*Random Picture Thread*

[lizzardbits]

I thought that we could use a place to post random and neat pictures that we would like to share with everyone.

I know that we have talented photographers out there and thought that this thread might be a great showcase for them

My contribution is the unique parking lot we have infront of our house.

[lizzardbits]

Here is a Cicada that I found in our crab apple tree

[lizzardbits]

the Number 6 Train ~= Choo Choo =~ at a threshing bee that we go to

[WildIrish]

How cool! I love them! Thanks.

[dicksbro]

Neat, Lizz. Great pictures. I'll glance and see if I can't find a couple to share.

Maybe I can put one in now ...

[dm383]

Love the pics, Lizz. I've read loads about the "noise of the cicadas, blah blah blah" in various books, but I've never actually seen a pic of one before. Cute little bug, ain't he?

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the idea! ....... I'll try and find some I haven't posted before, too.

DM

[dm383]

I know I haven't posted this before cos I only took it on thursday, but I may have posted something similar. If so, apologies, although this is much better quality.

Got it when I was out with the dogs and my 'good' camera, previous ones I had I took on my phone camera!

DM

[Oldfart]

A trinket from the Smithsonian.

[dicksbro]

Here's one I like taken at Allerton Park ... a close-up of part of Robert Allerton's mansion.

The second is of the mansion from a distance across his reflecting pool

[lizzardbits]

those are excellent DM, OF and DB!

[rabbit]

From our trip to Colorado this past summer....

[rabbit]

and another...

[rabbit]

...more

[lizzardbits]

those are fantastic!

[lizzardbits]

http://www.picturesofengland.com/pictures/500/Anne_Hathaways_Cottage_1109443821.jpg

This isn't my pic, as I can't seem to get the file small enough for pixies. I just wanted to show you Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon

[rabbit]

Beautiful pics. I just loved England when I visited.

[dicksbro]

Couple more that I kind of like ...

[scotzoidman]

I was gonna start my own thread for this, but maybe this is the best way to go...the missus & I just spent last weekend in a cabin in the smokies...the drive up the side of the mtn included a terrifyingly steep grade that had me convinced that our Cruiser was gonna tumble backwards end over end, & the driveway to our cabin was angled the wrong way for a narrow mtn road...but when we got inside, we found why they put us thru all that...

[scotzoidman]

Picking the best of the pics I got is like choosing my favorite noodle in a spaghetti dinner...but I think these stand out ;)

For some reason, I woke up very early in the morning, but when I saw the chance to get the sunrise pics, I was glad I did...

[osuche]

Scotz, those are gorgeous! Makes me wish I was there, too. I miss fall.

[WildIrish]

I've got a variety of pictures from around the buildings I manage, and these are a couple I've always liked. One is the view from inside an office. What a site!

Goes to show you how camera angle really does matter. :D

[lizzardbits]

Isn't Mother Nature just beautiful!!!

We certainly do have some talented photographers!

[sodaklostsoul]

I love this thread!!!!


Hmmm, when Booger gets the printer/copier hooked back up, I'll get one of kiddo's pics that she took last summer up here.

[PantyFanatic]

Just curious WI. In the 'Tower' pic,.... is there a double, floor level, door under that beam and is it a working lift beam?














(… and are you allowed to keep a fly rod in your locker? :nod: )

[Lilith]

some of my fave place

[PantyFanatic]

........the drive up the side of the mtn included a terrifyingly steep grade that had me convinced that our Cruiser was gonna tumble backwards end over end, & the driveway to our cabin was angled the wrong way for a narrow mtn road.......
Zoid, :) Is that area part of (or near) the Blue Ridge mountain area? It's breathtakingly beautiful country and your description of the razor-edge road sparked an OLD memory from about … 35 years ago …. a while back, along the sheerest drop I ever got to spend about 30 miles next to. MUCH of it was cable guard rail along an edge too steep for trees to grow on, so you had a vista view that you didn't dare look out over. When my white knuckles saw the sign for 'Hungry Mother State Park', I knew somebody else had the same thoughts about the road that I was having. I sold that car years later, with my fingerprints still in the steering wheel.

BEAUTIFUL area :loveshowe , but somebody else can do the driving.:yikes:

[lizzardbits]

I should have named this "Pixies Postcards" These pictures are all postcard worthy!!! I love it!

I have more, but the file sizes are just too big and my program sucks to shrink for Pixie viewing....Anyone care to help? Thank you in advance!!

[Lilith]

You can email things to me at [email protected] and I'll gladly shrink them and send them back.

