BALD MAN SHAVING
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The smell of fresh pencil shavings is associated with my childhood years when I constantly used HB, 2HB and colour pencils. Google tells me that this smell is cedar as it is the favoured wood for pencils as it is soft and sharpens easily without splinters.
For Macro Monday 13 September 2021 topic: Smell
The tool is an antique drawknife. A historically costumed gentleman was using it on some cut tree branches to make ax handles and walking sticks last week when I visited Kline Creek Farm, in West Chicago, Illinois. The farm is intended to depict for visitors what life on the farm was like in the 1890s. The shavings are from the branches that were being shaved. I had intended to post this image for the Crazy Tuesday "Cutting Instruments" theme this week, but life intervened, and I didn't get it posted. So here it is today for the Thursday Monochrome groups.
HMBT & HMT
Yesterday in California's Anza-Borrego Desert we found these amazing 3 mm. planthopper nymphs which I am calling Shaving Brush Bugs. We found them under rocks, where presumably they feed on exposed plant roots in that damp micro-environment. I've read several possible explanations for the waxy fibers that this and many other planthoppers have. It might discourage predators, who could end up nibbling non-tasty wax instead of yummy bug. It may disguise them as bits of fungus. Or possibly, since the nymphs drink plant fluids and are constantly excreting excess sugary honeydew, the waxy fibers might help shed the liquid (wax is hydrophobic) so the bug doesn't get "gummed up." In any case, it's quite a look.
I work with wood. These are fine beech shavings in front of a small block plane resting on its side. There is a light shining through the 'throat' of the plane - just where the blade is.
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auch eine Idee zu “Macro Mondays” Thema: “Ecke”
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For Macro Mondays theme of "Hobby."
The egg is from my hobby of wood turning and is one of the few items I have made that is small enough to qualify for the group. It's made from a local Carob tree with a total length of about 60 mm and is shown in a bed of shavings created during other wood turning projects. The color is natural and the finish is walnut oil.
It's fun to make these from small scraps and give them away to friends, relatives and acquaintances.
It's hard to shave when you don't have opposable digits.. or a shaver. This didn't stop Captain Morgan from trying though.