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Golden Spindles, a fairy club fungus of unimproved grassland on acid soil. Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire.
Two lovely spindles from Steve Kundert.
Right: plain Red Cedar whorl, Maple shaft
Left: Wormy Butternut over Red Cedar with Walnut shaft
1.2 oz both
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Spindle point, at sunrise on a bitter cold 10°F February morning. Located on Meredith Neck, next to Weirs Beach, on Lake Winnipesaukee, Meredith, New Hampshire.
A bit of history: The land was purchased in 1901 by Colonel Charles Cummings, who was a 33-degree Mason. Purchased for a mere $3,000, the Colonel intended to leave the Spindle Point - 500 acre Farm to the New Hampshire Grand Lodge of Masons for a Masonic home, but the cost was far too excessive for the fraternity. The land was eventually sold to developers. Colonel Cummings built this observatory tower for his two daughters, who were aspiring artists.
Leave it to me, an aspiring photographer, to take a bit of a daring shot like this one. The land is on private property, so to capture this image, I walked across Meredith Bay on the glare ice. Maybe a kayak in the summer would have been easier :)
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
An enlargement with whorls around 4 cm in diameter
Taken through glass
Late prehistoric spindle or early medeival whorls, used to weigh string tight as it is being spun or pleated. The weight of the stone provides the inertia to keep the spindle spinning.
Thought to have been known as a fairy millstone from the medieval.
Northern Ireland. Basalt.
Kelvingrove museum. Glasgow.
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.
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.
Columbia Children's Arboretum, NE Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon (October 24th, 2021). 17/14b Suburban arboretum and park.
Growing along one of the footpaths. . ..
Other shots of leaves--
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.
The Spindle galaxy - a.k.a. Messier 102 and NGC 5866 - is 50 million light years away in the constellation of Draco. We are viewing the galaxy side on so the galaxy's dust lane can be seen across the disk.
After what seems like months of cloudy skies there's at last a clear night but with a 95% Moon and everyone knows this is useless for astro imaging apart from maybe projects including Hydrogen Alpha narrowband data.
However I thought I'd give the big rig a quick airing to see if it is still working ok. No proper polar alignment, auto guiding horrible and 95% Moon so please forgive the horribly blurry result.
Managed to get 60 x 300s with the C925 and ASI533MC camera but only used 36 of 60 in the stack (3hrs in total).
Evening sunlight bringing out the vivid colours of a pink spindle berry and one of the orange seeds inside.
Vruchtjes van de wilde kardinaalsmuts, waaraan de struik zijn naam dankt. Het hout is erg hard en kan gebruikt worden voor breinaalden, klossen en spintollen, vandaar de Engelse naam "spindle tree". (spindle = spintol)
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Fruit of the European spindle. Their shape reminds of a cardinal's hat and that is the reason for the Dutch name. It is called spindle in English, because the wood of the small tree is very hard and can be cut to a sharp point; it was used in the past for making wool spindles.