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I love this zig zag quilt with greys and creams. The values are a little off as I wanted to make this from the stash & wanted to have lots of variation.
Ex QR DD17 1047 leads it train across one of the viaducts on the Zig Zag Railway at Lithgow. April 1981.
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I've been having a trip down memory lane and recently dug out my old black and white negatives from years ago. This was taken in 1994 of the steam engine on the Zig Zag railway outside of Lithgow. Whilst the negative may not be as sharp as the digital age it brought back memories of printing negatives in my darkroom.
Pattern found on the purl bee. Fabric is mostly Katie Jump Rope with a few others mixed in.
blogged at crochetcami.blogspot.com
Origin
Native to south-eastern USA (i.e. Florida and Louisiana), Mexico, Central America (i.e. Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama), the Caribbean, South America (i.e. French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Paraguay) and tropical Africa (i.e. Chad, south-western Ethiopia, Sudan, Cameroon, Zaire, Benin, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Zambia).
Cultivation
Thalia (Thalia geniculata) is commonly grown in private and public gardens as an ornamental, particularly in ponds and water features. A form with red leaf stalks is also popular in cultivation. This plant is known as red-stemmed thalia (Thalia geniculata 'Ruminoides' or Thalia geniculata forma ruminoides).
Naturalised Distribution
Locally naturalised in south-eastern Queensland. This species was first recorded as naturalised in Toowong in Brisbane in January 2006. It has since been recorded from waterways in other parts of Brisbane including along Ithaca and Ekibin Creeks.
Habitat
This species prefers wet habitats such as ponds, roadside ditches, swamps, the margins of lakes and dams, and along waterways. In its native range in North America it grows in ponds, swamps, marshes, and along stream banks.
Habit
A large upright plant, growing up to 3 m or more in height. It spreads via short, thick underground stems (i.e. rhizomes) to form large clumps. The rhizomes are usually found in the mud under the water surface and give rise to clumps of upright leaves that have their bases under the water surface (i.e. usually growing as an emergent, with the base of the plant submerged and the majority of the plant growing above the water surface).
Distinguishing Features
* a large upright plant forming large clumps and growing up to 3 m or more in height.
* it usually grows in water and most of its leaves are tufted at the base of the plant.
* these leaves have a long and thick stalk and a very large leaf blade (up to 75 cm long and 25 cm wide).
* its purple flowers are borne in large branched clusters at the top of the flowering stems.
* these flowers are partially enclosed in green or purple-tinged hairy bracts (13-28 mm long).
* its small fruit (9-12 mm long) are shed from the plant along with the floral bracts.
Stems and Leaves
The leaves consist of a long and thick stalk (i.e. petiole) and a very large and expanded leaf blade. These leaf stalks have sheaths at their bases that enclose either the flowering stems or the bases of other leaf stalks. Leaf stalks of younger plants are generally thicker and more buoyant in nature than those on older plants. The very large leaf blades (up to 75 cm long and 25 cm wide) have a large midrib that is prominently raised on their undersides. These leaves also have entire margins and pointed tips (i.e. acute apices).
Flowers and Fruit
The flowers are borne in large branched clusters at the top of the plant (i.e. in terminal panicles). These clusters have a couple of large leafy bracts at the joints of the main branches. The flowers themselves are clustered near the ends of the drooping branch tips. These flowers have an unusual and complex structure. Pairs of stalkless (i.e. sessile) flowers are partially enclosed in green, or occasionally purple-tinged, hairy bracts (13-28 mm long). These flowers are exact mirror-images of each other and may be easily mistaken for a single flower. They are pale to dark purple in colour (about 20 mm long), with yellowish centres, and are made up of three partially fused petals and a couple of petal-like structures (i.e. staminodes). Flowering occurs mostly during summer and early autumn.
The small fruiting capsules (9-12 mm long and 6-7 mm wide) are almost round in shape (i.e. ellipsoid) and do not split open at maturity. Each of these fruit contains a single large smooth seed (7-10 mm long and 5-6 mm wide) that is dark brown to black in colour. The fruit are shed from the plant along with the floral bracts and the stem they leave behind usually has a conspicuous zig-zagging appearance.
Reproduction and Dispersal
Thalia reproduces by seed and also spreads laterally via its creeping underground stems (i.e. rhizomes).
The seeds can be dispersed downstream during floods, as can pieces of rhizome that are dislodged from larger plants. Both, but particularly the rhizomes, can also be spread into waterways in dumped garden waste.
Source: keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/thalia_g...
A zig-zag, double cut string oak stair with a frameless, toughened and laminated glass balustrade.
All the fixings and construction parts have been hidden beneath secret panels to give a clean and uncluttered look.
Another card using SSS Spring Flowers, but this time I added color to the gold embossed die cuts by scribbling with Zigs & spritzing with water. The dots & sentiment are PTI. Close up in my blog post ggnursecreations.blogspot.com/2020/03/friendship-birthday.... I'm entering SSS Flickr Challenge 145 www.flickr.com/groups/simonsaysstamp/discuss/721577134735... TFL
The design is starting to show. I'm trying for a value gradient in black & white for the background and I'm interested to see how that goes.
A cypress-lined road zig-zagging up a hill in the Tuscan countryside
Nikon D300 | Nikkor28-300@68mm | ƒ10 | 1/30 | ISO200
Ho ereditato una macchina da cucire dalla zia Martina, sorella di mia nonna, che è stata camiciaia, staffetta partigiana, operaia zanussi e sindacalista, incallita fumatrice, ottantacinquenne pilota spericolata... Una vecchia Pfaff industriale.
Fremantle 'Harbour Classic' 2015, organised by Fremantle Sailing Club and sponsored by Fremantle harbour (among others)
14k Gold fill wire has been used to create a fun Zig Zag pattern down the length of this sterling silver wire wrapped bangle. Six strands of sterling silver wire form the core of this bangle which has a simple hook clasp built into each end of the bangle. 14k Gold fill wire then wraps the silver strands together at the same time as creating the fun zig zag pattern.
A funky, fun and original bangle for those who like to mix their precious metals!
Length: 7 1/2 in (19cm) - will fit up to a 7 in wrist.
Zig Zag Railway Video. www.youtube.com/50LDT3ezG_0
Zig Zag Railway is an Australian heritage railway outside of Lithgow, New South Wales operating on the Lithgow Zig Zag line which was part of the Main Western line from October 1869 until October 1910 when replaced by the Ten Tunnels deviation. It was reopened as a heritage railway in October 1975.
10 class locomotive 1004 is still wearing its last colour scheme as it was in service on the Emu Bay Railway. The only difference is that it now wears the Zig Zag lettering.
a maybe for cwd653: Zig-Zag
This concrete sculpture called Sailing is designed by Þorkell Gunnar Guðmundsson and put up in honor of all sailors from Hafnarjörður, Iceland.
Sigling eftir Þorkel Gunnar Guðmundsson stendur við Íþróttahúsið við Strandgötu í Hafnarfirði.
Í tilefni af 1000 ára afmæli Íslandsbyggðar árið 1974 var efnt til samkeppni um útilistaverk og var Sigling sett upp af Sjómannadagsráði á sjómannadaginn 1974 til heiðurs hafnfirskri sjómannastétt
Zig Zag Railway Video. www.youtube.com/50LDT3ezG_0
Zig Zag Railway is an Australian heritage railway outside of Lithgow, New South Wales operating on the Lithgow Zig Zag line which was part of the Main Western line from October 1869 until October 1910 when replaced by the Ten Tunnels deviation. It was reopened as a heritage railway in October 1975.