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Tumwater Canyon Bridge - Leavenworth, Washington.
The Great Northern Railroad Built a tunnel through Stevens Pass in Washington State. The Railroad discovered the exhaust from the steams engines caused problems in the tunnels. Because of this they used electric engines to pull the cars through. A dam was created in Tumwater Canyon on the Wenachee River. The water was sent through a pipeline down to a plant that generated electricity for the engines. In 1954 the railroad started using diesel engines and abandoned the pipeline and power plant. This bridge was used for the pipeline to cross the river. It is now been converted into a footbridge that follows a trail of the old pipeline.
Theme description: “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!” - Mae West
Is there something in your doll’s life that he/she excessively desires or craves? This theme is all about exploring your doll’s personality (and maybe his/her home) for inspiration. Is your doll a shopaholic with a closet filled with designer shoes? Or perhaps he/she has an insatiable sweet tooth for ice cream sundaes with pecans….lots of pecans. Or maybe your doll has a secret guilty pleasure that the average doll might find unusual or even tawdry. Think C-grade scary movie marathons at home. Think hidden toy chests spilling with troll dolls under the bed. Show us what your doll loves to collect or experience to the extreme!
This photo: Marie is primping for an evening date with Chad Towers.
"Marie, Chad called and said he'll be here a little early to pick you up," Chrissy yells from downstairs.
"Uh, can you call him back and tell him that's not going to work? I still have to do my facial treatment, my makeup and my hair. Beauty can't be rushed!"
Of all my dolls (Elizabeth's stress-eating with ice cream excluded), Marie is one to indulge. She loves beauty products of all kinds and can easily spend hours reading romance novels while trying out a new beauty mask -- even if that means she's a little late from time to time. ;)
Marie is a Flashdance Barbie. Her lit vanity and robe are Mattel.
The #MacroMondays #Timepieces theme
Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington introduced us to The Arrow of Time. As we look into the future we see a universe which is gradually descending into disorder, expanding and cooling, ultimately to become a scattered collection of particles so far separated within an unimaginably vast nothingness that the probability of them ever again combining to create anything is zilch. That is indeed a depressing forecast of our destiny, but as the process will take about 10 trillion years (around 50x the current age of The Universe) there's no need to cancel your pro subs just yet. Conversely if we look into our past we see greater order. Ultimately we could look back to The Big Bang when The Universe was simple and very highly ordered before its unimaginably rapid expansion an instant later.
HMM all - very deep for a Monday! Sir Arthur illustrates The Second Law of Thermodynamics which holds that entropy increases with time. The entropy of a system refers to the amount of order within it. Low entropy describes a high degree of order. For example, if we conceptually reduce your home, that pile of bricks or whatever, into its constituent atoms we can imagine that only a very few arrangements of those atoms would create your home, meaning that your home is a low entropy system. Similarly a pile of beach sand has a high level of disorder, representing high entropy. A pile of sand is a pile of sand - there are very many ways the grains of sand in a pile may be arranged to create any old pile and one pile of sand is pretty much the same as any other. However, if you put some in a bucket then threw it into the air, you would be very surprised if it landed in the form of a sand castle. But it could, proven by you instead flipping the bucket over in traditional seaside fashion, giving it a tap and carefully removing it, creating your sand castle. The grains therefore can make such a thing and could therefore land in just the right places even if you threw them into the air. But there are far many more configurations that they could take (most of which are unremarkable piles) so while a sand castle magically appearing from a load of airborne sand could theoretically happen, it is a vanishingly improbable event. Functionally speaking, the probability of such an event occurring is zero. If you left a formed sand castle alone, you'd see its entropy increase as it decays into an unremarkable high entropy pile of sand. Ultimately it will become just another part of the even higher entropy beach, demonstrating, during your hard earned summer holiday, a university level physics concept. I've never done a university physics course, he hastily clarifies, but I have done some reading on it.
I should say that it has been fairly pointed out to me that this interpretation does depend on one's world view. This is mine. It's a world view which led to the manufacture of transport options to get to beaches, buckets capable of creating sand castles, cameras, the internet and probes heading to the edges of The Solar System and ultimately beyond on precisely predetermined trajectories calculated using physics, so I think it has some evidence to support it. The background of the photo is the Christian creation story, Genesis 1. That's mine too.
In creating the image, I used a plain yellow background created in Photoshop over which I added a layer of a paving stone to provide texture, reducing its opacity to allow the yellow to colour it. Genesis followed, and finally a photo of a small pocket watch which I vandalised through the wonders of Photoshop, using much tiny deleting, moving and transforming, its parts disappearing into the future as it falls into disorder, following The Arrow of Time.
oh, how this would have been made awesome had it been shot with a long exposure..but, alas.. i did not have my tripod.
i entered this into a themed shot on google + today, so thought i would share.
Still trying to master the paper and especially the clearing part.
Paper: Fomabrom var 311 BO
Original negative: Zeiss Ikonta 520/2 6x9, Fomapan 100 with a light leak left of the rightmost tree
The Macro Monday theme this week was Crime. I know fingerprints are the obvious choice, but I had about 10min to do something between all my baby adventures. I just wanted to stretch a little and do something different for me.
Cooling off in a refreshing dip in the River Phillip, Oxford, NS
Evening sun on this very hot day shines on the low water level.
FlickrFriday theme is: #Refresh
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È l'aspetto androgino del dio Shiva, raffigurato con la metà sinistra del corpo femminile, e la metà destra maschile, a rappresentare tanto l'unità primordiale, quanto il desiderio erotico. Esistono due varianti del mito di Ardhanari (da ardh'a, metà, e nhn, donna), che focalizzano il senso di questa figura attorno al tema dell'amore.
It is the androgynous aspect of the god Shiva, depicted with the left half of the female body, and the right half of the male, to represent both the primordial unity and the erotic desire. There are two variants of the Ardhanari myth (from ardh'a, half, and nhn, woman), which focus the sense of this figure around the theme of love.
Taken for the Macro Mondays theme of Contraption. This is (as I am reliaby informed by my OH) an ammeter. No idea how it works or how to use it so I felt it fitted the theme! HMM!
Every week or two, I post a macro image on Facebook and invite my friends to guess what it is - something they apparently enjoy. This one is easier than the one I posted yesterday.
Weekly Theme Challenge-In A Row
I always love going to our local Farmer's Markets. This one was held at Steamboat Landing on Cayuga Lake. This particular booth is operated by Sean, our friend who owns Edible Acres Farm and has been helping us learn about and grow produce in our modest garden and small fruit orchard since we moved to Ithaca in 2017. He is extremely knowledgeable about Permaculture in this area.
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