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Ever thought about the identity of the person behind the clown costume? I've tried to capture the idea of a frightening and evil person tempting those around him.
woman with Tempting lock on her eyes looking at you, on blue sky background, and red scarf around her swimming suit
What a spread! And don't you just love that white painted brick?
From the Better Homes and Gardens, "Holiday Cook Book." Published in 1959.
The historic Shingle Inn cafe re-opened in the newly renovated City Hall. Today's lunch sitting was booked out, naturally. Just before the patrons entered we were allowed in to take some photos. It is all looking just wonderful.
From the HoN website!!
i had to print screen in two diff sections....so my bad if it doesnt match!
you might not be able to see the writing cause i dont have an 'all sizes' option on my flickr, so here is what is says.
"So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal. Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul? Find out in the next spectacular installment in the House of Night series, TEMPTED.
www.1001gardens.org/2016/12/opt-bamboo-fountain/
Bring more freshness to your garden area with a bamboo fountain made by yourself! Does this decorative idea tempt you?
Look at the photo above! Is not it a super nice idea? What would you say? And in addition, you can achieve it very easily yourself. Obtain bamboo stalks that you then cut according to your preferences, a pipe inside which to circulate water, a pump and a large planter. If you prefer to decorate your fountain even better, add pebbles and tree leaves in different colors.
Once the elements necessary for the construction of your fountain are procured, just assemble the parts to the place where you want to dispose it in the garden. Yes, you can also think of adding stones as shown in the photo above, or else, foam; This is another way to embellish the space around.
Walking along Key West, there were numerous of street acts going on. Especially music! I was so tempted to get out my guitar and jam out with some of these brothers singing about there life stories. Above is a man named Kenyatta Arrington. He was a interesting soul! I liked his vibe so I gave him a dollar, talked for him a bit and then asked him if I could take some photos of him while he played me a song :)
This is looking north on the Bright Angel Trail from almost at the South Rim at Indian Garden and Plateau Point. Battleship looming on the left. IWe are heading home from a great adventure.
"Little did we anticipate how its sublime power was to grow upon us. Until at the end of two years it seemed a hardship to leave it for the commonplace world of man." Francois Matthes.
"I have never really lost my sense of wonder" Harvey wrote to a friend in 1954, "but one time coming up to the top of the Bright Angel Trail and was asked by a tourist whether the trip to the bottom was worth the effort, I was tempted to reply, "It was better the first 25 times."" Grand Obsession - Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand Canyon. Page 117
Virginia is one of my absolute favorite models to shoot with - I just cannot say enough good things about her. Shooting with her is one of the great pleasures of life and I'm so lucky to have done it several times now.
We did this indoor shoot in South Anchorage way back in December 2009 with Christmas colors in mind. One of the photographers found a wedding dress on E-bay and it fit Virginia perfectly.
Virginia is a busy lass - she has a profile on Model Mayhem and is currently getting ready to compete in some bodybuilding contests. I wish I had one iota of her energy!
Strobist info - I used a set-up with two Vivitar HV-285 flash units triggered by Cybersync remotes. I positioned the flash units at 45 degree angles, one set on 1/4 power, the other on 1/2 power.
We had a small group photo shoot using the back of a Cadillac limo that my friend owns. Classy car with lovely women - life is good! It was an absolutely horrible day - nasty, steady cold downpour so it felt good to be in the limo! We did this shoot in South Anchorage, Alaska in October 2011.
This was my first shoot with Brittney, and all I can say is WOW! She is an sweet lass, great attitude, extremely photogenic, just a real blast to shoot. Hopefully she's going to lower her standards and shoot with me again in the near future!!
Nayland. All villages around seem to be by or next to Nayland. Best go to Nayland to see what it was like.
I had programmed the sat nav to take me to Wissington, more of that next, but I saw that we would go through Nayland, I decided to turn up the main road through the village and find a place to park.
Nayland is pretty as a picture, maybe even chocolate box pretty. But it knows it. Nayland, twinned with Aldburgh!
The streets were full of sports cars and top end range rovers. Pubs had been converted to houses, which happens everywhere, but it gave off, at least to me, an air of being better. Better than me.
I glimpsed St James along the line of Church Mews. I walked along to the church, found that the entrance was round the other side of the church, but it was easy to cut through a metal gate and made my way inside.
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Most recently, I visited St James as part of the anniversary celebrations – of another church. I’ll explain why in a moment, but an observation first: I like St James a lot. I like Nayland too – Suffolk has far fewer chocolate box villages than you might be led to expect, but Nayland is one of them.
The church is shoehorned into a tight site among houses that are nearly as old; only to the north is there room for the graveyard to expand. Because of this, you might be tempted to view it only from this side; but this would be a mistake, for although it is grand enough, it is probably the least interesting of the four sides. At any church, a walk around the outside is recommended. Here, it is essential.
As I say, I came here last because of celebrations It was the centenary of the little building on the north-east edge of St James’s churchyard. This is the Catholic church of the Sacred Heart. Before the Reformation, of course, St James itself was a Catholic church; but Henry VIII and two of his children threw the Priests out of the Temple, and now Nayland’s Catholics leave their Mass under the shadow of the glory that was once theirs. Sacred Heart is a tiny little church, and St James is vast; but as so often these days, it is Sacred Heart that has the larger congregation. So it was that the centenary Mass was held in the big sister church. It must have been many years since St James hosted a high pontifical Mass, but it seemed very comfortable with it.
