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Buddy is monitoring the interior of the old squash house at Wright-Locke Farm. The farm has gone quiet for the winter, and those tools won't be used again until early spring. Buddy, however, is still on duty, though I don't think he has many responsibilities.
There is quite a difference in winter versus the warm months in observing the eating habits of pheasants. In the summer time unless you are out very early in the mornings or happen to catch them searching for bits of gravel to serve as grit to help their digestion, pheasants often are more hidden as they seek things to eat. They normally have a menu with more entries on it than they do during the winter.
The phrase “scratching out a living” goes all the way back to the 14th-15th centuries when in the older farming communities the farmers “scratched” the land using more primitive tools.
By the 18th-19th centuries, the use of the phrase gained uses beyond that of farming to include anyone who was barely making ends meet in their day to day struggle.
Jump ahead until today and the phrase applies to a broad spectrum of normally physically hard, low paying jobs or an unstable work life.
I grew up in an era when there were only a few government help agencies and can well remember my folks talking about people around them during the Depression and beyond who spent many years on community “poor farms”.
Poor farms were quite prevalent at one time in the US and folks who were unable to work due to age, disability or other factors were housed and fed in exchange for helping to produce food and maintain a farm. Local governments ran the farms as they were considered a cost-effective way to care for the needy rather than simply doling out monies to individuals.
It carried negative connotations for participants, particularly because they were labeled “inmates.”
Poor farms gradually petered out by the middle of last century with many in Minnesota closing in the 1930s due to government programs starting up such as Social Security in 1935 and the growing prevalence of nursing homes.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Nikon F eyefinder (@1973)
Ilford Film FP4+ 200 ISO
Ilford Microphen Dev.
Scan: 1200 DPI
Hand Held photo
underexposed in advance
photographed dec. 2023
Huntington Beach, California
A young skilled surfer tests the waves on a summer morning in Huntington Beach which is also know as Surf City USA.
The morning was overcast and so the water did not display its usual clarity and color. The advantage though is the lack of strong shadows on the surfer's face. Wave Tools happens to be a brand of surfboard. It is not my intention to advertise for them, but thought that in this photo, the board provided both an interesting commentary and a splash of needed color.
Nikon D850
Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR at 200 mm
1/3,200 sec at f/3.5 ISO 100
August 23, 2022
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If you should happen to be the young man in the photo, you have my permission to print a copy of this photo for your personal non-commercial use.
Macro Mondays theme: Tool
Attachments for Dremel tool.
Thanks for your recent comments and likes. Have been mostly offline this month. Hope to be back in the groove soon.
HMM
I gues she has watched to many home improvement shows with us and now she is sleeping on the tool bench!!LOL
A 16mm wood cutting tool, this drill bit cuts 16mm circular holes in wood or fibreboard. It is often used to prepare a seating for recessed door handles and hinges on cabinets. I used my vintage Metz 45 "hammerhead" flash unit off camera to light this image.
FlickrFriday: Hand tools. For photography, I like any object at home that can be turned into a cool macro, or bokeh.
Our Daily Challenge: Brush(es)
Compositionally Challenged: Reflections week - the brush is a reflection, everything that is 'real' is blurred and turned into bokeh. :-)
365: Day 225
“All the tools,
techniques and technology
in the world are nothing
without the head, heart and hands
to use them wisely, kindly and mindfully”
(Rasheed Ogunlaru)
Mini Block Planer
(Solid brass and rose wood)
For #MacroMondays #HandTool
Macro: <3” x 1 ½"
”
Happy MM Everyone !
ƒ/2.8
4.5 mm
1/15 Sec
ISO 400
June 8th, 2018 (8:22)
Dedicated to C.F. (ILYWAMHASAM)
#AbFav_TOOLS_INSTRUMENTS_🎺
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
Expressive hands, you can clearly see what their instruments mean to them.
Just think of all our hands can do!
Wishing you all a colourful day, and thank you as always for your time, Magda (*_*)
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tools, instruments, music, musician, people, colour, hands, caressing, emotion, care, design, vertical, horizontal, "Nikon D7000", "magda indigo"
Just some tools from the garage.
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of another of my loves...
gardening.
what can i say?
its one of the most calming, rewarding experiences i know.
when i'm in my garden...
physically...
or mentally planning...
i can get lost for hours.
if i go outside to pull one weed...
i look at my watch to see an hour has passed...
especially if i've got my ipod and am performing for the neighbors.
today...
i walked along the perimeter of my garden...
and discovered that i have tomatoes on a few of my plants.
i was ecstatic!
i went back inside...
grabbed my camera...
and proceeded to take photos of tomatoes and flowers...
just beginning to bloom.
it began to rain...
and since i hadn't had my fill of gardening yet...
i came inside, created this photo...
and then proceeded to plant the basil seeds that were given to me with the pot.
#AbFav_WOOD_
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
Each specialty has its own special tools, which must have been conceived and made out of experience?
Bettering the tools all the time for the job?
Here, two specialists, Willem Vermandere and his woodcuts and Vincent Flachet, a luthier...
We had the honour to visit their workplace.
With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments, M, (* _ *)
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They sat on the steps and waited. One girl took out her handphone and busy thumbs began hitting characters. When there were no handphones, she will probably be like the other girls looking out into the river collecting her thoughts. The modern tools of convenience left us with little time with ourselves. We have lost the art of conversation with ourselves. Maybe, I’m just being too nostalgic.
Today at Crazy Tuesday Group the theme is: tools. Since it is an orange day At Color My World Daily Group, the color for today is orange… And of course, my tiny Mr. Teddy Bear is here since it is a Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday!! So orange tools and Teddy Bear day! How cool is that.
And who is a constant need of tools (of every sizes and shapes) and happens to be a huge fan of orange color? Mr. Kosmo himself!
Tools are truly important in space. You need them to open a bottle of wine, scratch your back, comb your hair before putting your helmet on or just to repair your spaceship. And since Mr. Kosmo is now a new proud owner of red space rocket bought on ebay, he needs his tools! Indeed, the red rocket was slightly used when he got it… and a little bit beaten up (more than specified in the ebay description!). Let just say that this red rocket needs a lot of TLC before going anywhere… But Mr.Kosmo is thrilled: for the second time in his life he feels like a real astronaut !! The first time he got that feeling was when he received his orange suit and put it on for the very first time…
Mr. Kosmo isn’t a handy man (but he is truly handsome under his helmet... so he doesn’t need to be handy...or that is what he likes to think) …. That is why he invited his friend Mr. Teddy Bear who has a very successful construction company. Mr. Teddy Bear isn’t handsome but he is truly handy, so this makes him quite a catch for the opposite sex! Ladies, Mr.Teddy Bear is able to repair anything ! Give him an axe, some scotch tape and a screw driver and he will build a you plane or a spaceship !
Of course, since there is no gravity in space, it is very important to keep everything, including your tools and yourself, glued to the ground. And then the reparation of the red space rocket can begin. Good luck Mr. Kosmo and Mr.Teddy Bear !!!
Have a beautiful orange, tools, teddy bear day!!! Happy Crazy Tuesday, Happy Teddy Bear Tuesday and Color My World Daily to all participants!!
Thank you so much for your support!!! I truly appreciate your positive energy!! I wish you a very happy and awesome day!!!