Halloween Night, 2024 ~ Creative Arts Three Day Weeked
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All treats, no tricks?
When I stared at your abstracts, I felt myself getting lost in them, and your top image is amusing with the cartoon face bursting out in the middle.
LOL I just looked again and realized it was Micky Mouse.
Arvo.. dumb question...why do you use pumpkins for Halloween?
Why not something else eg turnip or a spud?? Who decided on a pumpkin?
Just interested to know..
Aren't you aware of the story of the Great Pumpkin?
Let's not forget this...
Evening G..
Thanks for that.. wondered why it was pumpkins etc..
what? no unique to the southwestern most sandbar is there a gourd or vegetable that would dwarf the lowly pumpkin in size, color or horrifying presence after a bit of carving and some candle light?
Arvo..hmm well what can I say..there is this one that grew up NSW..I would hate having to carve this one..
Would probably squash you death if
it rolled on you..weighs 876 kilos..
I hate pumpkin anyway so I am glad it's not my photo..
They are now cross breeding pumpkins to see if they can grow teeth...so it could become a snap pumpkin..well they do have snap peas..
lovely. somehow I knew you wouldn't fail to disappoint me ...
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The leaves have fallen, the bright days are short, and I have a lot of work to do. Try to get back tonight.
Here is a picture from the same trail as I posted a few weeks ago. Just a snapshot.
"After The Colors" © TomEArtSite
It's quite a contrast.
And here is a blast from the past...
Vee-Vee and Li'l-bit all dressed up for Halloween (and saying, "Do I have to do this?")
it does look like mountains in that shot, even with the trees growing on top of them. how long before that lake in the background turns into a skating rink?
Well, we've already had snow- twice, and the skiing season usually starts on the day after Thanksgiving.
I got all of the automated snow-guns talking and functioning properly. Mother nature has blessed us with a warm autumn so far. We are getting increasingly topsy-turvey weather patterns. Nearby Lake Champlain and Lake George have had areas of open water year round, which never used to happen. But, it hadn't ought to be that long until the ponds start to get ice and we can start to make some snow.
I recently traveled from denver to salt lake area and back. beaver creek, vail, copper and breckenridge had some snow patches on the runs, probably due to snow making at night, but most of that equipment is pretty well hidden and the plumbing is all underground now. with that equipment the past boom and bust cycles of ski areas has been pretty well insulated from financial catastrophe. it was spitting snow when I crossed back over the divide going home a week ago, but it wasn't sticking. even my old favorite areas up on the divide use snow making equipment now, a basin, loveland, and keystone, and then use it again late in the season to extend it into summer.
Morning...if looks could kill..
Snow?? what snow?
No snow here sun sand and surf but no snow..not a snow flake in sight..
LOL. You're right, they DO look a little uncomfortable.
I just looked outside and there isn't a kangaroo in sight.
Eat some Vegemite..then they will be everywhere..🦘
Not my photo but have seen them like this mob..
Will peanut butter do? I have no Vegemite.
denver metro got the first snow last night ...
The princess and the frog.
my 6 year old granddaughter was wednesday addams at school and then a zombie cheerleader last night. both her idea.
I can't wait to see my grandkids again in person on Christmas Day.
they are a lot of fun.
Those are exceptional photos.
Thank you. My daughter in law took the photos. I dropped them into photoshop to crop and edit them.
The top one is classic.
All it needs is a key light and a wind machine... LMAO!
The Princess and the Frog was a story I used in teaching English to Chinese kids. Your grandchild, the frog, will turn into a prince one day if the "frog" is a boy, in which case it would be the same as my two kids were - a girl followed 4 years later by a boy.
Untitled 0446 (© G. Gam)
Untitled 1910 (© G. Gam)
great effects ...
The top one is stunning, and the second one mysterious, quite appropriate for Hallowe'en.
WOW
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Had Van Gogh created that image he would have called it "Palms on a Starry Night". As I posted a while ago on my article about favourite paintings by famous artists, wherein one of my favourites was Van Gogh's "Cafe on a Starry Night".
DOUBLE WOW.
great composition amac.
A Day Late, But Still For Hallowe'en
Not a beauty but a beast
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Take your pick
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Misty moon
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Monster gods
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This sculpted image is mounted inside just beside our door to keep away evil persons.
