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The pilgrim symbol of the scallop shell. Rue de la Citadelle, St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France.A welcome sight for the thirsty pilgrim on the way to Santiago de Compostella by this well-travelled road towards the high pass of Roncevaux.
Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
Some great shells from the local clams. Beautiful patterns and colors. Photo taken on the beach of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
One of the few Shell stations in the Toronto area that has service bays in a modernized ranch station! It's right across the road from Pearson International Airport
Perhaps because seashells are so inappropriate in a rainforest mountain garden, they appear randomly and unexpectedly in ours
Photos made for blog post about shell script that dynamically splits output into files while processing.
Blog post: blog.christiaan008.com/2015/11/08/dynamic-splitting-outpu...
The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Uadaypur sea beach (3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 100 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India
KARACHI: July 16 ? A lady busy in collecting shells spreading at Clifton Beach in Provincial Capital City. APP photo by Jahangir Khan
This is LEGO(R) model 377 Shell Station or Shell Service Station from 1978. It is a Town set released and contains a Shell gas station, a car and two mini-figures.
The strings were done using the rope macro by Chris Bartlet. They came out okay, but I probably could have played some more with the "lay over" feature to make drape more over the bricks.
I also used blob for the first time to create the female pigtail object. It came out pretty good, although you can't really see it in this photo. I'm rendering 386 Air Ambulance again with the correct hair piece to see if it looks as good when less obscured.
Picture taken 11/28/24
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