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Posted by kimby on Mar 1, 2011, 10:06pm
Decrepitude made beautiful, K2.
Posted by thill25 on Mar 2, 2011, 2:26pm
Great thread! Some very nice pics in here...
Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 6, 2011, 7:23pm
completely accidental feathers

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Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2011, 4:31am
Interesting & different picture, Kerouac.

I just went through this entire thread from the beginning. It's full of wonderful images. The last one on page four, #119, apparently got completely overlooked when the thread went to the next page. Go see -- it's fabulous!

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Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2011, 6:59pm
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Posted by kimby on Mar 24, 2011, 8:08pm
Did people cluck their tongues as they walked by and saw you photographing this poor unfortunate, K2?
Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2011, 8:24pm
No witnesses. Unfortunate? This is a Parisian! This is on the Champs Elysées! Aren't all Parisians fortunate?
Posted by kimby on Mar 24, 2011, 8:28pm
Was he barefoot all winter? Does HE feel fortunate to be a Parisian?
At least, if he gets hungry, the garbage cans behind the restaurants probably hold better discards than the trash cans in other locales...
Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 24, 2011, 8:33pm
He had moon boots under the bench.

However, there is a filthy, really disgusting barefoot bum who lives on the Champs Elysées. He even walks around barefoot in the snow. This winter I saw a poor naive tourist give him a new set of sneakers and a jacket, which he had obviously just bought for the occasion to multiply his karma. The very next day, the bum was barefoot again, out of choice. No jacket either. He either threw away the sneakers or sold them -- who knows?

I saw him the day before yesterday, totally black with filth as usual. He seems happy.
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011, 7:33am


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Posted by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011, 4:53pm
MARMITE!! And not one but two jars. I've gone right off you Cheery.
And peanut butter, tut tut.

What's the little yellow jar to the left? Lemon curd?
And you have Carnation?
Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2011, 4:56pm
The two jars is the first thing I noticed, too. I also know now who buys tinned potatoes. ;)
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011, 6:14pm
In my defence the marmite and peanut butter are for OH and son (I can't stand the stuff)...and the tinned taters have been in the cupboard for over a year (got them in for son when OH and I went away for a holiday)....I'm not a baaaaad person really....and I wear groovy socks. :)
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011, 6:16pm
Lemon curd is for the cakes I made for comic relief, as are the rest of the cherries and the icing sugar....ran out of room on the 'baking products' shelf.....(damn but you've got good eyesight Mark!) and OH is the Carnation addict....
Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 27, 2011, 6:19pm
No worries, Cheery -- I have some grim inmentionables in my cupboards as well, and I can't even claim that they were bought for other people. I think I might have a jar of peanut butter that is more than 10 years old.
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011, 6:26pm
ew...mind you...it may have fermented into something vaguely hallucinogenic by now.....
Posted by onlymark on Mar 27, 2011, 7:12pm
I haven't got good eyesight. It's Ctrl ++ that does it.
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Mar 27, 2011, 7:42pm
well you learn sommat new every day..... ;D
Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2011, 7:28am
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Posted by tod2 on Jun 19, 2011, 7:50am
Oh WoW! I'm lost for words..those are so beautifully detailed and a feast for the eye - More Bixa please!
Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 19, 2011, 10:43am
Great photos. I did not know that plants could grow wood shavings directly!
Posted by kerouac2 on Jul 15, 2011, 8:31pm
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Posted by kimby on Jul 16, 2011, 1:42pm
and a snoitcelfer, too!
Posted by cheerypeabrain on Jul 17, 2011, 5:45pm
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Posted by kimby on Jul 17, 2011, 7:26pm
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a detail of this:
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Posted by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2011, 8:18pm
Oh, belated thanks for the kind comments above!

These are amazing pictures. I like how the visual surprise is hiding in plain sight in Kerouac's, the delicate coloration and extreme contrasts of texture in Cheery's, and the wonderful forms in Kimby's. Kimby, you even managed to capture the sparkle just right -- hard to do! The spoiler pics are great too.
Posted by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2011, 8:19pm
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Posted by kerouac2 on Jul 17, 2011, 8:20pm
The spheres of water are exceptional!
Posted by kimby on Jul 17, 2011, 8:25pm
what K2 said!
Posted by kimby on Jul 17, 2011, 10:05pm
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The inside of the bark from a beetle-killed tree. The tunnels caused by the larvae eating their way through the cambium layer "girdle" the tree, starving it of water and nutrients, and it dies.[/spoiler]

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