Tea Kettle. Total width 3 inches.

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"...but the kettles on the boil and we are so easily called away"....

Beatles (Uncle Albert)

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Tea pots

"Brew me a cup for a winter's night.

For the wind howls loud, and the furies fight;

Spice it with love and stir it with care,

And I'll toast your bright eyes, my sweetheart fair."

- Minna Thomas Antrim, 'A Night Cap,'

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“Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment”

- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (French Lawyer, Politician and Writer, 1755-1826)

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Still life farmhouse tea kettle and blooms

The top of my teakettle.

HMM, everybody !

There isn't much water around here so you can just leave your teakettle at the junction.

"October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!"

Rainbow Rowell

Just south of Teakettle Junction on Racetrack Valley Rd. Winter. No crop. No post processing.

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Whistling teakettle captured for Macro Mondays theme: smoke.

And processed with Deep Dream Generator. HMM everyone!

(Open flames are not allowed in my retirement community apartment.)

HMM- since the wooden shoes didn't pass muster, i am going with this one for my back-up for my choice for today, 8/31, for the macro mondays' group pool for the theme of sound. this was designed (with the semicircular cutouts) to make a sound to let the owner of the tea kettle know when the water is heated to an optimum temperature. most of my pictures were in the homemade musical instruments category ~grin~

"macro mondays" sound possibility

“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”

― Rainbow Rowell

Just back from a few days in Oslo and Hamburg (where it was very wet!) and so I'm trying to catch up on comments. Please bear with me!

This shot wasn't taken in either Oslo or Hamburg but in the tropical greenhouse at Wisley :-)

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Handle inside a handle - HCT & HBW!

vintage look roses-still life

or The Art Of The Ordinary Series continues.......

Striped leafhoppers in the genus Sibovia are common in Central America.

Female Dancers can be difficult to identify - possibly Argia frequentula?

Been a while since I posted any steam, so next up is Everett 11 crossing a branch of the Little Juniata River between Hollidaysburg and Brooks Mill.

One of these days I need to get back there and chase the EV freight again...I told myself I'd make time for it after graduation, and to my continuing regret, I never did.

Photography in Greek means drawing with light or light painting.

Play of light and shadow

The man who appreciates the beauty of nature and the world is much richer and happier than those who do not notice this.

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Thanks to those who gave simply a smile or admiration and those who remained dissatisfied! :))

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DEATH VALLEY CALIFORNIA

In a remote corner of the park about 20 miles south of Ubehebe Crater on a rocky unforgiving road lies Teakettle Junction. The junction is near the Racetrack Playa, a dry lakebed, where the rocks seem to move on their own. People leave inscribed kettles at the junction as a kind of tribute or good luck charm to those few that make the trip. The National Park Service removes the kettles on a regular basis to make room for the new additions. What is the story behind this tribute? Nobody really knows, but a local historian gave us his version. In the early 1900's the owner of the Lost Burro Mine was to have supplies delivered to the mine located a few miles from the junction. To show the driver which road to take they placed a teakettle at the junction with the spout pointed in the direction of the correct road. A nearby unscrupulous mine owner found out and turned the spout in the direction of his mine for the delivery instead. He didn't get away with it and was caught and served jail time.

A display at the Atwood Museum in Chatham, Massachusetts.

ID by solomon

An colourful little leafhopper from Belize.

Teakettle Junction

BNSF Railway GP39-3 2689 leads a local through Columbia Falls, Montana, on a chilly Tuesday evening as the final rays of daylight illuminate the face of Teakettle Mountain.

Photo taken for 😄 HaPpY CrAzY Tuesday 😄 - THEME: Sound

Steaming and Whistling tea kettle

I really do believe this bird was enjoying the warmer sun filled day we had today. With threats of snow just days away, I too went outdoors to catch some sunshine while it lasts!!

"The very ritual of tea-making, warming the pot, making sure that the water is just boiling, inhaling the fragrant steam, arranging the tea-cosy to fit snugly around the precious container, all the preliminaries lead up to the exquisite pleasure of sipping the brew from thin porcelain, and helping oneself to hot buttered scones and strawberry jam, a slice of feather-light sponge cake or home-made shortbread."

- Miss Read, Gossip from Thrush Green

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This shot was taken from Governor Basin looking down to the road in the distance that goes up to Yankee Boy Basin. Roads to both basins (over 11,000 feet) were constructed by mining companies, though today they are used more frequently to access camping sites, hiking trails, meadows of wildflowers and spectacular scenery. The two peaks (from l to r) are Teakettle Mountain (13,819) and Potosi Peak (13, 786).

"Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot."

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

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The soft, leathery elytra of Net-winged Beetles are easily ruptured to release extremely noxious fluids. Many of these warningly coloured (aposematic), orange and black beetles are the models for mimicry rings involving similarly coloured beetles from several other families and even moths and wasps.

Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Kitchen area of the Picton Castle tall ship at Bay City, MI a couple years ago.

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"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."

- Japanese proverb

"Tea is naught but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.'

- Sen Rikyu, Japanese Tea Master

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Another view of one of the sliding rocks on the Racetrack Playa.

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Yankee Boy Basin...Colorado

Been a little while since I posted any steam, so I thought it was time.

For that we go back to May 2011, and Pete Lerro's first Grand Canyon Railway charter. I don't recall the exact location, beyond Milepost 56.3, somewhere on the GCRY's pine-forested north end.

“A cup of tea is a cup of peace.”

- Sen Sshitsu VX

“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be diminished by a nice cup of tea.”

-Bernard Paul Heroux

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Carolina Wrens are year-round residents in my neck of the woods. These feisty little birds pack quite a vocal punch. Their piercingly loud "teakettle-teakettle” song belies their diminutive size.

Summerville, South Carolina

Headed for Bend, Oregon, the Union Pacific 3985 crosses Trout Creek as it climbs out of the Deschutes River Canyon in June 1993. Ironically, this portion of the Oregon Trunk was constructed by UP subsidiary Des Chutes Railroad, so it is almost as if the 4-6-6-4 is on home rail.

Still life with a nod to Christopher Broadbent----english photographer stilllife genre---oh to be like him---

Three cowboys and their mounts go for a walk in Arizona's high desert, as a teakettle simmers in the background.

After "robbing" the GCRY's regular train, the cowboys hung around and posed for our cameras.