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- Knnn
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Your Favorite Photos
Just looking for ways to pass the time
Here's a couple I took recently, anyone have some to add?
Here's a couple I took recently, anyone have some to add?
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- Knnn
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Barrie, That is great scenery, and even better to have it right outside your door
Steve
Steve
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Knnn (Steve) It's what realtors here call a peek-a-boo view when selling a home. Here's a more panoramic view just a quarter mile from my place. It's overlooking Georgia Strait towards the British Columbia mainland with about 30 miles of ocean between both land masses.
I'll have to look around for some of my favorite photos in keeping with this thread. Cheers, Barrie.
I'll have to look around for some of my favorite photos in keeping with this thread. Cheers, Barrie.
I hate to admit it but first we import the ice from the lower mainland. Ours does not freeze as clear and is harder to shape. The Castle is made from Edmonton Ice. There is also a maze, a 'working' 8' to 10' big screen TV, and a 15' tall slide.
The man that made the bugs bunny and the dragonfly on a plant takes a week's vacation every year to do this. Bugs is about 6' tall, 8' with the pedestal.
They use clothes irons to weld the blocks together and electric chain saws to rough shape it. Then a variety of hand tools and electric tools are used for detailed shaping. The smooth finish comes from either hair dryers or small propane torches.
Here is another sculpture that is a little harder to make out. It is life size and has 3 eskimo children tossing a 4th in the air using a blanket.
It is truly amazing what can be done with a lot of effort.
The winged warrioress has curly hair streaming back from her head at least 12" and, as is obvious to us dirty old men, implants.
Allen
The man that made the bugs bunny and the dragonfly on a plant takes a week's vacation every year to do this. Bugs is about 6' tall, 8' with the pedestal.
They use clothes irons to weld the blocks together and electric chain saws to rough shape it. Then a variety of hand tools and electric tools are used for detailed shaping. The smooth finish comes from either hair dryers or small propane torches.
Here is another sculpture that is a little harder to make out. It is life size and has 3 eskimo children tossing a 4th in the air using a blanket.
It is truly amazing what can be done with a lot of effort.
The winged warrioress has curly hair streaming back from her head at least 12" and, as is obvious to us dirty old men, implants.
Allen
You don't have to be crazy to grow palms in Alberta..... But it helps
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Allen, happily at our place.
Since then I've wanted to bring in an excavator , but resisted the urge.
You'd think with a university in these communit(ies) that there'd be a chance for the public to interract
with some of the departments, i.e. identifying rocks / or paleontology. Nada.
I called the university and the receptionist said "Do you know WHO you've called?"
Duh!
Barb
Since then I've wanted to bring in an excavator , but resisted the urge.
You'd think with a university in these communit(ies) that there'd be a chance for the public to interract
with some of the departments, i.e. identifying rocks / or paleontology. Nada.
I called the university and the receptionist said "Do you know WHO you've called?"
Duh!
Barb
Maybe she didn't remember who she worked for.
Obviously the university is there to educate those who pay and only to the extent that it fits into their plans.
Wish me luck. I am about to try to get information out of Agriculture Canada's Lethbridge Research Station at One Four about growing Yucca glauca Nuttal and Mamillaria vivipara which are unique to the area.
Allen
Obviously the university is there to educate those who pay and only to the extent that it fits into their plans.
Wish me luck. I am about to try to get information out of Agriculture Canada's Lethbridge Research Station at One Four about growing Yucca glauca Nuttal and Mamillaria vivipara which are unique to the area.
Allen
You don't have to be crazy to grow palms in Alberta..... But it helps
- Knnn
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Allen, It's always more enjoyable when the threads take whatever direction they choose
BTW ~ Great Photo!
Steve
BTW ~ Great Photo!
Steve
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I have a picture from my sister and brother in laws place in Morinville that looks just like that. You have to love those Alberta skies.
Great pic!
Great pic!
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