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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!
this sculpture (and taxi station, it seems) by dustin shuler is supposed to be torn down in a couple of weeks to make room for redevelopment (specifically, a new walgreens). they may end up moving it down the street.
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2nd single is done which is on the spindle bouquet
fiber on left is the 3rd single that needs to be spun.
A few of my supported spindles. Two made by me, a genuin Russian, two Russian from IST, one replica of antique type that can be spun supported or suspended, Tibetan from Spindlewood, bead spindle from Africa and antique stone whorl from Israel both sold by MandaCrafts, tahkli.
Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler died during the Third Battle of Ypres. Here is more about the heroic nurse who is the only woman among more than 10,000 men in the CWGC’s second largest cemetery in Belgium.
Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler
Died: 21 August 1917
Age: 26
One of only two female casualties of the Great War buried in Belgium.
Nellie Spindler was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in September 1891, to George and Elizabeth. George was a Sergeant, and later Inspector in the local police force. Nellie was the oldest of two daughters born to the Spindlers.
Nellie entered the nursing profession before the war. In 1911, she was a hospital nurse at the City Fever Hospital, Wakefield, and later transferred to the Township Infantry in Leeds and then Whittington Military Hospital in Litchfield.
Nellie joined the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service and in May 1917, travelled to France. Here Nellie was initially stationed at the Stationary Hospital in Abbeville, before being transferred to No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) which in July 1917 moved to Brandhoek, Belgium.
No.44 CCS specialised in abdominal, chest and thigh wounds which needed urgent treatment and so was stationed relatively close to the frontlines. Though around five miles from the frontlines, Brandhoek was within range of the larger German guns, and with its railway sidings and munitions dumps was the target of frequent German shelling.
On 21 August 1917, the hospital was shelled all day and at 11am Nellie was hit along with four other nurses by an exploding shell. Struck in the back or chest (the accounts differ), Nellie soon became unconscious as the hospital staff desperately tried to stanch her wounds but to no avail. Nellie died just 20 minutes later in the arms of a fellow nurse.
One of Nellie’s colleagues, Sister Kate Luard, gave an account of the incident in a letter home.
Thursday, August 23rd. No. 10 Sta. St. Omer
"I’m afraid you’ll be very disappointed, but we are to re-open on the same spot so Leave is off.
I expected [for one rash day] to be telling you all about Tuesday at home tomorrow, but must write it now.
The business began about 10 a.m. Two came pretty close after each other and both just cleared us and No. 44. The third crashed between Sister E’s ward in our lines and the Sisters’ Quarters of No. 44. Bits came over everywhere, pitching at one’s feet as we rushed to the scene of the action, and one just missed one of my Night Sisters getting into bed in our Compound. I knew by the crash where it must have gone and found Sister E. as white as paper but smiling happily and comforting the terrified patients. Bits tore through her Ward but hurt no one. Having to be thoroughly jovial to the patients on these occasions helps us considerably ourselves. Then I came on to the shell-hole and the wrecked tents in the Sister’s Quarters at 44. A group of stricken M.O.’s were standing about and in one tent the Sister was dying. The piece went through her from back to front near her heart. She was only conscious a few minutes and only lived 20 minutes. She was in bed asleep. The Sister who shared her tent had been sent down the day before because she couldn’t stand the noise and the day and night conditions. The Sister who should have been in the tent which was nearest was out for a walk or she would have been blown to bits; everything in her tent was; so it was in my empty Ward next to Sister E. It all made one feel sick.”
Orders came that the CCS at Brandhoek was to be evacuated, 321 patients, the staff and Nellie Spindler’s body were taken to Lijssenthoek. Nellie was buried, with full military honours the next day. The ‘Last Post’ was sounded and it is thought that more than 100 officers, four generals and the Surgeon-General attended the funeral. She is buried at CWGC Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery – the only woman among more than 10,000 men. Her headstone bears the inscription:
A NOBLE TYPE OF
GOOD HEROIC WOMANHOOD
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...a beautiful day...walk going well...last field we needed to cross full of English longhorn cattle...not too pleased to see us...detour through the woods...came across these colourful Spindle trees...
I bought a couple of these Euonymus plants a few years ago for my husband..we're still waiting to see these colourful fruits!...but they have provided beautiful autumn leaf colour this year...
texture thanks o Musymas
18/366 2016
Having a go at drop spinning. Somebody showed me how to do this in 1988 and I am now finally having a proper go, aided and assisted by You Tube videos. I am spinning up some Portland fleece from one of my friend's rare breed portland sheep. Thus far it's not too tricky but it's very slow.
Fine details and craftsmanship on an old horse drawn carriage at the Wesley W. Jung Carriage museum in Greenbush Wisconsin.
This is a new design for Grizzly Mountain Arts! Dave has crafted the beautiful 1 7/8 inch acorn whorl of this support spindle from poplar. Pyrography, burn etching, was used to create the details on the acorn's cap. The 11 1/2 inch long shaft was created from walnut and the weight of this spindle in 51 grams (1.8 ounces).
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Spindler
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35493
Call Number: LC-B2- 5922-16