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Barbie gets ready for a little girls time with Midge!
Barbie is wearing a beautiful dresses by My Dolly Dollsl www.etsy.com/shop/MyDollyDolls on ETSY.
Barbie is featured in the Vintage Barbie 1962 Dream House Reproduction by Mattel with furniture by Ken Haseltine. Monkey and pillow sheet set from etsy seller DAY DREAMERS By Jana at www.etsy.com/shop/DAYDREAMERSByJana.
Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
I made a new video yesterday. My first attempt at a little stop motion film using BJD's :)
Please check it out here:
Local to me is the exceptionally well kept fleet of 'Paul's Coaches'. Very occasionally I've been asked to help cover a school contract, and on the last such afternoon a while ago, my steed was this ex MoD Plaxton 'Derwent' bodied Leyland Tiger. These bus chassied Tigers were inevitably a good buy when de-mobbed as they'd done tiny mileage compared to a run of the mill PSV and had been maintained regardless of cost. The only real downsides were that they had leaf suspension instead of air, and they had manual gearboxes with all the awfulness Leyland managed to squeeze into its operation.
D458 ENV fortunately, had been converted to semi-automatic during its time with Edward Thomas coaches of West Ewell before coming here, so was vastly more pleasant and mild mannered.
The photo was taken at the operator's Mow Cop premises just as the bus had been washed in readiness for my using it.
Because of the PSVAR regulations which have beset the operating industry, the Tiger was recently sidelined and was offered for sale.
Tidy Tips Flower. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A spring tidy tips flower.
This photographs takes me back just a few months to this past April, when a wetter-than-normal winter produced a spectacular wildflower bloom all over California. The state's late-winter and spring transition is always special, but in these wet years it can astound. Places that are dry and brown most of the year are magically transformed — with fields of lush grasses and wildflowers everywhere.
In early April we made a weeklong trip to some of these typically dry areas to photograph the brief display. We spent a couple of days in the hills located roughly between the coast and the Central Valley. As we headed east, into increasingly drier climates, we stopped at one remarkable valley carpeted with wildflowers, the place where I made this photograph.
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The first true coaches to enter service with Maidstone & District for a number of years arrived in April 1988. The vehicles in question were a pair of Leyland Tiger TRCTL11/2ARH fitted with Plaxton ‘Paramount 3500 3’ coachwork. Originally numbered 2186 and 2187 they were renumbered C186 and C187 in January 1990. C186 (E186 XKO) is seen here at Thurrock Services on the M25 motorway in Essex on June 7th 1992.
I assume these are compliments of CalTrans, but they are native wildflowers: Tidy Tips, Layia platyglossa, and Sky Lupine, Lupinus nanus,
Just north of Pt. Piedras Blancas, NW San Luis Obispo Co., California
Locomotive Services D6851 / 37667 approaches Appleford working light engine from Nuneaton CE to Didcot TC.
Appleford, Oxon. 18 May 2021
Sometime bright, sometimes overcast
Tidy Tips. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A tidy tips flower, above a bed of baby blue-eyes.
My relationship with things that require naming is... complicated. I photograph birds, but I only know the identities of a few particular types that I photograph. I've never been able to recall the names of the various trees of California, aside from the most obvious ones. And flowers have always been a problem. I may know the flower by sight, I might be able to tell you when and where to find it, and it is possible that I can even describe the plant it grows on. My naming the flower? Not likely. At best, I can manage to keep track of the popular names of a few of the most obvious and familiar types — California golden poppy, paintbrush, shooting star, and a few others.
But this one I know is called "tidy tips." (Unless someone is pulling my leg...) The name seems to make sense, and I presume that it refers to the striking pattern of the yellow center and the white tips of the petals. I photographed this specimen in a central California meadow in early April, when this years spectacular bloom was at its peak. The flower is an individual specimen, but it grew among many, many thousands of other flowers including the baby blue-eye that appear in the background.
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Miss Magoo Imago -
Cleaning is dirty and backbreaking work but someone has to do it. Monday, I get busy when a spitting cobra with sputtering habit check-in. Tuesday a millipede with million legs. His muddy prints left me with no time. Wednesday, I nearly lost my grip and skate on the slime trails left behind by slugs after their algae party. Thursday, senseless tiger moth caterpillar with severe hair loss gave me a mouthful of fleece. Why can’t he just cut off everything and make bare like me? Yippee! Friday’s here, I thought I could rest. Alas, a hyperactive mouse with urinal incontinence kept me on my toes all night. Curving and straightening from one end to the other, I tidy up the area by shoving termite sawdust and beetle droppings down the floor. In the midst of catching my breath, a passerine called to complain about the sanitary condition in her hollow abode. She parroted eight times, nine times now why her coop is colonized by blood sucking flies. I can’t stand it when she tweet a threat: “I’ll change my diet and eat you tomorrow if you don’t throw out the vermin!” Tolerance is two-faced. Outwardly, I listen and feign a nod. Inwardly, I screeched at that bee-eater with bird brain. One can only do so little. Does she expect me to have the housekeeping skills of daughter–in-law? What did I get for a life of servitude? Nothing but a permanent curved spine. Maybe this log house should import more foreign talents into Singapore. Chameleons from Madagascar, for an example, will handle the problem of biting midges with far-reaching tongues. I heard your question. Who exactly am I? Well, what I am is all perception you see. More often than not, the human mindset is so shallow and grey. Are you embarrassed to admit you didn’t see in the image, a butterfly shuffling uphill? I hope this truth rebirth your eyes. In due time, I will quit the job of motel caretaker and wing up happily for moths are born to airplane the sky.
I don't make a bad housewife in all truth. I don't mind doing the washing and tidying however i am not keen on cooking i think its one of those in the shadow of my wife (who is a fab cook) kind of things. cheese on toast isn't really a dinner is it.
If these two photos haven't disturbed you enough the next will.
The lovely yellow flowers with white-tipped petals, blooming around Soda Lake at Carrizo Plain National Monument.
The smartest King Long i have seen so far, complete except for seats is Maynes N88GSM a King Long XMQ6120C C68F ???...Photo taken in the garage 28/04/14
Tidying up in the Quaker cemetery on the newly laid wood chipped path, Hull General Cemetery. A memorial to Matthew Gold Photos taken with an iPhone SE on a cold blustery day.In monochrome.
This picture is looking down Drapery towards the junction with Mercers Row in Northampton. The two buses are both Daimler CVG6 with Roe H33/26R bodies. JVV 213 dates from 05/1959 and ENH 253D from 01/1966 some naughty person has opened the emergency exit upstairs on 253. Also present in this traffic free shot is an Austin 1800 and a very new looking white Bedford HA van. the picture is undated but I would suggest 1968 as a start.
Peter Shoesmith.
*Scanners note. This picture come from a new box of Peter's bus pictures discovered this morning in a box marked trains, bless him! This particular picture is so thin there is no visible detail in the sky or road. The Epson scanner found it, how did it do that? I only scanned it to see what would happen, Photoshop did the rest! okay it's not wonderful but it nearly went in the bin.
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