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My mom has had this collection of Easter eggs for as long as I can remember. They are actual egg shells that were hand painted. The collection was a little larger but shrunk a bit through the years since they are so delicate. I decided I should get a picture just in case!
Exotic conchology : or figures and descriptions of rare, beautiful, or undescribed shells ... / by William Swainson ; edited by Sylvanus Hanely.
London : H.G. Bohn, 1841.
Shell Beach is a beach in the Shark Bay region of Western Australia, 45 kilometres south-east of Denham.
Situated on the northeastern side of the Taillefer Isthmus, it covers a 110 km long stretch of coast along the L'Haridon Bight. It is one of only two beaches in the world made entirely from shells.
The beach was named "Shell Beach" because of the great abundance of the shells of the cockle species Fragum erugatum. The seawater in the L'Haridon Bight has a high salinity due to both the geomorphology and local climate of the area. This high salinity has allowed the cockle to proliferate unchecked, since its natural predators have not adapted well to this environment.
The shells typically reach a depth of 7 to 10 metres. Over time, the shells have formed a limestone that is known as Coquina.
Before Shark Bay became a World Heritage Site, the limestone was mined and used for the construction of a number of buildings in the local town of Denham, Western Australia.
They're just ordinary rocks and shells you find while walking along the beach. But someone, with patience and creativity, has transformed these simple elements into pieces of art.
No cost, all profit. The only investment is your ability to imagine beauty and your craft's ability to make someone else feel beautiful.
Just before leaving Branson we stopped to get a picture of this car... I thought it was cool. But the rest of the place was a bit dull for my tastes. Mostly it was just a really really watered down Vegas for retirees.
I was walking along one night at my campus and came across a lamp post filled with dead ants. Interesting how the color drains from them after death.
Zillebeke village and most of the commune were in the hands of Commonwealth forces for the greater part of the First World War, but the number of cemeteries in the neighbourhood bears witness to the fierce fighting in the vicinity from 1914 to 1918. Bedford House, sometimes known as Woodcote House, were the names given by the Army to the Chateau Rosendal, a country house in a small wooded park with moats. Although it never fell into German hands, the house and the trees were gradually destroyed by shell fire. It was used by field ambulances and as the headquarters of brigades and other fighting units, and charcoal pits were dug there from October 1917. In time, the property became largely covered by small cemeteries; five enclosures existed at the date of the Armistice, but the graves from No.1 were then removed to White House Cemetery, St. Jean, and those from No.5 to Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres. ENCLOSURE No.2 was begun in December 1915, and used until October 1918. After the Armistice, 437 graves were added, all but four of which came from the Ecole de Bienfaisance and Asylum British Cemeteries, both at Ypres. ENCLOSURE No.3, the smallest, was used from February 1915 to December 1916; the burials made in August-October 1915 were largely carried out by the 17th Division. ENCLOSURE No.4, the largest, was used from June 1916 to February 1918, largely by the 47th (London) Division, and after the Armistice it was enlarged when 3,324 graves were brought in from other burial grounds and from the battlefields of the Ypres Salient. Almost two-thirds of the graves are unidentified. ENCLOSURE No.6 was made in the 1930s from the graves that were continuing to be found on the battlefield of the Ypres Salient. This enclosure also contains Second World War burials, all of them soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, who died in the defence of the Ypres-Comines canal and railway at the end of May 1940. The canal lies on high ground on the west side of the cemetery.
Conceived by artist, Maggie Hambling and made by craftsmen, Sam and Dennis Pegg, a tribute to Benjamin Britten.
Spent howitzer WWI and WWII artillery shells recorded for the new Soundiron Tuned Artillery Shells library
photo by Mike Peaslee