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Graffiti on the perimeter wall of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute that is kitty corner from where we live.
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The spooky tree
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Was your spooky tree an oak, by any chance? Looks morphologically similar.
I don't know. I would have had to see its leaves to identify it, and I don't even remember where I took that photo.
The top photo is abit like the statues on Easter island..
Not my photo but looks a very interesting place to visit.
You're right, I never thought about that. It's about 3 metres tall and is on the campus of the same university as the graffiti image is, so it could even have been created by a student. There are a lot of students' creations there. Over the years I've posted a lot of photos of them on NT.
Since that photo was taken, someone was curious as to how far underground they go, so they dug. It turns out that they do indeed continue underground:
Photo: The Planet
The top photo is a bit like the statues on Easter island..
Here a little UBI ("Unimportant but interesting"):
What does -mycin mean?
The combining form –mycin is used like a suffix to name antibiotics, typically those that come from fungi. It can also be used to refer to antibiotics derived from the bacteria Streptomyces, which has a fungus-like structure.
Well, there's a antibiotic that is derived from a fungus native to Easter Island. Its the mTOR that's called Rapamycin.
What I find interesting about that is that the name the indigenous people of Easter Island called themselselves was The Rapa Nui People.
It may be that Rapamycin is the only (or one of only a few?) drugs name after an indigenous people!
Which stands for "Target of Rapamycin" (in mammals).
But you don't have to know that!
Rapa Nui became the Polynesian name for Easter Island as of the 1860s. Before that it may have been known as Te Pito o Te Henua (The Navel of the World). The monolithic statues are called mo'ais (mo'ai-singular).
Don't they also use statues of Foo Dogs (for protection) near the main entrance?
Foo dogs a/k/a "Shi" are actually lions rather than dogs, and are quite common in China. Here is a photo of a couple of them that I took when I was in an ancient village in Sichuan Province.
Although they are meant to guard temples, these are most likely for sale from the shop behind them. Although they are meant to depict male and female, they are identical save for what is under one of their paws. The male holds a globe, meaning the world, and the other holds a cub, identifying the foo dog as a female.
I think you will be interested in knowing more about them, because of their tie-in with Feng Shui and Yin-Yang. Here is an excellent explanation:
LINK -> What Are Foo Dogs - The Chinese Temple Guardians?
Morning..we actually have Ghost Gums.. magnificent white trunked trees that grow in the outback..they got their name as they appear to glow at night and the Kooris associate them with spirits..
Not my photos..
it's only natural to assume that even the plant life is blood thirsty on the world's biggest sandbar ...
Morning...tasty tourists are always on the menu so was that one ticket or two?
Qantas will even offer a mass discount..
their no refunds to people that get eaten in oz policy is a huge money making scam by that airline ...
Someone's got to do it..
Be it on land or in the sea..
You will get eaten for free.🦈🐊
Closest thing I've seen to that is a white birch tree. (internet photo)
Have one of them in my backyard..the white trunk comes in handy while wandering around at night so I don't run into it..
The white birch tree bark comes in handy to build canoes with.
Heat it up next to a fire and birch tar will ooze out. The glue of the stone age. Extremely useful for many thousands of years.
Weakened Birch trees are prone to infection by what are sometimes called "Shelf Mushrooms", birch polypore, or "Birch Bracket". They are not actually "Mushrooms" but rather a type of Fungus:
There are different varieties have medicinal use. Some of the European varieties of Birch Polyphores can be ground up (and the active constituents heat extracted), and IIRC they may assist Apoptosis (cell death) of Cancer cells? But I'm not sure of this as I'm not a Dr.(Nor do I POOTV!)
Obviously ghosts live inside of them!
That could explain whey they're pure white. They come out only on Hallowe'en.
Actually you are not far wrong..the Kooris believe they contain the spirits of their dead ancestors..hence glowing at night..
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Now, THAT'S a Hallowe'en image.
when I was a kid, the midnight pumpkin ghouls would come out and lob all the pumpkins left out front into the street ...
Morning...wow they are brilliant..
When I scrolled down and saw your top picture it almost knocked me off my chair.
Last call! Thanks to everyone. Closing down soon.