Total lunar exlipse with Mars nearby - 27th July 2018

Today we could observe a special total lunar eclipse.

The moon rises up while the sun goes down. That's why the moon rises in a dark red colour.

Find a place with a view down South-east at 21:30 CEST

waiting for the red moon to rise during dusk 22:00 CEST

& a plane passed by.

 the moon at night

 Mars

 Moon and Mars

at 22:34 the ISS crossed the sky from west to east

at 23:10 CEST the moon started leaving the shaddow of the earth

Moon and Mars

I reduced the exposure time dramatically from 15 sec. to 1/160 sec.

at 00:17 CEST the dance of the moon, the earth and the sun was over

Finished 27th July 2018

1000 Pieces

Salamanders

(c)2000 by Ogdemli/Feldman Design/Rosenthal Represents.

A Piatnik jigsaw puzzle made in Austria

Excellent quality and print!

Green iguana

Panther chameleon

red salamander

 

Tokay gecko

Gila monster

marbled newt (?)

Sand lizard (?)

Assembled during a marathon with 11 hours

Finished 22nd July 2018 - by my husband

1000 Pieces

Adoration of the magi by Pieter Brueghel the younger

Adaption of an older painting by Pieter Brueghel the elder

A very special Wentworth Wooden jigsaw puzzle with more than 35 whimsies!

Assembled from 16th > 22nd July 2018

Finished 21st July 2018

1000 Pieces

Leopard

by James Hautman

Kosmos jigsaw puzzle, Germany, 2006

Development process of a "Leopard" (1000pcs.) - updated 21st July

On 14th July - french national holiday - I started assembling

this wonderful and impressive portrait of a leopard by James Hautman

The manufacturer is KOSMOS, a traditional german producer of onlinegaming, 

tablegames, books and experiment-boxes for small scientists.

The jigsaw puzzle is dated 2006 - it was still wrapped in its original foil.

I was a bit afraid of the huge black parts in the background, but there was no reason to be shy:

the pieces fit together doubtlessly and smooth. While France played soccer against 

Croatia, I started assembling the frame

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Toutes mes félicitations à l'Équipe Tricolore! 

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Then I started assorting the stalks, the outline of the leopard and the whiskers:

completed :-)

Finished 13th July 2018

 40 Pieces

Holly - by Bigstock

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Ivy - by Bigstock

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Confusion at the Edge - Lyndsey Selley (2008)

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Sailing Race - Brian Pollard

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Elephant Gate, Zoo, Berlin - Manfred Brückels

slightly damadged

I already assembled it before with 250 pcs.

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 Dickens' Dream - Robert William Buss

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Hamburg, Speicherstadt - Pixelio, smitty-hh, 2007

 "Speicherstadt" means storehouse-town, but refers not to a separate 'town' but to a part of the city where the importers and shipping magnates had their storehouses.

40 Pieces

Easter Chick - Maja P., 2010 (Pitopia)

 

Assembled by my husband: