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you couldn't see her face, but you saw everything else.
the title of this photo was inspired by lyrics to dirty dream number two
Using a rapid stroke helps me to be accurate, which seems counterintuitive
11x14 Graphite
*Created at the Alex and Alyson Grey Workshop
Copyright, Sara Light-Waller 2011.
Just finished the two big horses tonight. This is a colored pencil piece done with Polychromos pencils on Rivers paper. I blogged about it today. You can read the entry here: flyingponystudios.blogspot.com/2011/06/horse-art-two-roan...
two former Readers Digest Condensed Books with decorative covers are now slim 2 ring binder notebooks. See profile for more info.
Two Czech "Škodas" (class 181), nos. 181 018-3 and 181-106-6 work an unidentified rake of empty box wagons west through Radibórz on 20 September, 2013
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchos
Mallard
Status: Resident, winter migrant from Iceland, Fennoscandia, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium & France. Additional captive-bred birds are released each year for hunting.
Conservation Concern: Green-listed in Ireland. The European population is regarded as Secure by BirdLife International.
Identification: Among the largest of our ducks (with the exception of Shelduck). Males with striking green head, yellow bill, white ring around the necj, grey underparts, blue speculum, black rump. Females brown in colour, but with blue speculum, dark stripe across the eye and whitish tail sides.
Similar Species: Males are unmistakable. Females and juveniles resemble other female and immature dabbling ducks.
Call: Male with nasal 'rheab', repeated when alert on water, and short whistle during courtship. Loud quacking of females.
Diet: Diet highly variable, and plant material, particularly seeds predominate. A range of animal material is also taken, including molluscs and crustaceans. Other food taken includes grain and stubble, and they have been shown to feed on a variety of food items presented by humans.
Breeding: Nest sites vary, mostly in ground where hidden in vegetation.
Wintering: Mallard are the most widespread species, although not quite as numerous as Wigeon or Teal. They occur in almost all available wetland habitats in Ireland.
Where to See: Common throughout Ireland. Loughs Neagh & Beg in County Antrim, Wexford Harbour & Slobs in County Wexford, Lough Foyle in County Derry, Strangford Lough in County Down and Lough Swilly in County Donegal are among the top wintering sites (1,000-5,500 birds).
Monitored by: Irish Wetland Bird Survey.
[From October 2004]
After the horror of making the first with a splodgey head, I had to make another, this time stuffing the head with cotton balls before filling it with plastic pellets. Look at their hands, they're NUBBINS!
But it could've been worse. Gotta look at the bright side.
The two bridges across the Kiel-Canal at Holtenau.
Hints and fair comments are always appreciated.
Don't use this image on any media without my permission.
© All rights reserved by Christian Staack.
Sharon Sayles Belton, former mayor of Minneapolis, with newly elected St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III.
Oh dear... more Johnny! Johnny taking two on the set for Public Enemies. Crew was shooting a scene with 1930s police and Johnny all day.
© Valerie Miller 2008
I have to admit this is not one of my photos, well it's a photo I took of a photo (which I have dited slightly.)
This is one of three images pinched from a photographic compliation my parents have hanging in their house, taken the day after Boxing Day.
My brother, his wife and children were over from Australia for Christmas and we all spent a wonderful morning together in a photographer's studio ... such great fun!
:o)
St Mary, Linton, Cambridgeshire
A big church in one of south Cambridgeshire's larger villages. Lots of interesting buildings, suggesting that Linton was a very prosperous place in the 17th and 18th Century. I wonder why it never developed into a proper town? The church is away from the high street, sequestered in a rather tight churchyard. We are only a few miles from the county border, and architecturally this is entirely a Suffolk church, with clerestories and aisles and big gargoyles. In 2012 I had found the church open, and a sign on the inner door saying it was open every day, but coming back in the middle of the day in May 2018 was to find a locked church with no keyholder notice.
I knocked on the door of the rectory, but no one was in. I rang the team vicar, who was the most apologetic person I think I've ever spoken to. 'Oh dear, oh dear, I'm sorry, its my fault, I was just thinking about it, I usually open it, only it's my day off, and the man who opens it for me is on holiday, oh dear...' she said she'd come straight down on her bike, but before she got there the churchwarden arrived. She'd been summoned by someone else, not for the locked church but to show a workman a job that needed doing. She was very surprised to find the church locked, and happily unlocked it for us as the team vicar arrived. Everyone was most apologetic, and dismayed that we hadn't found the church open.
The workman's job was to fix the overhead projector screen hanging in the chancel arch, which makes the heart sink a bit but in fact it was not particularly intrusive in this big and rather cluttered space. The south aisle is dominated by the memorial to brother and sister Elizabeth Bacon and Peter Standly, the 1782 work of Joseph Wilton. Two life-size figures flank a large urn, a somewhat operatic Hope on the left and an angel laying a wreath on the right. A detail which you might not immediately notice is the little dog who lies at the feet of the angel.
There are a number of other good memorials, but the best of them is behind the organ at the east end of the north aisle, and it is worth squeezing round to take a look at it. It remembers John and Alice Millicent, and was installed here in 1705 but with all the imagery of more than half a century earlier - their hands are joined on top of a skull, Alice leans on an hour glass, a cherub with an anchor represents Hope, while another, holding an hour glass, stands with a foot on a skull. It must have dominated the church before the organ was installed, but today is all but invisible and almost impossible to photograph apart from some details. As Pevsner notes, it is oddly ironed flat, as if pressed against a wall, creating the absurd illusion that the organ was here first and the memorial was slipped in behind it.
The south aisle has roundels of continental glass, and one which contains the upper part of an English 15th Century figure of St Philip which may have come from here originally. There is good 20th Century glass, the best of which depicts Christ meeting the Samarian woman at the well flanked by two gorgeous angels. It is one of only half a dozen East Anglian windows by the great suffragette artist Mary Lowndes, and was installed just before the First World War. The sower window is as striking, but unsigned, and no one seems to know who it is by. Could it be by Reginald Bell? There is a good 1901 window by Lavers & Westlake, depicting the Adoration of the Magi and installed in memory of Queen Victoria, in the pastelly style of the day. At the east end of the south aisle, AL Moore's war memorial window is also striking, but an uneasy composition I think.
Perhaps this church does not have the wow factor of some of the smaller and more remote churches in this area, but it is full of interest and, as we have seen, wants to be welcoming.
i hate how it's one week before christmas and i still have a weeks worth of school left.
where's the fun in that?
Éjszaka a Siemens Combino villamosok között (Budapest, Magyarország) / Between two Siemens Combino trams at night (Budapest, Hungary)
Pattern:
Two-Tone Ribbed Shrug by Stefanie Japel from Fitted Knits.
Size: 16".
Yarn: Jämsän Huopatehdas Retu, 300 g.
Needles: 3,5 mm and 2,5 mm.
Absolutely lovely pattern! The design of the collar is really clever and fits perfectly.
I call it winter shrug because this time of year my shoulders and neck can really use some extra warmth, and this shrug meets the demand.
I made the shrug with long sleeves and in one colour, so I should probably call this One-Tone Ribbed Shrug... ;)