Time: Saving

I was on holiday when the first prompt was listed - surrounded by Mayan ruins and staying in Mérida a town founded in 1542 so there were many ancient and old sites to see.

The photo though that I'm sharing is one I took in the grocery store...

'Time saving' cooking kits

Here are time saving cooking kits to make one of my favorite breakfasts:  chilaquiles!

I'm not sold on cooking kits - seems fresher and more real to buy things individually...  But when I saw these boxes (after wondering why the ones in English were more expensive), I pictured a college student (missing time with his family and his mom's cooking) deciding to buy a box of this cooking kit to try and recreate good times.

: )

Time

An armillary (celestial globe) sphere was origanally used by astronomers to determine the position of stars. The sphere acts as a sun dial. This sphere was originally next to my husband's paternal grandmother's goldfish pond. For many years after Grandmother Vigor passed away the sphere was in my FIL's garden. It was passed on to my husband and myself in 1982. For many years it graced our goldfish pond until we moved this past August to Lexington, KY. As yet we haven't landscaped and constructed a new pond but we plan to this spring. The photos show different views of the sphere with the Roman numerals for telling time nicely patinaed. I like to think of the passage of time and family connections when I look at the sphere and know that it will be passed on to other generations.

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Deco Enamel clock circa 1930.

My Grand-dad's clock with friends.

Couldn't resist this one.  This is the glass front to an old pinball machine.

Time flies.

Nothing like finding an old stack of calenders to remind you of how time flies by.

Passage of Time

My niece will marry this August. She wants to have photos of her grandparents on their wedding day at her wedding and asked me because I am the keeper of most of the photo books. She was blown away when I told her I also had my mother's wedding dress and some bits of lace left from the making of it. Perhaps this will be something old.

When preparing the items for the mail, it gave me pause. It was as though I held something sacred in my hands. My parents married in 1938 which makes both the photo and the lace 72 years old. That's old by today's disposable mentality. I share pictures of both with you here.  The lace is in amazing condition having survived the passage of time quite well.

While it might be odd to share this old but personal photo here, the passage of time makes that possible. The original image was a tiny 2 x 3 inches. I scanned it at a high resolution to grab the details. Obviously this concept was not possible back in the day. 

The passage of time has served my family well.  Quality and technology, you are not such distant cousins!

Tide clock

In some communities there are special ways of measuring time.  When it comes to fishing it is the tide that really matters as that determines when the boats can leave and re-enter port.  This photo was taken at Newlyn which is one of the largest fishing ports in England.  It was originally a small traditional fishing village and in the late nineteenth century was home of the Newlyn School of Painters http://www.penleehouse.org.uk/newlyn-school.html who painted the villagers and their daily life.

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This  QuestionSettler  was posted on Flickr by FeeBeeDee ( CC Attribution License) she says "Copyright 1905, Laird and Lee Publishers. Now out of copyright and in the public domain."

Fragments of Time

Hi There,

I'm Guila in Southern California and this is my first post here.  Thanks for having me !  When I saw the prompt word I immediately thought of a haiku that I wrote and the little art quilt that I did to accompany it.

Specifically the aspect of time that I addressed is... Procrastination..

Why are we so cavalier with time - wasting so much of it?  Could be some  underlying fear of failure or for some - fear of success. Maybe we don't think  that we have the specific skill required or talent needed to complete the task  and that we will face ridicule. Maybe we're in conflict about the task at hand  and aren't even sure it's something that we want to do. Maybe we're overwhelmed  by other demands in our lives and can't give adequate attention to this newer  demand. Maybe we don't have a clear enough image of exactly what it is we want  to accomplish. Maybe the task is boring compared to some other activity that  could substitute.

I considered these ideas and wrote the following Haiku:

Fragments of Time

Demands, wants, needs, musts

I want to..........I don't want to

Relentless tick - tock

This haiku inspired an art quilt. I challenged myself to complete the design and basic construction in a specified period of time - 45 minutes. This would otherwise have been time spent playing a game on the computer. I also limited what I would use to a box full of previously fused scraps.

The completed piece is approximately 12 inches by 12 inches.  Disparate elements brought together to form a cohesive whole. It demonstrates how focus, definition and time limits overcame procrastination in one dedicated to that art. 

Capturing Time

Hello-
My name is Laura and I write to you today from a very chilly (27F) corner of South Carolina. I am new here, and have a photo and revelation to share with you.
Here is a photo I took of the clock tower in Bern, Switzerland. The apartment Einstein lived in while he wrote his paper on relativity (an important topic in our modern understanding of time) is a stone's throw away.
After taking this trip to Switzerland, I was thinking about time, and how there is seemingly no way to capture it as it passes us by, or as we travel (forwards only) through it. However, in looking at a knitting project I worked on while taking the train through Switzerland, I realized that artists, in the act of creating, capture a bit of time by embodying it in our craft. In my case, in each knit stitch I made while traversing the Swiss countryside, I preserved a second of that journey for perpetuity. In the case of the people who created this clock in the 1500's, their craft long outlived them. This will be a good motivator to me to create in this new year.
Thanks for sharing. =)

Time

My brooch is made from watch gears and adorned with orphaned bits of jewelry. They say time travel is impossible but whenever I look at my brooch I journey back in time and remember my adopted father's special pocket watch. He would magically flick it open so I could see it's "workings" whirl and spin in a dance that measured time.

Time---Old and New

These are time pieces--very new and very old! The first is my Hang Watch that I wear on my jeans belt loop. First time I've taken a picture from this angle!!

The second picture is of a clock that has been in my husband's family for several generations. I think it works but we haven't tried it. I'm not sure we would like the "bong" at the hour---especially at night.

Time Flies

Some days time wheels through in a blur.

Big Ben

Sorting some of the photos I took of the fireworks on the telly and realised this would fit the prompt. I was amazed that they were actually shooting fireworks out of the openings above the clock!

Modern Time

Hi everyone. Gerrie Congdon, here. I am new to the blog and doing my first post. I have several wrist watches in drawers and jewelry boxes that I no longer use to tell the time. I have a nickel allergy and without the funds for a Rolex, I just can't wear them. I used to be at the mercy of others or clocks in stores to know what time it was. Enter the iPhone! It is my timepiece of choice.

Believe

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (43 BCE)

I find solice in the fact that there really is "nothing new under the sun".

Time Passes..

..listen, time passes..
Norfolk churchyard..

A Shrine to Time

The first thing you encounter when you enter my studio is "my shrine." It's next to my design wall and I can easily see it from my sewing machine. My husband bought me the wonderful clock and when I hung it, he jokingly said, "So I see you have made a shrine to time." I quickly added that it was a shrine FOR time. Who can't use more time?

Slowing down Time

Marking the passage of time... my husband collects clocks and over the years our daughter has searched far and wide to find the most unusual timepieces as gifts for her father. One grand discovery was the Sundial Wristwatch, a masterpiece with no moving parts.



This was her final offering in the timepiece series - a one of a kind, hand-made clock. It only has to be reset for each new era. The face shows the time as a point in the Cenozoic era and the hand moves imperceptibly... ticking off the millennia. very slow moving clock which allows plenty of time for contemplation.

Diane
http://yarngoddess.wordpress.com

Time Wasting

To say that I've been absent is a bit of an understatement.  I thought I'd share this with you.  Not a clock, but one of my favourite sayings.

Happy and Peaceful 2012 to you all.