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One last piece of vintage machinery from Thomas Edison's machine shop.
There are some great pieces of industrial history here, but the light can be a bit challenging for a photographer, due to the big windows. Guess I need to go back for a longer visit on a cloudy day in the winter...
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Took a little walk in the James River yesterday. I took this while standing in a little sandbar that appeared only in the last year or so. The secret (What is it about me and secrets the past couple of pictures?) is that you have to stay really close to the bank. Otherwise it's like quicksand. As one foot sank in quickly, I scrambled closer to the bank, laughing at myself.
This was taken in the flower garden at Pineland Farm in New Gloucester, Maine.
Thread-waisted wasp, (subfamily Sphecinae), any of a group of large, common, solitary (nonsocial) wasps in the family Sphecidae (order Hymenoptera) that are named for the stalklike anterior (front) end of the abdomen. Thread-waisted wasps are typically more than 2.5 cm (about 1 inch) long and are parasitic on insects and spiders. The host is often numbed by malaxation, a pinching or crushing of the neck by the wasp’s pincerlike jaws, and paralyzed by the wasp’s sting. The wasp places the host’s body in a mud cell and lays an egg on it. Upon hatching, the larva consumes the host.[Encyclopedia Britannica]
I have always wondered what was all that stuff on top of Scripps Pier. I was shocked to find out that there were toy boats up there!
First time to see these in our lantana. Tried to grab a couple of photos, not quite in sharp focus but wanted to record its presence. May get better ones later. They nest in the ground.
Sometimes life seems to hang by a thread, or a root. These trees are holding on to ground that is rapidly being eroded into the sea.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro.
Silk threads on Autumn Hydrangea blossoms.
Captured in bright morning sun on campus with the usual iPhone and Olloclip Macro Lens.
Edited on the iPad first in Snapseed then in Fotograf for black and white conversion.
Meanders of Weser through North Germany. An ugly, industrial landscape transformed into beauty by distance and light.
This is "Kaga Temari". Japanese traditional handcraft.
Winding the chunk of cotton by a color thread until it forms a precise sphere.
An unidentified Sprinter class 158 passes through an autumnal Cornholme with the 11.11 Blackpool North - York (1B19) on 17th October 2014.
"This species belongs to a family of spiders called the cribellate orbweavers (Uloboridae). This family is unique in North America because its members completely lack venom. And what does “cribellate” mean? A cribellum is a sievelike plate in front of the spinnerets that causes the silk that emerges from the spinnerets to be “hackled,” or covered with woolly fibers that help snag prey (instead of the sticky threads many other spiders use).
Although a number of spider families include at least some cribellate species, this cribellate family is unusual because its members spin orb (wheel-shaped) webs. Cribellate spiders are not closely related to the true orbweavers, family Araneidae, and most spider families that possess a cribellum do not create circular orbs."
I wanted a quick quilting project for a petit four basket to use up some fat quarters. I found this variegated thread that I thought would be different to use.
I should add my quick projects are often not very quick.
#5/125 Arts and Crafts: 125 pictures in 2025
Another topflappen, this time in Rowan 4 Ply Cotton, and a test from the Japanese 300 motifs book. I can read charts! :D
I've had this one ball of 4 Ply kicking around for years and it is so nice to crochet. Of course, the yarn' s been discontinued.
A mating pair of thread-waisted wasps, Eremnophila aureonotata, multitasking in a garden in Leavenworth, Kansas. August 4, 2019.
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I couldn't resist this vintage thread holder and made no promises to sew more if I bought it.
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This is a 1:1 macro image of red tracer line in a dyneema halyard. It was shot for the Macro Monday's "Center Square B&W" challenge.
The color original was used for this week's Weekly Theme Challange.
W.A. Young Machine Shop and Foundry
Rices Landing, PA
This shop was built in 1900. It was closed in 1969 and left the way it was on its last day of operation with machinery and tools dating as far back as 1870.
The shop is beside the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania. It specialized in repairing barges, tug boats, and other river vessels and making replacement parts.
Even the tiny metal shavings or filings remain on the tools.
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See more images like this in my Y.A. Young Machine Shop album:
www.flickr.com/photos/cj_proartz/albums/72157654848957191...
Labourers are working for drying threads after colouring for making saree in a village in West Bengal, India
KEFALONIA - ΚΕΦΑΛΟΝΙΑ (Mirtos beach - Παραλία Μύρτου)
My wife Theresa Jane Brown and I are on a Dance vacation, July 2-9, 2017.
Taken on July 7, 2017.
Kefalonia island, Ionian sea (where the movie "CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN" was filmed, starring Nicolas Cage and Penelope Cruz).
Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανάσης Φουρναράκος
Professional Photographer, Athens, Greece
(retired in 2011, born in 1946).
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