#ice ring

[portrait-paintings]

The Reverend Robert Walker (1755-1808) Skating on Duddington Loch

Artist: Sir Henry Raeburn (Scottish, 1756-1823)

Date: ca. 1795

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

Description

This serene skater is thought to be the Reverend Robert Walker, minister of the Canongate Kirk and a member of the Edinburgh Skating Society. The club - the oldest of its kind in Britain - usually met on the frozen lochs of Duddingston or Lochend on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Walker's pose, as he glides across the ice, looks effortless, but would have been recognised by fellow skaters as a difficult and sophisticated manoeuvre. This small picture, showing a figure in action, is quite unlike other known portraits by Raeburn. The painting is commonly known as The Skating Minister.

[onetruechromosome]

I had my first “kids these days,” moment when they were texting and blocking the path in this ice ring.

[gruviasilversblog]

I don't remember if I've said this before, but I have this headcanon that when it comes time to propose, Gray will go crazy for months before he can find the perfect ring for Juvia.

He will go around all the jewelers but no one will convince him and in the end he will end up, thanks to someone's suggestion (I'm still undecided between various characters) to create a ring of ice, indestructible ice like their love and ice capable of not freezing the Juvia's body of water (for this he will be helped by Levy or Freed with their intelligence).

Eventually everyone, including Juvia, discovers what Gray went through to find her the perfect ring and there are those who smile happily, who are proud and who make fun of him. There are also those who say that he could have given her the cheapest thing or not even given her a ring, which she would have accepted anyway and this obviously generates a discussion between the boys and girls, while the sweet couple goes for a walk and talks of their marriage.

In my opinion, the proposal will be made in Rainfall, in that house where they were happy but where Juvia also suffered a lot.

Gray's words will be: "I know how much I hurt you in that period and I know how much strength and how much love it took for you to forgive me, I know what you went through here in my absence, that's why I thought I'd propose you here, because in this way we will build new memories, a new life, in the end here it was like we were married, right?"

[gobydana]

If at least one of the batkids doesn't make an ice ring in the Manor grounds, then they are wasting the area around the manor.

[moodboardmix]

The City Park Ice Rink in Budapest, Hungary,

Milan Radisics Photography, Sony World Photography Awards

[trismi]

Goodnight 2017 Moon I had a fantastic time spending the weekend with my family to close out the year. And here is my last photographic endeavor of the year... from my backyard!

[alxndrasplace]

(NASA)  Ice Ring around Nearby Star Fomalhaut

Image Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), M. MacGregor; NASA/ESA Hubble, P. Kalas; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Why is there a large ice ring around Fomalhaut? This interesting star -- easily visible in the night sky -- lies only about 25 light-years away and is known to be orbited by at least one planet, Dagon, as well as several inner dust disks. More intriguing, perhaps, is an outer ring, first discovered about 20 years ago, that has an unusually sharp inner boundary. The featured recent image by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) shows this outer ring with complete and unprecedented detail -- in pink -- superposed on a Hubble image of the Fomalhaut system in blue. A leading theory holds that this ring resulted from numerous violent collisions involving icy comets and planetesimals, the component objects of planets, while the ring boundaries are caused by the gravity of yet unseen planets. If correct, any interior planets in the Fomalhaut system are likely being continually pelted by large meteors and comets -- an onslaught last seen in our own planetary system four billion years ago in an episode called the Late Heavy Bombardment.

Source

[thetimeandspaceblog]

Object Name: Uranus Image Type: Astronomical Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute) Time And Space