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Since Hogwarts is my home, staying home for Christmas seems to be not so bad ...
I always liked this time of the year, the snowy silence full of expectations, the soft tinking of bells, occasionally interrupted by singing armours or suddenly swooping snowballs.
Although there is still much homework to do, I'm really looking forward to one of our pleasurable Christmas traditions and the best sport ever : Base-jumping in the restricted section!
But first we have to get our portkey to Stonehenge to celebrate the Solstice and the Christmas Star in the Great Conjunction 🌠 - oh, what a night!
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Happy Solstice & Merry Christmas!
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I did have help from Google and Youtube...........so here you have a 65mm Cube, Blood Sweat and Tears !
they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends :-)
Arnot Sheppard
HPPT!! Liberty and Justice for all!! Resist! Vote!
hybrid camellia, 'Egao Corkscrew', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Solving puzzles is a hobby, addiction or compulsiveness? This is not as easy as it seems the maze pass is just barely big enough for the BB to fall through and really easy to come back out LOL. It is a close up, the puzzle is right at 3 inch across. I thought it was too big so quartered the puzzle to a 1-1/2 inch square frame to make it macro.
As I walked the short, beautiful trail along the Sturgeon River to Canyon Falls, I came across this gentleman. Like most of us photographers, he is coming to a decision on how he wants to capture the scene . . . usually quite differently than someone capturing a 'selfie' . . .
"You did the right thing, yeah
When you went and looked my way
I know, I know what you wanna say
You wrote it all on your face
(On, on, your)
Just beam me up, beam me up, leave me, don't bring me down
You've been fighting from the gallows
The shadows just come on out
(But you know)
It's all good when it's all bad
Be hurting all day but it's all math
You're losing your brain
And falling right back
It's all good when it's all bad
Been looking all day but it's all math
Just solve the equation
Get it all back." - QUIÑ ♫
Cette galaxie, présente dans notre ciel pour plusieurs mois encore, est difficilement discernable avec une paire de jumelles, mais accessible avec un instrument astronomique.
Addition de 24 prises de 4mn à 800iso, avec un canon 350D défiltré, monté sur une lunette Orion 80ED600 avec filtre CLS.
Photos prises le 12 août 2018 à Valdrôme.
2018-08-12_M33_350D_80ED600_25x4mn-800a_D19-F0B0_Vald_002-01b2
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Hi my friends !!! I will move with my family to another house, safer and far from the road.
Yes, it's true :-)
After 15 years in this house with a wonderful view in front of the sea (but next to a very dangerous road), the next week we will move to another home. It is not only for my cats, it's also for me, for my mental health.
At the begining, the noisy summertime lasted only about two months, july and august. But these last years, those problems happen between may and october. It's too long, half year. The majority of spanish people are very irresponsible and not well educated. Young people on holiday with their noisy motorbikes making races. Nobody respect the speed limit (40 km/h), cars go too fast, even 100-120 km/h. It's a very long and straight street. Could you believe that this saturday night, a car had a big accident against a street light, down my house (it's the 3rd time). The staff of the council house shows a great lack of desire for solve this problem.
Then, we will move to another home in the rear streets of the village. We will be very good there.
For this reason, I will not have time to post new photos, maybe until august. Anyway, I will try to watch flickr and your new uploads.
Had a very good summer my friends !!!
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There were two of these gorgeous trees in full bloom at Lake St. Clair Metropark. The leaves looked like chestnut trees but the flowers were colored like buckeye tree flowers. Both of those trees have large palmate compound leaves. What were they, I wondered.
Later, I remembered seeing trees like these many years ago in Paris. They lined many of the streets and boulevards of Paris. There were the Horse-chestnuts with whitish flowers, and these pink/red flowers of the Red Horse-chestnut trees.
This picture is of Red Horse-chestnuts, a hybrid of Red Buckeye and Horse-chestnut...mystery solved (again).
In Explore #273 6/17/2025
World's first steam powered clock
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
In memory of Raymond Saunders who sadly passed away - November 24, 2024
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gastown-steam-clo...
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Currently, it is a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest end of Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
Best experienced in full screen.
Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Çözemezsin | Dedublüman
youtu.be/aJX6wM6-xl8?si=a73JUoAZSIdDP_tH
Ölüm gibi bir gün
Dudağımda zehir gibi
Füsun değil mi bu?
Başka türlü mümkün değil
Hayır, bu defa başka
Çözemezsin yok, bu düğüm kördür
Bak şu gönül tutuşuyor yine son birkaç gündür
Çürüyoruz bak, nefretimi gömdüm
Bil ki bugün yanıyor, soluyor ömrüm
Uyan, uyan dedim uyanmazsan bahar ölür
Sarıl, sarıl dedim sarılmazsan adam ölür
Hayır, bu defa başka
Çözemezsin yok, bu düğüm kördür
Korkmuyorum gecelerden, beni sen öldür
Çürüyorum bak, nefretini gördüm
Bil ki bugün yanıyor, soluyor ömrüm
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Today is like death,
Just like a poison on my lips
Is this not magic?
It's not possible otherwise
No, this time, it's different
You can't solve it, this knot is tangled
See, this heart is on fire again since the last few days
We go bad, look, I buried my hatred
Know that today my existence is burning, is withering
Wake up, I said wake up
If you don't, spring will die
Embrace, I said hug
If you don't, this man will die
No, this time, it's different
You can't solve it, this knot is tangled
I am not scared of nights, you shall kill me
I go bad, look, I buried your hatred
Know that today my existence is burning, is withering
Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) are highly intelligent, gregarious members of the crow family (Corvidae) known for their complex social structures, unique appearance, and remarkable problem-solving abilities that rival those of great apes.
While not known for tool manufacturing in the wild, captive rooks have shown astonishing cognitive abilities in studies. They have been observed bending wire into hooks to reach food, a skill previously thought unique to New Caledonian crows.
Rooks have been observed engaging in "anting," where they rub ants into their feathers to use the formic acid as a pesticide. More drastically, a rook has been documented holding a smouldering cigarette butt under its wing to fumigate parasites.
A group of rooks is known by several collective nouns, including a "parliament," a "clamour," a "storytelling," or a "building".
Rook (Corvus fruglegus) winter Germany 9164_
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
A Guide To Feynman Diagrams In The Many Body Problem 🎡 by Richard D. Mattuck
= My Favorite Read, amongst many. HMM
This was fun to prepare!!
Are there extraterrestrials living among us on earth? What do they do? These are the type of questions humans have debated for ages, and after a weekend at Death Valley National Park, I believe I am ready to solve them. Speculate no more, as aliens are playful creatures who, it turns out, live in the mountains around The Racetrack Playa and come out every full moon to move around rocks.
Why you might ask, would aliens do this when there are so many things they could see and do on earth? The answer is simple: to mess with tourists. It’s probably a higher calling on their planets. As the legend goes, no one has ever seen these rocks in Death Valley National Park move. Nonsense. As the hit film Men in Black taught us, aliens have the power to erase our minds. Heck, there’s a good chance I saw aliens the night I took this photo. I don’t remember seeing them, but I cannot say definitively that I did not see them....
Click to continue reading the story of this photo on my blog
Mystery Inc. taking a break from solving mysteries so they can be normal teenagers for once and have their own Halloween fun.
Finally everyone stayed put for a hot second and I was able to grab a shot of the Milky Way while it was completely dark.
^-^STORM CUTIES^-^Solve&Coagula Jumpsuit - FatPack
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
Wolf's Cave Crop
Heavy crop of the mosaic from 1.87 x 1.22 degrees to 30 x 30 arcminutes.
Reprocessed the mosaic using Drizzle data & cropped the image. this time almost entirely processed using PixInsight
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/29996416655/in/photostream/
Van den Bergh 152 aka The Wolf's Cave is a blue reflection nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. It is roughly 1400 light years away. The dust trailing the nebula is cataloged as Barnard 175. The small nebula(top right) is DeHt5.
11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)
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2 panel mosaic:
Images acquired 9/12, 9/22 & 9/24/16
2-Ha-12x300sec
2-LUM-20x120sec
2-RGB-12x120sec/each
5h 44min