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Found these four snail shells in our village's garden when I was doing a craft fair there, close together but not so neatly arranged. I have a real thing for spirals...
A snail shell that I found while walking down the boardwalk and put on the weatherbeaten railing. To me, it did look like spun gold in the early morning light!
An empty snail shell that I found in our side yard. I had noticed it there a day or two before, and I was happy that it was still in the same spot when I made the time to take a picture of it.
Glück gehabt Bürschchen. Fast bin ich auf meinem Heimweg auf dich draufgestiegen.
Lucky guy. Nearly stepped on him on my way home.
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Seem to be running into a lot of snails out in the world.
I'm sure if I was some sort of prescient I'd fondle some meaning out of the coincidence, but mostly it's just curiouser and curiouser.
Detail of a portion of a miniature Japanese Fairy garden with a sedum, elfin Thyme, Hot and Spicy Oregano, String of Pearls, a rock, some lichen and some driftwood.
Early fall I made my first terrarium. I decided to use moss as the only plant. I love moss. I don't know why I love moss, I just do.* I have never made a terrarium before. I collect rocks and bits of nature so this is one view. There are 2 miniature Chinese pottery pieces that I bought in Chicago's China Town, a bridge and a Temple. The rocks are supposed to represent mountains.
Sadly a flood somehow occured and the whole garden became mush. I was terribly busy and couldn't fix it for weeks. I lost lots of the moss (I got it from our back yard). It gave me an opportunity to re-landscape it and the Temple that had originally ended up to high is now in a better spot. However I lost a lot of the moss... Time, I hope, will help it to become pretty*...
The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
According to wiki this is a Cepaea hortensis, thats white lipped snail to you and me. it was sitting on a very gnarly looking tree on a cemetary on the outskirts of bergen. Dont know what kind of tree this is but they are quite scary looking, almost tormented . Will post more pics as i prosess them. This is a 3 exposure Hdr, cropped and flipped, adjusted levels and made the shell just a tad brighter. I really like the way the sky came out completely bland grey like that. *update -yikes! that burned out part between the sky and the wood was not there in photoshop, must investigate. Most likely jpg compression artifacts.
I was staring out my back door one early spring day and I noticed some small birds flying in and out of my clothes pin holder. Uh-Oh they are building a nest in my clothes pin holder, so I went out there to bring it inside, I found a ton of little sticks inside. I pulled them out and reached into the corner and felt it, a full nest. :( I had destroyed their nest. I quickly went inside and found an old pillow case, I made it into the rough shape of the clothes pin holder and hung it up where the holder was and placed the nest carefully in the back corner, exactly where they had it in the pin holder. . After about a week, I saw them again. They had accepted my pillowcase. I listened as the little baby birds squeaked for mom, I was out there on the patio with a friend and her daughter when the birds left the nest clumsily and magically. I have watched them fly with a group of other birds and graze in my yard. I hardly see them anymore. Here is their nest. I am buying some nice birdhouses for next spring and not leaving my clothes pin holder out all winter.
Lone, empty snail shell illuminated by the morning light on a large lake- side rock caught my eye. Obviously not much going on. :)
How unusual. An Osmia with a red abdomen. Very rare. Also as a cool aside. This one also nests in snail shells. Collected by Jelle Devalez on the Aegean islands of Greece. Pictures taken by Maggie Yuan. Shopping by Elizabeth Garcia.
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Early fall I made my first terrarium. I decided to use moss as the only plant. I love moss. I don't know why I love moss, I just do.* I have never made a terrarium before. I collect rocks and bits of nature so this is one view. There are 2 miniature Chinese pottery pieces that I bought in Chicagos China Town, a bridge and a Temple. This rock is supposed to represent a mountain.
Sadly a flood somehow occured and the whole garden became mush. I was terribly busy and couldn't fix it for weeks. I lost lots of the moss (I got it from our back yard). It gave me an opportunity to re-landscape it and the Temple that had originally ended up to high is now in a better spot. However I lost a lot of the moss... Time, I hope, will help it to become pretty*...