Random Picture Thread

Gotta love the blue ****. I saw a heron just like that one this morning while walking the Peanut.

 

This is a male Bearded Tit, in the reeds at the waterfront, in the Oare Marshes Nature Reserve in Kent, England, 6 October 2013 at 10:34 . . .

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Cute.

 

Animating is fun.

 

I'm afraid you have new hobby there, please the next time a bit more peaceful colors for the moving hat that dominates the center . . .

Damn Geeky​

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BTW, that's not a mirror, but a phone, for taking selfies . . . ​

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P.S. - - Oops, now we all know who was in the boat with Hoyt . . . .

 

Phone hat would make a good radar reflector?

 

Gosh, turn your back on this thread for a moment and off it goes of its own accord... Thanks for the posts, Angel, and the enlargements -much clearer. Yep, I think you're bang on with the sharpening wheel - possibly has a fence/tool rest across the top. Not so sure about the hair though... It does look to me like its rendered like fabric, with wrinkles in, and a deep shadow underneath it. I wouldn't like to call whether its a man or a woman; if its a woman, then at this time they might have been covering their hair as an act of modesty; perhaps its in two parts and she's taken the cap part off. Perhaps its to protect the neck from the sun; but there seems to be a collar on the shirt, and not much bare neck, and they are sitting in the shade. Perhaps a covering to keep tar off the hair when doing the actual caulking; (we see cauldrons of hot tar, tar tools, mops, and a caulking hammer by the adzes) and some of the joints on the boat are already done. But how likely are you to have your head under the molten tar? I see a baby toddling off into the woods; might that suggest its their mum with the oakum? the waistcoat looks to be heavy duty, possibly leather...
The chap in the background looks to be adzing some timbers for the next barge.

Hey ho. Its interesting to speculate!

 

Sorry, the thread moved on without me... Thanks Moderator for fixing that. I did try rotating the image after it failed to upload correctly the first time but it came out the same. Next time!

 

The pitch or tar pot is boiling and there is a ladle on ground. The seams look as if they have been tarred after caulking. Maybe it's a hat with a hair cover, it'd be a right bummer to get hot tar in your hair.

 

Again sorry! that was already said!

 

Hands Across The Sea Samplers → Blog → Parfilage and Oakum Picking ↓ (Definition of Parfilage in English)​

April 22, 2016 by Nicola: - The great and the good <scroll down> → The unfortunate and the bad <see text and pics there>​

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Last picture I'll guess is from Charles Dickens’ 1837 - 1839 novel Oliver Twist 2005 film → YouTube video 2:09:59​

( Oliver Twist 1948 film → YouTube video 1:55:54 )​

 

Yes it is, from - 0:04:03 - to - 0:05:018 - there's - 1 min - 15 sec - oakum picking by orphaned children in the film.

 

Money for old rope....

 

I did not realise before that the word Canvas is a corruption of Kannabis.

cannabis (n.)
1798, "common hemp," from Cannabis, Modern Latin plant genus named (1728), from Greek kannabis "hemp," a Scythian or Thracian word. Also source of Armenian kanap', Albanian kanep, Russian konoplja, Persian kanab, Lithuanian kanapes "hemp," and English canvas and possibly hemp. In reference to use of the plant parts as an intoxicant, from 1848. Related: Cannabic.
cannabis | Origin and meaning of cannabis by Online Etymology Dictionary https://www.etymonline.com/word/cannabis

 

Interesting, Nick; I didn't know that either.

I did find a history of women's head coverings, but unfortunately it isn't particularly enlightening with respect to the caulking person in the picture.
Ah well. It would be a shame if nothing remained a mystery!

Head Covering Through the Centuries | Page 1 of 1 https://www.scrollpublishing.com/store/head-covering-history.html