A lamp vendor’s shop in one of the myriad crooked alleyways within the covered souk (market) of Marrakech which I loved for its shapes and colours of the lamps and shades.
The intricate lamps are made from old flattened tin cans, carefully cut out into the elaborate shapes, then punched through with tiny openings. After painstaking soldered assembly, the openings are then masked with brightly coloured glasses – and then sold for a few scant Dollars….
In a former British colony, Marilyn learns about its history and explores its beauties
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As the year draws to an end, Jayita’s visit to a religious landmark inspires her to wish world peace for us all
This iconic tree along The 17 Mile Drive is always a beautiful picture.
Of all the grand features of Paris’s Grands Magasins, Paul Heymont’s favorite is the stained glass dome at Printemps
DrFumblefinger shares images of a Lewis and Clark statue he spotted on the Boise State Capitol grounds.
After I wrote a few words about the floating fisherman’s villages in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, I was asked by
The sign of times soon to come! This was my first summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge in England and I love the picture because it heralds the warm sunny days that are yet to come (please!) after the dark days of winter. The solstice sun-rises are the only occasions these days when the public are allowed to be within touching distance of the old stones that comprise ‘the Henge’.
From his shoebox, Mac pulls another incredible image of Tallinn
Precision engineering – at a bargain price !
Some of these artisans like you to watch – while they handcraft another piece of artwork.
Fascinating to watch recycled art.
All the uses of recycle really derive from its use as a verb. ‘Recycling,’ in the instance you cite, is not really a noun, but a gerund, a verb form that functions as a noun. However, if I say that the Lamp Man “was recycling materials in his shop” we’ve an example of the present participle.
The verb origin of ‘recycle’ also shows in your other example: ‘recycled” functions as an adjective, but only works with the “d” at the end that marks it as taken from the past tense or possibly still in Britain perfect tense.
Now, have I made myself perfectly tense? <g,d&r>
No, they’re right, alright, about the tinwright (great language we share, eh?). It’s just the words that keep getting stuck. We don’t recycle them often enough, perhaps…
Beautiful picture and beautiful thought.
When we talk about recycling, we usually mean that the materials are going back to go through the industrial process again…but again and again: here are the examples of the materials being turned locally into something completely different!
Hi Paul – Good to see you’re keeping on your toes.
Recycling is a noun. “The recycling of paper” – again and again.
Recycle is an adjective. “He made goods of recycled waste”
Two different words !
Never too old to learn !!
Google “Recycled Art” – it’s fascinating stuff.
Example of “Recycled Art” in New York. Surprised you’ve never heard the expression !
So all those making “Recycled Art” are wrong ?
Even in the picture above – in New York ?
OK Paul – I’ll tell ’em !
Or maybe it’s the “Two Nations – divided by a common language”
George Bernard Shaw, Winston Churchill and Oscar Wilde all take the credit for that quote.
I always hesitate to use that quote for fear of offending two of them with a wrong attribution…
That’s OK Paul. Most Brits don’t take offence.
Even though 2 were Irish and one half American !
I never do.
Which is just as well when we’re in a conversation with an Aussie !
They do love verbally teasing the Poms.