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Ein schweres Gewicht hatte nicht nur dieser Eisblock zu tragen. Das was die Träger hier täglich leisten war phänomenal. Mit schweren Lasten und wackeligen Schuhen bewegen sie sich äußerst sicher und schnell über den Gletscher - beeindruckend!
A platform scale-weight laying along the walkway at Westminster Abbey -- wonder how long it has been holding down that block?
For 'MacroMondays' theme of 'Copper'.
Perhaps our kitchen is old fashioned, or more likely we are, but everyday we use brass weights and a copper pan balance - no electronic scales here!
So quite naturally these weights that look like chess pieces are a 'natural' for this week's MM theme of 'Copper'. Taken from the kitchen these three were placed on a mirror in my study and lit with just one LED lamp with a red enamelled sweet tin providing the reflected colour.
That weight to the front is for 1/4oz (about 7g), is only 16mm high, and with its two companions takes less than 2" of the allowed 3". And all three are back in their allotted place in the kitchen !
Olympus Zuiko OM Auto Macro 50mm ............................ less than 2"
I pulled into Nazareth
Was feeling 'bout half past dead
I just need some place
Where I can lay my head
"Hey, mister, can you tell me
Where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand
And "No" was all he said...
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We rolled into Ash Fork, Arizona before noon after a wonderful time in Williams and the first thing we noticed, besides the Hi-Line Motel was how few people were out and about...almost like a living ghost town...
Wrap up and enjoy!
This is my new favourite lunch & is so cheap! I buy the ingredients at the start of the week and it lasts!
You really need the sauces as they add flavour so you actually enjoy what you're eating & it doesn't taste like diet food.
Total lunch points: 4pts
Original photo: CJ www.flickr.com/photos/frootsmoothie/1831755111
Process: Yours Truly
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A scale or balance is a device used to measure weight or mass. These are also known as mass scales, weight scales, mass balances, massometers, and weight balances.
When I was in England I stumbled upon this man on the beach, half dressed, bruised and bleeding. He was shivering violently and his teeth chattered together so much his words were barely audible, but he managed to tell me he had carried this suitcase full of rocks all the way from France, or rather... swam with it... across the English Channel.
When I asked him "Why!!?", he explained that he was carrying out an old tradition; The suitcase full of rocks represented all his worries, and he'd swam the channel in order to take them, and leave them, far, far away. I wondered out loud if he was going to swim all the way back again. To which he replied, "Fuck no, I'm taking the Eurostar! ...Do you have any socks?"
We laughed and laughed, thawed our feet and hands on car air vents, and then went back to the placeI was staying, where we ate Mexican food, and I discovered he was actually a crazy Flickr photographer named Simon McCheung!! Small word, ay?
As I edged closer to the back of this old burial ground I was overwhelmed by how the visual sensation meshed so perfectly with the emotional impact of being here. Boundary lines are always a fascination for me, and here that sense was particularly keen. Both in terms of standing on the precipice of a steep ravine but even more so the frontier that separates life from death. And there's just something about foggy days that makes that metaphorical distinction as ill-defined as the atmosphere itself...again a visual that enhances the visceral. Beyond all of this was the contour of the land, and the sense of subsidence and erosion, as if the ground beneath my feet might suddenly slip away, taking me over the brink along with the old grave markers in one big woosh! A very uneasy feeling. One thing we take for granted is the solidity of the earth, and losing that is destabilizing in so many ways. I've seen videos of landslides, usually from California and they are horrifying yet oddly mesmerizing. Once it starts it just seems so inexorable. As I stood here I was taken with the sense that even the trees were contributing to the visual sense of imminent peril, tipping and leaning as they were. It appeared they were already beyond the threshold of safety. I just love scenes that offer a duality; in this case a seeming sense of serenity balanced a feeling of disorder. When everything is not all that it seems.
I would like to tell everyone who commented, invited, faved or took a look at my creations (paintings), that I am thankful and apreciated.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Botswana
Southern Africa
The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae). The lion is sexually dimorphic; males are larger than females with a typical weight range of 150 to 250 kg (331 to 551 lb) for the former and 120 to 182 kg (265 to 401 lb) for the latter. Male lions have a prominent mane, which is the most recognisable feature of the species.
A lion pride consists of a few adult males, related females and cubs. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. The species is an apex and keystone predator, although they scavenge when opportunities occur.
Typically, the lion inhabits grasslands and savannas but is absent in dense forests. It is usually more diurnal than other big cats, but when persecuted it adapts to being active at night and at twilight. In the Pleistocene, the lion ranged throughout Eurasia, Africa and the Americas from the Yukon to Peru but today it has been reduced to fragmented populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and one critically endangered population in western India.
It has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 because populations in African countries have declined by about 43% since the early 1990s. Habitat loss and conflicts with humans are the greatest causes for concern. - Source Wikipedia
The trees are sparse on the mountain. This one was one of the tallest close to the top, but it seemed to struggle a bit with the weight of winter. I almost felt a little sorry for it.
Gorillas are the largest and heaviest living primates.
These primates are listed as Critically Endangered.
Unlike other primates that move on all fours, which support their weight on the palms of the hands, gorillas support their weight on the backs of the third and fourth fingers of the curled hands. This type of locomotion is called "knuckle-walking".
« Le poids de soi », créée par les artistes scandinaves Elmgreen & Dragset.
Lyon, devant Palais de Justice
Well yesterday was a superb day at the Great Central Railway with the Timeline Events team. Nowhere else in the country can you capture scenes like this, and with Timeline bringing it all together a memorable two days on the former Great Central Mainline.
In Steam and both running towards each other we have Standard 5 73156 on maroon coaching stock as 8F 48624 is seen on the windcutters.
First railway charter in a good while and back with a bang, great to catch up with so many friends over the two days, roll on the next one :)
Water-filled plastic feet weighing down temporary fencing around a residential property that has just been cleared.