Timothy Power's Blog, page 28

Bunny bling

Presenting the world’s most expensive chocolate bunny! It can be yours, if around $50,000 is in your chocolate-bunny-buying price range. Made from super-fancy Tanzania Origin chocolate, this rarefied rabbit is fifteen inches tall and features gold-leaf Easter eggs and 1.7 carat solitaire diamond eyes. Feast your eyes, if not your taste buds, on this brilliant bun-bun!

As for me, my price range and common sense leads to this old favorite. BBE’s eyes aren’t diamonds, but they’re so much cuter.

Say cheese, quokka!

Quokkas are marsupials about the size of a house cat. Quokkas are natural smilers. Quokkas are not camera shy. Australians are cozying up to quokkas in record numbers lately for selfies. Turn that frown upside down down under and snap a quokka today!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Points to ponder

How many times have you used a crummy pencil sharpener, only to have the lead of your pencil break off again and again? Russian artist Salavat Fidai sharpens his pencils by hand and sculpts the lead while he’s at it.
Behold, his Number Two Dark Knight!

And his graphite Lord Vader.

Salavat has an Etsy store, if you’d like to keep a piece of his art in your pencil cup. Also, keep a magnifying glass handy.

Tiny majesty

When we think of beach sand, most of us think of this.

Photo found at the Banzai Surf School.

Nice! But nothing special.
But microscope photographer Dr. Gary Greenberg knows what beach sand REALLY looks like. This!

Pictured below, a collection of magnified beach sand from Maui, Hawaii resembles booty from a pirate’s treasure chest.

Sand grains from Okinawa, Japan include starry skeletons of single-celled foraminifera.

And these microscopic shells once housed microscopic snails.

So the next time you see a sand castle, remember, it’s a trove of microscopic riches!

 

Knitwear in nature

These fashionable penguins in Australia’s Phillip Island are wearing jumpers hand-knitted by 109-year-old Alfie Date from New South Wales.

Alfie Date learned to knit in 1932. After an oil spill, Phillip Island’s Penguin Foundation put out the call for knitted jumpers to help prevent the pengies from swallowing the oil when they cleaned themselves, and to help keep them dry.
Alfie got right on it, and with style. These pengies know they’re runway ready!

Winter wonderland

Building a snow slide in the backyard is a no-brainer when the white stuff piles up.

This one is impressive. But one made of ice is even better!

Oh, and that building in the background? ALSO BUILT OF ICE.
Welcome to the Ice Festival in Harbin, China, where frozen treats include an international snow sculpture art expo, an ice lantern art fair, winter swimming, chilly stays in ice hotels, dog sledding, ice skating, skiing, snowmobiling and romantic sleigh rides.

If there’s anyplace outside Arendelle that you might find yourself rubbing frozen shoulders with Queen Elsa, this is it.

(Photos found at Distractify)

Happy New Year!

It’s brand new…
It’s never been seen before…
2015 is here!
No need to save the wrapping! Just open it up and have the best year ever.

Holiday blessings

Share the love.
Spread the wealth.
Keep on truckin’.

Holiday noms

Like almost everyone I know (and probably almost everyone I don’t know), holiday food is something I especially celebrate this time of year. Holding a special place among my favorites are…
Chocolate, whether wrapped in gold…

Or tree shaped.

And fruity rugelach…

And sugar cookies…

And perhaps my most favorite of all, at any time of year…
Potato latkes and applesauce!

Start celebrating and tuck in to your favorite holiday treat today!