Keep Out!

You Can’t Chain Me From Nature

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature,

he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

~John Muir

This post is linked with:
Weekend in Black and White
Black and White Wednesdays

I Did It ~ Water Droplets Mid-Air

Bidet~Urinal~Water Fountain/Hand Pump

The more I look at this the funnier it gets....is it a bidet, urinal, or water fountain?  To me it looks like all three though the shape is a bit odd for the first two. Actually this is the old hand operated water spicket at Bear Town State Park in West Virginia. Trust me...I would not drink out of it for anything. The exciting thing about this shot for me is I FINALLY captured water droplets asthey were flying through the air. Wish they had great reflections in them 

like so many of yours do, but this makes me happy. Right now I am having a problem with Blogger where it will not allow me to change the alignment to the of the script left instead of center. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks to y'all  for all the help you have been giving me while taking the eCourse. I really do appreciate your comments and helpful words of advice. 

This post is linked with Macro Monday.

Library in Black and White

Last week many of you were curious to know what this image was that I posted for "Weekend in Black and White.”  Well, here is your answer. It’s the grate allowing the heat from the furnace to rise and warm the room during winter. I thought it looked interesting taken from such a slanted angle.

A typical shelf of books in our school library.

Here you can see the book shelf, the heat grate above the books, and one of many windows which run the length of the room.

Here is a close up of the grate back against the window.

This shot shows the radiator grate running the length of the shelf above the books with all of the windows and shades.

This post is linked with “Weekend in Black and White."

Lots of LIttle Squares

This post is linked with "The Weekend in Black and White.”

More of Genie’s Love for Mechanical Parts

SOOC

If you haven’t figured it out yet, I am ALWAYS looking for old bits and pieces of machinery and mundane odds and ends that do big jobs. My students had to explain to me that the last one was of an old concrete mixer. Am assuming they are correct. It sounds reasonable to me. What those gears go on I do not have a clue other that it has to be one big piece of machinery.

My final contribution this week is a bit out of the ordinary. My “cellblock” is next to the boy’s restroom so each afternoon we go in to check for typical middle student foul writings on the stalls. I have to check the carrels in my room, too. Well, I just couldn’t resist the urge to take a shot of the urinals. The place was very clean. Actually, I think they turned out pretty cool all lined up along the wall. It was a good afternoon. I got a good picture, the stalls, and all the urinals were clean. No creative writing.

This post is linked with "The Weekend in Black and White.”

More of Genie’s Mundane Macros

More of Genie’s Mundane

Lots of Repetition

Super Shot Macro

This post is linked with:

Macro Monday
I Heart Macro

Flickr’s Macro Monochrome

Canon Chain @ Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA

Just some more of the “mundane” that did such an important job. 

This post is linked with "Weekend in Black and White."

Sanitary Sewer Lid at Woods Creek

FYI: I published this earlier today, and then I did something and the post self destructed comments and all. What a bummer. I refuse to accept defeat, so I am posting it again!

Sanitary Sewer Lid

I cannot figure out what is sanitary about a sewer. Any suggestions?

This post is linked with the following memes:

Likechristmaseveryday ~ Black and White Wednesday

Me As A Mother ~ Black and White Wednesday

It’s Tiller Time on the Creek

Buddy does not like to use modern equipment...uses an old $80.00 push mower, drives an old Ford stick shift truck without electric anything, washes dishes by hand, uses this old timey tiller for our gardens, and the list goes on. He is happy so I am happy, and they all work. These shots were taken during our March snow a few weeks back so it is cleaned up and ready to go.

This post is linked with the following memes:

"Black and White Christmas at Like Christmas Everyday" 

"Black and White Wednesday at With Me As A Mother"

"Weekend in Black and White”

“SOOC”

Thirst Quencher

Water Fountain at Hopkin’s Green ~ Lexington, Virginia

This post is linked with "Macro Monday."

Just Another Bit of Chain

Small Ovals Doing Big Jobs

This post is linked with “The Weekend in Black and White,”

and "Macro Monday."

I’ve Got a Hammer

I am posting early because Bud and I + Gene, Patti, and my 6 year old Eloise are off to celebrate the old 73rd birthday (actually Feb. 7) at Douthat State Park. This is an annual pilgrimage we make for my birthday. Will get caught up on Sunday night when I get back home.

Just another of my relatively small and mundane 

objects that does a very big job for me.

(This reminds me of Peter, Paul, and Mary singing “I’ve Got a Hammer.”)

This post is linked with The Weekend in Black and White, Shadow Shot Sunday 2, and {simple things} Sunday, and Macro Monday.

Round and Round It Goes

This post is linked with I Heart Macro, and Macro Monday, 

Gears and Pedals

Gears and Pedal on Bud’s Yellow Bike
More of small things that do the big jobs.

This post is linked with Macro Monday.

Friends Just Hangin’ out on New Year’s Day 2012

This post is linked with: 

Macro Monochrome, Macro Monday, I Heart Macro.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012