Week 39 - Daily Picture Themes (2023)

September 25th to October 1st

Monday - #Sleeping

Death is often described as sleep or rest. This gravestone in Mason, New Hampshire caught my eye with its depiction of a sleeping child.

https://flic.kr/p/gzBtSj Endless sleep

Tuesday - #Curve

In July of 2010 we attended a Chris Isaak concert at the curvy Leader Bank Pavilion. On the way I noticed a curvy office building. Not what you expect in a city of boxes and rectangles.

https://flic.kr/p/avqiSD Leader Bank Pavilion - July 17, 2010https://flic.kr/p/2ikp42P Boston, MA - July 17, 2010

Wednesday - #Hard

Hardened Steel

These metal cutting tools were hand forged, heat treated and ground by Arthur L. Currier, who operated a over-head belt drive machine shop in Bank Village (New Ipswich) from the 1920's until his death in 1951. These tools were used on machine tools such as shapers, planers and lathes to cut steel and other metals. Arthur held at least seventeen patents issued between 1911 and 1932, for many types of inventions. Some of his inventions were for: cutting buttons from shells or other materials, sewing closed multilayered paper bags (like cement bags), Trimming fiber phonograph needles, wiring closed mail bags, dressing grinding wheels, sewing buttons to cards, cutting lock key blanks, and sewing buttons to fabric. Arthur was also a meticulous draftsman, and always worked in a white shirt. Arthur could build wooden patterns for castings, and create any type of intricate machinery. Arthur's son Bill ran the machine shop in the 50's and 60's to service the ski tow and lift industry. Bill operated much of his father's machinery to create sheaves, pulleys and other mechanisms for the ski industry. Bill served on many town committees as selectman, firefighter and deputy forest fire warden. Albert William (Bill) Currier was born in 1918 and died in 2008. (John Rosenfelder, Historical Society-  Sep 2023)

https://flic.kr/p/2p2o5jA Metal Cutting Tools - September 8, 2023

Thursday - #Cut

There is an expression, "fish or cut bait" that came this day when my wife asked questions on a charter fishing boat.

https://flic.kr/p/2imCavx

Friday - #Storage

File Under So. Co., Waiting for... is a public art installation in Burlington, Vermont. Built in 2002 by Bren Alvarez, the concept and name symbolize the delay in building the Southern Connector ("So. Co.", a proposed northward extension of the I-189 to downtown Burlington). The filing cabinet is over 40 ft tall and was created by welding standard filing cabinets together over a year, with a steel rod inside keeping it upright. The 38 drawers in the cabinet symbolized the years since the Southern Connector was first proposed in 1965. Birds have been known to nest in the upper drawers. (Wikipedia entry)

https://flic.kr/p/2imiZ31 Burlington, VT - May 28, 2006

Saturday - #Half

Cutting oranges in half for the Baltimore Orioles. They pick it clean but the mold comes quickly in summer when this photo was taken.

https://flic.kr/p/2m7HCGA New Ipswich, NH - June 23, 2021

Sunday - #Chilled

Birds fluff up their feathers to conserve body heat in subzero weather.

https://flic.kr/p/2ofjXCS Tufted titmouse - February 4, 2023https://flic.kr/p/2ofeNtJ Tufted titmouse - February 4, 2023