Alizee C53F D51LWW. This coach was new to Brown of Helperby in 1987.
And a new one for me ACZ103 a Vanhool TX11 Alicron C41FT at Buses Festival. All the Vanhools in this fleet are Daf Powered .Photo taken 08/08/21
Sharpes of Nottingham Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse RIG6495 (GN06EVP) is seen working route 300 to Lowdham on 29/07/2022. This route is due to pass to CT4N next Monday.
I will never be able to understand how wearing your pants around your knees is cool. I can just imagine this guy trying to go to a job interview dressed like this. Definitely not a sign of intelligence if you ask me.
Taken from underneath, using a glass floor, the plan was to get some interesting shots of the pups. This is one of my favourites!
Strobist info, 3 light set up. Main light 580ex through softbox camera left at 1/8 power, fill 580ex bare at 1/16th power and 580ex high, pointing at the ceiling on full power, Triggered by pocket wizards.
Great back end on this radio. I just love the large automotive fins and tail lights. Less rocketship and more 1957 Chevy or Chrysler.
These rear, plastic tail lights rarely survived - either falling out or being pulled out, depending on the type of usage the radio had to endure.
After countless days of gloomy weather, the sun has finally emerged from behind the dark grey clouds early in the morning. With the strong light emitted by the scorching sun, it enhanced the architectural design of the ArtScience Museum located at the very heart of Marina Bay Sands.
Despite the fact that the ArtScience Museum is shaped like a lotus, a cleavage of a gigantic architecture could be seen and hence, the name ‘Sharp Division’.
On a hot and sunny afternoon, PUNE WDM-3D #11176 hauls bi-weekly 22845 Pune-Hatia SF towards Ahmednagar through Ranjangaon
Dorothea Sharp (1874 - 1955) was born in Dartford in Kent in 1874 but it was not until the age of twenty-one that she began her artistic education in earnest. She first studied at the art school run by C. E. Johnson in Richmond, Surrey and later spent some time at the Regent Street Polytechnic. She soon moved to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the work of the Impressionists, which is evident in the spontaneous style and strong sense of colour and light that she is so well known for. Techniques, such as outlining figures with bright colours, were also adopted by Sharp after seeing the paintings of Matisse and van Gogh.
Sharp exhibited regularly throughout her career at many institutions including the Royal Academy. She was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1907 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1922 and also was President for four years of the Society of Women Artists. She held her first one woman show at the Connell gallery in 1933. Dorothea Sharp was a landscape and still life painter but is best known for her pictures of children which are frequently shown on the beaches of Cornwall where she lived near St. Ives. The artist died on 17th December 1955.
[Oil on canvas, 33 x 33 inches]