I have several reasons for particularly liking St James. Firstly, he is my favourite Saint, and his church here is a glory to him; it is furnished in the Anglo-catholic manner of the early 20th century, with Stations of the Cross set in the walls and a grand ritualist sanctuary. But it does not have the pomposity or the triumphalism you find in other large Suffolk Anglican churches like Lavenham and Clare. Here, the feeling is of a rural church at ease with itself, not the proto-urbanity that comes with Minton tiles and polished woodwork.
Having said that, the work here is of a high quality, and very well-cared for. Quite frankly, I think this church is a credit to its village and parish.
But let us survey the outside first. St James was a 15th century cloth church, rebuilt on the wealth of the cloth traders. You step down into the seriously civic south porch, or continue anti-clockwise to the west tower, behind the houses, where the west door has four steps - up. Most curious. The tower was never rebuilt; it is still the original 14th century one, and the late-medieval battlements are, in fact, Victorian.
Carrying on southwards, we come to a third entrance, and the grandest. William Abell's porch was given as part of a bequest on the eve of the Reformation. Rather curiously, it faces westwards at the end of the south aisle, and is no longer in regular use.
A narrow path leads up the south side of the church, with a wall and gardens beyond. It takes us past a grand red brick rood loft stair turret, an indicator that the screen went right the way across the church as at Blythburgh, Southwold, Lowestoft St Margaret and other grand churches of the same date.
The eastend is like a little city of chancel and chapel, including several original doors. Then, you are back round into the open churchyard.
We step in, then, through the north porch. The nave is immediately reminiscent of that at Framlingham, with the organ high in its gallery, the well recut font in the north-west corner, and solid pillars leading to a bold clerestory. The aisles spread beyond the arcades, and end in fine modern chapels; that in the north aisle is particularly appealing. The roof is reminiscent of Blythburgh in its camber, but is entirely devoid now of angels and monograms.
The chancel is high and grand, and if the stone reredos is a little severe then this is adequately compensated for by John Constable’s best altar piece. I am assuming that there is now a replica in place, as at Brantham. Christ blesses the bread and wine with a haunting expression on his face; you wonder what Constable might have done if he hadn’t achieved success as a landscape painter.
If you can get access to the vestry, you will find the memorial to William Jones, vicar for the last quarter of the 18th century. His place in modern Anglican history is secure and undeniable, and yet his name is almost entirely forgotten. At a time when the Church of England was almost entirely the preserve of a boorish squirarchy, he led a group of intellectuals who explored the spiritual nature of the church, and attempted to reintroduce ideas to their parishioners like the real presence in the Eucharist. He made his mark felt in many corners of the English Church. One of his early followers was John Wesley, who founded the Methodist movement. Another was the father of John Keble, who went on to be the inspiration behind the Oxford Movement. Yet another person inspired by the legacy of his spiritual writings was the young John Henry Newman. It seems incredible that the catalyst behind the two great breakaway movements of the last 250 years should have been a quiet clergyman in this Suffolk backwater, although in the late 18th and early 19th century the name 'Jones of Nayland' was well-known.
For brass-hunters, there is much to see - there are six, all told, to the Sekyn, Hacche and Davy families. There is also some really good modern glass, particularly in the north aisle.
Why is this grand church not on the ecclesiological tourist circuit? Well, it is all a bit Victorianised, I suppose. But as on the outside, there are some medieval survivals inside, and the most remarkable of these are hanging up on the south aisle wall. These are the panels of the medieval roodscreen (the frame and boarding is all Victorian) and show eight figures. The first shows St Cuthbert - the football in his hand is in fact a head; the second and third are two popular Saints in East Anglia, our own St Edmund and the Papal St Gregory (you can tell that the furious Anglican reformers didn't like him). The fourth is a King, the fifth shows the legend of St Edward the Confessor (you can see this in stone at Wordwell) the next two are Kings, and the last is probably St Thomas of Canterbury.
I’m assuming that the screen must have been in situ until the Victorian restoration.
If you can get permission to climb to the organ loft, then the view of the church from there is wonderful, and particularly that of the roof and clerestory.
Don’t leave without examining the funeral bier in the south aisle; it is one of Suffolk’s biggest, and obviously designed for grand processions for civic worthies. It is a reminder that, as late as the 19th century, Nayland was a significant place, before the second industrial revolution faded it into obscurity.
Frog's latest health app that crowdsources help when you need to resist that cookie plate.
Pros: Frog is getting into the phone service space with their own app. Sharp looking design (although I haven't touched it yet).
Cons: Crowdsourcing temptation help is, ah, not tempting.
For some time I've had a piece of Laurel Burch kitty fabric hanging at my workbench. Her vibrant colors nudging me, tempting me! Another bead weaver mentioned several months ago; she likes to get her inspiration from fabrics hmmmmmm (tempting) Oh! and the detail those tiny 15 size beads could make up; hmmmmm (tempting!) Yikes! Temptation overcome! This piece was created for the EBWC (Etsy Bead Weavers Challenge) titled "Temptation"
Inspired by the beautiful fabric and design of Laurel Burch; this little kitty is also surrounded by temptation of the butterflies and fishy groups on the neck chain. She measures 4 inches high (from the tip of her ears to the tip of the lowest leaf) X 3 inches wide; and the neckstrap measures 24 inches. I forgot to take a photo of her back; but it is finished in a soft black leather.