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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
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 !
“Black-headed Grosbeak parents fly south with worn feathers after breeding season. Their molting locations had been a mystery. The California scientists solved it with relatively inexpensive Global Positioning System (GPS) receiving devices.
They attached the 1-gm electronic devices to a leg of each grosbeak. The devices wake up every 2-6 weeks, record the GPS position and switch off. The GPS device, leg harness and leg bands weigh less than 2 g, or the equivalent of a long-distance runner carrying a laptop in a backpack. Each bird must be recaptured to download the data.” Topbirdingtours.com
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.
"So much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow"
William Carlos Williams
When I walked the dog today, the wheelbarrow was gone. There's "no ideas but in things", but things just disappear. Meanwhile I know what the quote means to me and maybe what it means to others, but still I don't know how to translate it into German. Luckily I don't need to.
The point in translation and as well in photography is to make others believe you solved an equation, like a=b-x, but neither translation nor photography is like mathematics.
Still I try hard every day.
"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 ♫
Worship will get you through the toughest times in your life because it shifts your focus from the problems to the problem solver.
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In front of the large Santa Hat mountain, Santa and Son have a conversation. Not about the flowers and the bees, but about the reindeer.
Yesterday there was a disturbing article in the 'Origami Newspaper', with a photo of another Santa, who traveled with his elephant, to be in the human world in time.
Below is only a fragment of their conversation, the rest is strictly secret.
"Well, my son, at the beginning of your first journey as Santa Claus, I'm so sorry to tell you that there are no reindeer at your disposal this year unfortunately ."
"Yes, I've already heard something like that," said the son.
"They have taken a sabbatical this year to be able to think in peace about the trouble in the world, the hectic life and how to deal with it," continued Dad.
The son nodded again. "Don't worry, Dad, it's going to be okay. I've already thought about how to solve this with friends, at least for this Christmas."
"Ahh, so great to hear, I knew I could count on you. Wish you the best of luck and keep me posted, will you?'
Again the son nodded.
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Model: origami Babbo Natale 2016/ origami Santa Claus 2016
Design: Francesco Miglionico
Diagrams in QQM-magazine #63 'Buon Origami' by Francesco Miglionico
Paper:
- Santa: 7,5x15cm red kami
- Son: 5x10cm red kami
Final size:
- Santa: height 13cm
- Son: 7cm
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
Wisconsin Northern L2 spots tanks and plastic hoppers next to the faded C&NW station sign in Bloomer, Wisconsin with an ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2 for power.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
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The other night for my photo of the Ferris Wheel, I mentioned frustrations I was having with getting the IR remote shutter release working. I was determined to fix it or ditch it....and fix it I did. In celebration we had a Mexican dinner down at Redcliffe where I shot this scene of the quite low light on the Jetty across the road. It was only 6.00pm, we got away early. Winter!
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
I saw the photo at zwaik's photostream and immediately saw the possiblities (and shamelessly downloaded it for my own nefarious purposes; I hope he doesn't mind).
Calgary area, AB
These little Semipalmated Sandpipers were the predominate shorebird with the White-Rumped Sandpipers in with them. They look similar but are a bit smaller with a shorter black bill but from afar hard to distinguish. These Semipalmated are common migrants through here.
"I wanna see the world, I wanna sail the ocean
I wanna know what it feels like to never come back again
I wanna feel the waves crushin’ down on heartache
I wanna find the key to the sky and never come back again
I wanna wake my soul, climb the highest mountain
I wanna write my name in the clouds and never come back again"
~Austin Plaine
Happily, I would have stayed in Maine... and never come back again. I guess there are just too many people I would miss, though. Oh, yeah... and the job thing.... and the place to live thing. All solvable, I suppose! Maybe next year!
Been planning to do this one for many months, could never build up the gumption to do it.
More work than my usual shot.
Tried making black PlayDoh using white and some old inkjet ink, ended up more gray.
A few weeks ago I picked up a great assortment of PlayDoh, many colors including black. So I molded and cut and pasted the thing up last week.
Got the courage to shoot it tonight. And mind you, the flash has been misbehaving.
But it got the shot, my solution for the classic Rubics Cube.
My camera for the stereo shot arrived Wednesday. A used G6. I messed around with it and got a nice shot of a Christmas bulb filled with jello. Focusing is a pain, but at first blush, the depth of field is greater than my D90.
The G6 was 135$ shipped, so a cheap camera will do a good job with this type of photo. It's all in the flash, folks.