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Flight Spindle Whorl by Musqueam artist Susan A. Point. 16 feet diameter, made from red cedar in 1995
photo taken in a time i call BDE, Before the Dslr Era
The Saturday morning cars were stiil.The birds didn't bother singing.I knew it had snowed outside from the silence inside.Later, on the moors, mists and snow merged into nothing.Only walls and fences drew the eye.I'd never noticed this tree before today.
Ink & Spindle at Abbotsford Convent: With a love for Australian native flora and fauna, Ink & Spindle designs and hand-screen prints meterage fabric for a range of interior uses – window furnishings, upholstery, soft furnishings and lighting.
Euonymus europaeus
A hard wood that easily cuts to a point. Often used for the spindles when spinning and catching wool. The wood can also be made to burn in a pit to make charcoal drawing sticks.
For the image, I cellotaped a sprig to the lens hood of a 24mm Pentax SMC with a 12mm mechanical tube. I then stopped down and exposed after a 10 second delay, which gave me the time to take a micro light in each hand and to rotate for a soft light with hightone. Shot using a Pentax K-50.
One of the most unusual poisonous Autumn berries is the berry of the Spindle shrub (Euonymus europaeus). ... The berries contain toxic cardiac glycosides and alkaoloids. Children are attracted to the bright orange fruits, which contain toxic seeds.
Just has to be a vertical, I really should get one off those Pen half frames that takes verticals when the camera is held "normally". This one a bit a bit of a struggle as it was over developed so needed some tweaking and still not over happy, next roll again perhaps.
Architecturally I like the stepped effect going upwards.
The oldest part of this mill was built in 1826. It was built for Samuel Greg & Co (of Styal), who bought an adjoining sailcloth mill (now demolished) in 1825. In 1832 a 12 horsepower Boulton and Watt engine was brought over from Greg's original mill at Styal in Cheshire. In 1861 the mill was bought by Storey Brothers, who probably added the fireproofing. It closed in 1982, the adjoining weaving sheds were demolished in 1986 and the main mill building was converted to office use in 1989-90. It became the headquarters of sportswear manufacturers Reebok UK Ltd in August 1990 before being taken over by the NHS in 2008.
Grace's Guide says: Storey Brothers and Co, Moor Lane Mills; 15,496 spindles, 5'/40' weft; 864 looms, domestics, twills, &c.; and calico printers and makers of imitation leathers, table covers, tectorium, &c., at White Cross Mills. Telegrams, " Storey, Lancaster." Telephone No., 20.
A small sample from my spindle collection. Most of them were given to me by very special people, and one was custom made by a local woodturner.
Yesterday a cold morning drew a rim of frost on the still colorful fruits and leaves.
Gestern zeichnete ein kalter Morgen einen Rand von Frost auf die noch bunten Blätter und Früchte.
This 33mm diameter spindle whorl was found by a keen eyed shepherd in Glenisla last century. It was used to spin wool after carding with the aid of a wooden spindle held in its 10mm central hole. The stone weight acted as a fly wheel - allowing the spindle to continue turning when rolled between finger and thumb. These have been in use since the Iron Age and were eventually replaced by the iconic spinning wheel towards the end of the 18th century. Its dimensions, shape and lack of decoration makes it likely to be an early example. These stones were also treated as healing amulets and referred to as "Clach-nathrach", stones of the snake - the same name given to a cup marked glacial erratic just over the Glenshee march in Glen Beanie. Glenshee has a similar Spindle Whorl found 4km away in 2015 by the Glenshee Archaeology Project. The building and artifacts the Glenshee one was found among radiocarbon date it to the early medieval period.
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Spindle is one of my favorite plants, I love it's bright pink berries in the autumn hedgerows in the autumn, it really adds colour to an already colourful season, it grows in abundance in suffolk
I won't have time to really play with the new camera till this weekend, but I am trying to learn one small basic thing a day. Today's Thing I Learned: how to get into macro mode on my 12 - 50mm kit lens. Ooooh. (Yesterday's Thing I Learned was how to zoom the lens... I'm definitely starting with the basics after my point and shoot upgrade, but that's fine, I'm 100% ok with being a beginner.)
It's dim and drizzly today (unusual, also, can we please get some snow this winter??) and I took this in my office, which is probably the darkest room in the house. Just so impressed with what this camera can capture in low light!