2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour
3. Once they are dry, pick a pencil and paper... Let your imagination flow
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Careful out there .....
some just don't take trespassing lightlysee caption under pic
From: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/10/01/29/
From: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/10/01/29/
Who knew?
Platypus
The platypus looks, for all intents and purposes, like a joke. A slapped together set of features and parts of other animals, evolving in the island obscurity of Australia. Wait, what country? Oh you know exactly where this is going now...that's right, even the comically misshapen platypus will do you in. For all their bumbling charms, platypuses have a number of points in their favor. Firstly, they're damned fast swimmers. They can also hunt their prey by detecting the electrical fields generated by their muscular contractions. That's right, they can track by telltale signs of your body's electricity. How badass is that? Not only that, but the Platypus is one of the few venomous mammals to be found. Only the males pack this heat, on the spurs of their hind legs. While it's powerful enough to kill animals around the size of a dog, it won't kill you. But you might just wish it had. The pain is so excruciating that it's completely incapacitating, and can last for months. You also get edema, starting at the site of the wound, and then rapidly spreading. That's when weird fluids building up beneath your skin, making the effected area all swollen and lumpy.
Size really does matter !
Colt 4.5
Dipoldocus really is three times the length and two times the height of a double decker bus
An Early Submarine - 50's era?
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Mars Alert!
These are photos of the Red Plant. I'd say are unique!
Jan 27th, Mars will be closer to Earth than any other time between 2008 and 2014.
Below, this image looks remarkably like groves of trees growing among Martian dunes but, the trees are an optical illusion. They are actually dark streaks of sediment on the downwind side of the dunes. They were created by escaping gas from the evaporating carbon dioxide ice below. The bottom of the ice melts into vapor and moves toward holes in the ice carrying dark sediment along with it that is then deposited when the gas escapes.
Below a dune field on the floor of a crater made by an asteroid impact.
Elvis
“The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.”
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Mouse vs Leopard
and the mouse wins!
This mouse danced with death when it tucked itself into the lunch
of a hungry leopard. Like a little child and seemingly unaware of the beast towering over it,
the mischievous rodent grabbed at scraps of meat thrown into the African Leopard's
enclosure. But instead of pouncing on the tiny intruder, the
12-year-old leopard, called Sheena, appeared to be afraid of the daring mouse and kept her distance. At one stage she tried to nudge the
mouse away with her nose, but the determined little guy carried on chewing away until he was full.
Excuse me? A perturbed Sheena the leopard looks on as a cheeky mouse nibbles her food at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
The extraordinary scene was captured by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
The 19-year-old, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who was photographing the leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse's behavior.
He said: 'I have no idea where the mouse came from - he just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard.
'He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself.
'But the leopard was pretty surprised - she bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared.
'In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened.
...but even a gentle shove does not deter the little creature from getting his fill...
'It was amazing; even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked and said he'd never seen anything like it before.'
Project owner Jackie James added: 'It was so funny to see - Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food.
'But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on.'
Sheena was brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old.
She is one of 14 big cats in the private collection started by Jackie's late husband Peter in 1989.
This mouse danced with death when it tucked itself into the lunch
of a hungry leopard. Like a little child and seemingly unaware of the beast towering over it,
the mischievous rodent grabbed at scraps of meat thrown into the African Leopard's
enclosure. But instead of pouncing on the tiny intruder, the
12-year-old leopard, called Sheena, appeared to be afraid of the daring mouse and kept her distance. At one stage she tried to nudge the
mouse away with her nose, but the determined little guy carried on chewing away until he was full.
Excuse me? A perturbed Sheena the leopard looks on as a cheeky mouse nibbles her food at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.The extraordinary scene was captured by photography student Casey Gutteridge at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire.
The 19-year-old, from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who was photographing the leopard for a course project, was astounded by the mouse's behavior.
He said: 'I have no idea where the mouse came from - he just appeared in the enclosure after the keeper had dropped in the meat for the leopard.
'He didn't take any notice of the leopard, just went straight over to the meat and started feeding himself.
'But the leopard was pretty surprised - she bent down and sniffed the mouse and flinched a bit like she was scared.
'In the meantime the mouse just carried on eating like nothing had happened.
...but even a gentle shove does not deter the little creature from getting his fill...
'It was amazing; even the keeper who had thrown the meat into the enclosure was shocked and said he'd never seen anything like it before.'
Project owner Jackie James added: 'It was so funny to see - Sheena batted the mouse a couple of times to try to get it away from her food.
'But the determined little thing took no notice and just carried on.'
Sheena was brought in to the Santago Rare Leopard Project from a UK zoo when she was just four months old.
She is one of 14 big cats in the private collection started by Jackie's late husband Peter in 1989.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
A punch that feels like a .22 calibre?
A shrimp guards her eggs in this close-up underwater photograph.
But the bright colours of the peacock mantis mask a fearsome defence -
a punch that feels like being shot by a .22 calibre pistol, and has been known to crack glass in aquariums
Thursday, January 14, 2010
All that powder and no one is skiing?
Granite cam @ Red Mountain Resort - Home of the Steep and Deep
[the best skiing in the world in Fran's opinion]
Don't eat me!
A costumed man sharpens a knife along a street during a carnival in southwestern Macedonia's village of Vevcani.
The carnival is always held on St. Vasilij's day, which marks the beginning in the New Year by the Julian calendar.
The masks usually represent pagan rituals, Biblical issues and political satire.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
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