Photo Hunters: Tied
October 23, 2009 by Mrs. Mecomber
Filed under Photo Hunters
I came to realize just how casual we are here at the Mecomber homestead: I could find no photo of anyone wearing a tie! Oh well, here’s what I could find. I was fit to be tied for this theme this week!
We visited a library in Cazenovia last year, and they have a small science museum there. We saw many interesting artifacts, but the star of the show was a 2,000 year-old Wgyption mummy with his mummified cat! The mummy is still tied with the same bandages that enveloped him 2 millennia ago.
Here’s another oddity– wooden Eskimo snow goggles. Apparently, the Eskimos wore them on those super-bright snowy days. The leather straps were tied around the head. I have no idea how practical these things were– I’d think that the weight of the wood would cause the goggles to slide off the nose.
Here are some lovely decorations tied to a pole, in a photo I snapped last year. Hmm we will be seeing this white stuff again very soon!
This is a cute thing we saw last year, at a marina off Lake Ontario at Sodus Bay. The business was closed for the season (the boats were all wrapped in tarps and sitting in a solidly frozen harbor), but some of the folks had tied a Christmas tree to the crane for passers-by to see. Cute!
This is a nifty World Geological Map we saw at the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse. It is amazing how all the earth’s plates are tied together, but are always shifting.
So that’s my very lame contribution for the topic of TIED. How did your Photo Hunters go?
Sassy Mom on Fri, 23rd Oct 2009 11:23 pm
Nice take for this week’s theme. Great shots!
Mine’s up too As we tied the knot
ian on Sat, 24th Oct 2009 3:27 am
not lame at all! very interesting tidbits- i like best the Eskimo snow goggles- necessity is indeed the mother of invention =]
Alice Audrey on Sat, 24th Oct 2009 11:02 am
I don’t know about the woodenness, but I remember trying out a pair of imitation Eskimo goggles made of cardboard. So far as cutting down the light while still letting you see, they were amazingly good.
bonggamom on Sat, 24th Oct 2009 11:29 am
Nice set of tied photos. I especially like the mummy, it has so much history “tied” up in it!
BTW My PhotoHunt entry is up, hope you can drop by!
Mar on Sat, 24th Oct 2009 12:21 pm
What an interesting collection for the theme!! the Eskimo goggles are amazing, never seen those before!
Happy weekend
kelly on Sat, 24th Oct 2009 5:23 pm
Great collection of things all “tied” up. I can’t imagine the goggles would be very comfortable but hey, if they work, what can I say!
Come see my cozy tied photos.
Susanne on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 2:48 pm
Great takes on the theme. Gotta love that hanging Christmas tree. And we’ve already had the white stuff flying around here!
Lorna on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 8:12 pm
How could you call that lame? Foour different ways to absolutely slam ‘tied”
I managed to catch someone in a tie….
kaye on Mon, 26th Oct 2009 12:07 am
your finds are always so interesting, I liked the goggles the best. ancient sunglasses