Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

You know your design has failed when the cafe owner decided it’s better to install a hand-operated soap dispenser than to rely on the built-in one in your multi-function faucet.

I hate these faucets. They started showing up at Starbucks a few years ago and they are genuinely awful.

#designFail

Walking through the damp woods, we spotted this unique shaped very large #mushroom on a wet dead tree. I had no idea what kind it was and after days of searching for what it could be I finally had to ask a friend who is an Interpretive Naturalist. After a couple days of searching he had finally narrowed it down to a #BlushingRosette as they come in many shapes.
Blushing Rosette Mushroom here
https://debbie-oppermann.pixels.com/featured/blushing-rosette-mushroom-debbie-oppermann.html
#FungusFriday #FungiFriday #BuyIntoArt #nature #fungus #artwork #NatureLover

Sometimes on my travels around Glasgow, I come across truly random things, like a cassette of Dionne Warwick's Heartbreaker from 1982 hanging on a twig beside a path in the Botanic Gardens!

#glasgow #cassettetapes #dionnewarwick #glasgowbotanicgardens #randomthings #peoplemakeglasgow

Hexagonal symmetry #MathArt #MathsArt #MastoArt #Art #Geometry #Tiling

Hello there.
Mother and baby's first moments.
A while ago I drove a friend home from hospital after having a baby. The baby needed a fresh babygrow and I managed to get this eye to eye connection shot in the middle of the clothes change.
Sometimes just being there is enough 🙂

#Baby #Mother #Nature #Wildlife #Highland #Scotland #Photography #Welcome #Hello #Child #Daughter

#Fensterfreitag #windowfriday #AA #photography #urbanphotography #water #reflection #Berlin

So here’s a thing about #maplesugaring in #vermont (not to mention that three days after a blizzard it’s 46 degrees and raining):
You have to pay attention.
You have to keep moving. Like Lucille Ball at the conveyor (sorry young’uns).
If you don’t pay attention you burn the syrup. Or you lose the boil.
You keep moving by: getting more sap out of the holding containers; pouring it into the warming pans; getting wood; splitting wood; feeding fire; getting sap… Repeat. Repeat. Repeat….#photography

Street art in #Limerick, Ireland

#StreetArt #graffiti #painting #art #mural #octopus

This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Chasmosaurus

Discovered in Canada in 1898 by Lawrence Morris Lambe of the Geological Society of Canada. He named Monoclonius belli.

In 1913, Charles Hazelius Sternberg and his sons found several complete skulls. They tried to reclassify it as Protorosaurus, but that name was used by a Permian reptile.
Forced to rename it again, they settled on Chasmosaurus, meaning "Opening" "Lizard".

Just an opportunistic, fun, single shot on my way to birding, as the moon was setting in the morning. That’s a big bird alright.😉

#moon #airplane #BuyIntoArt #Spring #PhotoFriday #PhotoOfTheDay #MastoArt #Mastodon #ArtReference #Seattle #Washington #PNW

https://pixels.com/featured/take-me-to-the-moon-ez-lorenz-imagery.html

So here’s a thing about #maplesugaring The sap has curious properties. As you boil it down, it produces a mineral type material called niter; it tastes like an old sock, which is why we filter the syrup three times.
It also spoils; think milk. So cold temperature storage works.
Water in the sap freezes first, so if the sap freezes in storage, outside in, you take the ice out, and you have sap already concentrated. Boiling is shorter.
Cool, no?

If you are planning to visit India for the first time, or as a repeat traveler, I hope my expanded travel blog helps you explore -- from the local culture to its diverse flora and fauna to its holy places and pilgrimage sites

https://cascoly-images.com/experience-india/

#theArtDistrict #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Art #ArtMatters #MastoArt
#SpringIntoArt
#travel #travelart #travelphotography #asia #india

Happy St. Patrick's Day #Sláinte 🇮🇪🍻☘️

Climate strike week 239. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #TomorrowIsTooLate #StopEACOP

Ingenious, Indigenous cartography: The Tunumiit (Eastern Greenlandic Inuit) practice of carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark.

A herd of wild goats are pictured crossing natural sea arch against an evening sky on an island in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork. Beth Cradick is the photographer

Last night we gave 64 people a quick 1.5 hour “learn to curl” (two separate sessions of 32 each) in preparation for the #HowardCenter #Rotary #DragonHeartVT 🥌 #Curling 🥌 Challenge on Saturday (March 18) at the Cairns arena in South Burlington, #Vermont. Tonight we’ll do it again for another 64 people! And then they’ll all play in games on Saturday.

Almost everyone had NOT curled before, so it was fun to see their excitement!

And the common refrain: “This is SO much harder than it looks!” 🤣

A lovely way to start the day, great work and a pleasure having you both in!
Thanks again.

www.scottishblacksmith.co.uk
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