Image/Photo Thread Of Any Images You Would Like To Share....

[giradman]

Susan & I are on Hilton Head Island (South Carolina) near Savannah, Georgia - spending 5 nights @ the Omni Resort shown below - have a nice oceanfront room - lots of great seafood, including oysters daily (so far) - planning a lot of interesting excursions - will put together a travelogue on our return home once I can get on my trusty Macbook Pro - now on the iPad w/ my BT KB - Dave
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[J. A.]

This was a lesson my students enjoyed today

The father of one of my students was the driver.

 

[scifan57]

Construction at the new football stadium in Regina.

 

[The OB]

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Looks like that stadium is going to be a good one sci. Adelaide's new football/cricket stadium was completed recently. Here's a pic of the front entrance I took during a trip into town recently.

They also built a new $40 million footbridge across the River Torrens to enable crowds to easily access the stadium from the CBD. Here are two pics of the bridge. The last one looking back to the CBD from the stadium.

I haven't been inside yet. Will do next cricket season.
Andrew

 

[The OB]

This was a lesson my students enjoyed today
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The father of one of my students was the driver.

Interesting pictures Johanna! Did the students sit at the desk while being towed around town?
Andrew

 

[scifan57]

Looks like that stadium is going to be a good one sci. Adelaide's new football/cricket stadium was completed recently. Here's a pic of the front entrance I took during a trip into town recently.
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They also built a new $40 million footbridge across the River Torrens to enable crowds to easily access the stadium from the CBD. Here are two pics of the bridge. The last one looking back to the CBD from the stadium.
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I haven't been inside yet. Will do next cricket season.
Andrew

Those are nice pictures of the new cricket stadium and bridge. I really like that curved bridge. The new stadium in Regina will also have a similar cover over the seating area.

P. S. , why not take a stadium tour of the new cricket stadium. That way you don't have to wait for the new season?

 

[The OB]

Those are nice pictures of the new cricket stadium and bridge. I really like that curved bridge. The new stadium in Regina will also have a similar cover over the seating area.

P. S. , why not take a stadium tour of the new cricket stadium. That way you don't have to wait for the new season?

Good idea sci, but there's nothing like hearing the crack of a leather-covered cricket ball against a willow bat when you are there.
We call it "the oval"; here's a pidgeon's view of it:

Shows the cricket pitch and the seating. Your stadium looks to be bigger when finished.
I took a few more more pics on my brief walk that day about two weeks ago. I'll post some more pics of that when I find the time in between doing some house renovation painting and getting over some inherent problems of laziness
Andrew

 

[J. A.]

Interesting pictures Johanna! Did the students sit at the desk while being towed around town?
Andrew

They did.
There were a few tasks they had to get done.

 

[J. A.]

The lilacs of one of my neighbours

Taken with my iPhone

 

[scifan57]

The lilacs of one of my neighbours
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Taken with my iPhone

Nice photo, Johanna, you'll have to post another when the blooms open.

 

[J. A.]

Nice photo, Johanna, you'll have to post another when the bloome open.

I'll take pictures, if possible.

 

[J. A.]

There's a small apple tree in my backyard. It isn't higher than 2 meters. The tree was a farewell gift from students of mine five years ago, when they left my school. (They certainly didn't know about my brown thumb.)
It's still alive, though, and at the moment, it's blooming.

iPhone pictures

 

[scifan57]

There's a small apple tree in my backyard. It isn't higher than 2 meters. The tree was a farewell gift from students of mine five years ago, when they left my school. (They certainly didn't know about my brown thumb.)
It's still alive, though, and at the moment, it's blooming.
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iPhone pictures

Brown thumb or not, the tree is thriving and should bring you a nice apple crop.

 

[J. A.]

Brown thumb or not, the tree is thriving and should bring you a nice apple crop.

I do hope you're right. I like apples.

 

[giradman]

Well, just returned from our trip to Hilton Head Island - we were there on my birthday and actually the very day were shopping in the art district of the small historic town of Bluffton, SC on the mainland just a half hour drive from the Omni Resort shown in my previous post.

So as a 'birthday present', we purchased a small wooden vase (first two pics below) - this is an example of segmented woodworking (check HERE), i.e. pieces of wood (these are varied, combined, and often exotic varieties) are glued together and layered; then, often turned on a lathe to make a vase - bowls, boxes, etc. can also be constructed - a couple of more examples are shown in the next two images from the web - the larger & more intricate pieces are usually quite expensive.

In my vase, the two woods used are figured bubinga & buckeye burl - the last two images are solid body guitars made from these two woods - now, I'm an amateur woodworker and have quite a nice workshop but decided not to add a lathe to my equipment list - I've been 'eyeing' these segmented bowls & vases for a number of years, but this is our first purchase. Dave
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