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Former Shell chemical sidings at Carrington. I believe the rails were only lifted in the early 2000's? Taken 02/01/13.
A conchological manual, 2nd Edition. / by G.B. Sowerby, Jun. ; illustrated by upwards of six hundred and sixty figures.
London : Henry G. Bohn ... and Sowerby ..., 1842.
Shells, peas... I couldn't resist.
Summer Pea and Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Salad on smittenkitchen.com
Actor Lucy Lawless joins Greenpeace New Zealand activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki for the remote Arctic, where its exploratory oil drilling programme threatens to devastate the Alaskan coastline. Six Greenpeace New Zealand activists, along with Lawless, famous for her roles in Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, have boarded the vessel, scaled its 53 metre drilling derrick and are hanging banners from its summit, reading ìStop Shellî and ì#SaveTheArctic.î They are equipped with survival gear and enough supplies to last for several days.
I was in Florida briefly over the weekend -- not too many photo opportunities (time constraints), but I did manage to wander down an isolated beach.
These shells were tiny -- the sand grains give a sense of scale -- and each one was perfectly formed.
I had not managed to take a Project 365 photograph during the day. I found these shells at home in the evening and decided to see if I could make a photograph out of them.
Day 202 of Project 365
From Wikipedia.
Shell Mex House is a grade II listed building situated at number 80, Strand, London, UK. The current building was built in 1930–31 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original facade of the Hotel and between the Adelphi and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by Ernest Joseph of the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph.
Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq ft (49,900 m2) of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock tower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", is the biggest clock face in the UK, and was supplied by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. It has faces looking towards the river and towards the Strand. It was described by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner as "thoroughly unsubtle, but...hold[s] its own in London's river front."
The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for which it was originally built. Shell-Mex and BP Ltd was a joint venture company created by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932 when they decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations. Upon the brand separation of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in 1975, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell UK Ltd, which was Shell's UK operating company. Changes in the way that Shell was run in the 1990s led to the disposal of the property by Shell. Today, simply known as 80 Strand, most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson PLC.
On the left hand side of the photo stands Cleopatra's Needle , one of three similarly named Egyptian obelisks and is located in the City of Westminster, on the Victoria Embankment near the Golden Jubilee Bridges. It is close to the Embankment underground station. It was presented to the United Kingdom in 1819 by the ruler of Egypt and Sudan Muhammad Ali, in commemoration of the victories of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile and Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria in 1801. Although the British government welcomed the gesture, it declined to fund the expense of transporting it to London.
Made of red granite, the obelisk stands about 21 metres (69 ft) high, weighs about 224 tons[1] and is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Balanus amphitrite (little on on the side of the biggest barnacle) and probably is Megabalanus californicus. The pinkest shells in front are from off the coast of southern California. The big one in back (with the little barnacle on its side) is another megabalanus and is from Australia. The little barnacle (sideways) is Balanus amphitrite.
One of the "shell trees" on Wild Beach at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore. Visitors like to decorate the remnants of trees, once in the marsh but now overtaken by the beach as it shifts.
Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS
Alpinia zerumbet (Light galangal, Pink porcelain lily, Shell flower, Shell ginger, Variegated ginger, Butterfly ginger, Japanese: gettō; Chinese: 艳山姜; pinyin: yàn shānjiāng) is a Chinese perennial plant of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae). Native to eastern Asia, this plant is a rhizomatous, ever green tropical perennial that grows in upright clumps 8–10 feet tall in tropical climates. It bears funnel-formed flowers. Flowers have large yellow petals with red spots and stripes. There are three stamens, but only one has pollen. There is one pistil.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The first light of the day illuminates the snowy Bighorn Mountains on a frigid November morning. This view is from Shell Creek Road near Lake DeSmet.
Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon, In an attempt to block the Shell leased icebreaker, MSV Fennica July 29, 2015. The climbers are currently preventing the ship from passing underneath the bridge on its way to meet Shell’s drilling fleet. The climbers have enough supplies to last for several days. According to the latest federal permit, the Fennica must be at Shell’s drill site before Shell can reapply for federal approval to drill deep enough for oil in the Chukchi Sea.
July 28, 2017
An old broken whelk is open at the end revealing the inner chambers of the shell. A nautiloid shape is revealed in the negative of the center of the cutaway.
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