Series "B" - Beekeeping

 

Part 1 - "Hives and Bees"

You find the oddest things when you're slide collecting.

Bonus -  The Story Behind the Photoshoot of David Bowie and Twiggy for the Cover of “Pin Ups” Album in 1973

Panda Preserves

 

A bit of a dichotomy - Tedious Tuesday and Pandas, natures evolutionary mistake.

More precisely, a slide from a commercial set of slides labelled "Pandas and their World." And this was the most tedious slide.

Bonus - The Whale That’s Known Only by the Sound of Its Voice

Bonus 2 - Naturally, my first thought on seeing Preserves of the Giant Panda was 

Giant Panda Jam

Black Friday Sale

 

Some will say that it's another meaningless import from America. The USA doesn't do Thanksgiving, so the "Hit The Sales" event on the day after makes no sense.

But, here we have a Church Ladies Black Friday Event from November 1969. And a cornucopia of knitted shite.

Bonus - The problems of a Big Butt.

Shapes In Nature - The Snail.

 

It's a shape

It's natural.

I guess it is a shape in nature. Fine.

I could carry on with this sequence of slides, but I sense that boredom is creeping thru' the millions and millions of BlogReaders here.

Bonus - (Some) People deserve to be punched.  ‘It disgusts me’: how a wealthy couple lied to get a vaccine meant for Indigenous people

Bonus 2 - 

Shapes In Nature - The Pine Cone

 

Interesting fact. Ancient Vietnamese morticians used pine cones to prevent rectal seepage during the Lying-In-State of recently deceased royalty.

Bonus 1 - It's a pine cone 

Bonus 2  - In tribute to Major Tom 

Shapes In Nature - The Starfish

 

Yes, you may have been worrying over what today's shape would be, and the team who chose Star were right.

Not your common or garden five armed starfish, this is the more unusual Alpine Starfish with eleven arms.  Nice.

Bonus - 

Shapes in Nature

 

This week, my loyal blog-followers, we shall mainly be appreciating some slides from the Shape In Nature set. Won't that be fun?

We start with a cobweb. You probably know that cobwebs are made of spider silk, and that is 132 times stronger than titanium. But did you know that cobwebs taste of candy-floss?  Taste one and see.

Bonus -