Delicate Ice Feathers:
Prison fence barbed ice:
The distant trees, as seen through Jack Frosts' forest:
I'm going off-topic, even for an off-topic thread
One of the fun things about buying stuff at auction is figuring out what it is or was.
This weekend's examples include:
a mid-century English cake plate (Radford violets fluted-$1), and
a dresser/sideboard($30) is truly of the correct age to be a wedding gift from Al Capone.
Last weekend we bought this...
The translucent hand-painted glass appears antique. The metal plate is fixed (a part of the hinge mechanism.)
The standard (XL) egg is there for a size comparison.
Anyone have a clue what this is or used to be?
Every time I look at this, the first thought that comes in is an old men's shaving brush holder. But I know that can't be it, it's too feminine in the design? I can't think of anything to call it in order to do a search.
Is it top heavy? When you open the top, does it want to try to fall over?
It's pretty.
The season in New Orleans... why, Mardi Gras season of course!
Random sights along the daily travels....
Floats awaiting transportation parked here and there on the side streets of the community. Perhaps staging.... perhaps a broken tractor during transport. It's a pretty common sight.
Constant rolls of tractors here and there. These are off to pick up some floats somewhere and drag them somewhere else. Another very common sight.
The tractors are the tradition locomotion for all floats. They replaced the mules. You see the tractors all decorated during the parades. Most of the tractors are old, so they kinda break down frequently leading to large delays in big parades as a replacement is brought up from the rear thru the crowds and the old one is pushed off and replaced.
The season in New Orleans... why, Mardi Gras season of course!
Random sights along the daily travels....
Floats awaiting transportation parked here and there on the side streets of the community. Perhaps staging.... perhaps a broken tractor during transport. It's a pretty common sight.
Constant rolls of tractors here and there. These are off to pick up some floats somewhere and drag them somewhere else. Another very common sight.
The tractors are the tradition locomotion for all floats. They replaced the mules. You see the tractors all decorated during the parades. Most of the tractors are old, so they kinda break down frequently leading to large delays in big parades as a replacement is brought up from the rear thru the crowds and the old one is pushed off and replaced.
Nice Tead! What's your temperature there today? I've got 55 degrees and Sunny just past noon here. Feels much warmer than that, I was outside for an hour or so with no jacket on.
Some of my Lily's are sprouting already, and the onions are green topped:
I went to check on the Wisteria seed pods and found that a squirrel had ripped one down and ate the seed out of it. You can see the scrapes from the teeth. I collected the rest of them, they are still a bit velvety but they sound hollow when I bump them together. I figured I better get them before the critters do. I'll let them dry out in a basket on the porch.
And yepper.....I've got a big critter using the same hole under the pond deck walkway. It's clean of fall/winter debris, so it's being used regularly:
Ice skating anyone?..although, I would stay away from the north end..there's open water there.