[WildIrish]

Just curious WI. In the 'Tower' pic,.... is there a double, floor level, door under that beam and is it a working lift beam?


(… and are you allowed to keep a fly rod in your locker? :nod: )


You bet there are floor level double doors under that beam. A pair on each of the five levels. The doors are solid mahogany...painted green on the outside. :yikes: And the beam was used all day every day from 1864 to 1985, when the mill moved south in search of a more affordable environment.

I've yet to drop a line, but rumor has it that the fishing is great! We own three dams on the river, and there's a pin-truss bridge spanning it as well. All I need to do is make the time!

Here's a view from the front; the doors are in the background. My office is behind the two windows to the right. ;)

[scotzoidman]

Zoid, :) Is that area part of (or near) the Blue Ridge mountain area? It's breathtakingly beautiful country and your description of the razor-edge road sparked an OLD memory from about … 35 years ago …. a while back, along the sheerest drop I ever got to spend about 30 miles next to. MUCH of it was cable guard rail along an edge too steep for trees to grow on, so you had a vista view that you didn't dare look out over. When my white knuckles saw the sign for 'Hungry Mother State Park', I knew somebody else had the same thoughts about the road that I was having. I sold that car years later, with my fingerprints still in the steering wheel.

BEAUTIFUL area :loveshowe , but somebody else can do the driving.:yikes:
PF, this was strictly in the Smokies, on the TN side (altho I'm pretty sure you can see parts of NC in the pics...the big mtn in the distance should be Klingman's Dome, highest point in TN, & NC is on the south slope)...I think Blue Ridge is farther east in NC & VA ...mrs zoid ridiculed me for leaning forward during the climb, like that'd help, but I really felt the need to move our center of gravity up any way I could :yikes: I have always had an intense fear of heights, & I recall a trip thru the area, hmm, may have been...about … 35-40 years ago (I was still a child, mind you) into NC to see the outdoor theatre show "Until These Hills", about the Cherokee Indians who USED to live in the area...the bus was being piloted by a sadist who seemed to take pleasure in my terror, taking the kind of curves you describe way too fast...time & therapy haven't been enough to keep me from breaking into a cold sweat at the memory :sad:
In fact, the cabin had an old relief map on the porch to help us visitors get our bearings, & I took a pic of that too...I'm hoping that my resizing it for pixies hasn't eliminated too much detail, but the crudely hand-drawn "X" in the center is about where we were, on the SE face of the Chilhowee Mtns...

[lizzardbits]

here are more that PF helped me to resize ~~Thank you kindly~~

Beautiful is a lily that grows at my folk's place

the others are all pictures taken at my last trip to England

[lizzardbits]

more "post cards" from England

[lizzardbits]

:) :d :)

[PantyFanatic]

You bet there are floor level double doors under that beam. A pair on each of the five levels. The doors are solid mahogany...painted green on the outside. :yikes: And the beam was used all day every day from 1864 to 1985, when the mill moved south in search of a more affordable environment......
What a great building, WI.:D As much as I'm against 'regulation' beyond safety codes, you should not be able to put up a building with more than one story, (including homes) that doesn't have a beam. They could be esthetically acceptable even if made retractable to do so and the beating that would be saved to the building over it's life, (not to mention the work) would be great. :)

And since we're here…………….. :box:

A flat roof by any architect should be 100% guaranteed, by them AND their descendants, for the life of the building, if it is above 35º N latitude!

……….. And you can NOT have a basement for ANY building without a minimum of a 48" exterior stairwell!

*weeee*




Resume construction :)

[WildIrish]

It is a cool set of buildings, that's for sure.

I'm not a fan of flat roofs either! But if there's a decent height parapet wall...they make for fine swimming pools when you plug the roof drains. :D

[Aqua]

Snoqualmie falls.

Falling particularly hard from all the rain we've had here lately.

[WildIrish]

Nice falls!

I sure love rocks and rivers.

[lizzardbits]

WOW! those are some cool pics Aqua!

[Neige]

When Lake is away on business for a few days, he gets my parents to take care of Vinci, our kitty. My parents have an adorable bunny, Chatouil. While at first, the cat and the bunny didn't want anything to do with one another, Vinci is now starting to realize that he is getting bigger than the bunny. And he is soooooooo curious about that rabbit!!! Sorry about the third pic being so dark... Vinci would wait until the rabbit peeked over the edge of his little house to give him a tap on the nose!

[osuche]

This is a picture of me, the man I love and admire most in this world (my grandfather), and his wife. Note that his wife is his high school sweetheart, who he got back together with after 47 years of not seeing one another.


We're in Sonoma at a winery, about 35 miles from my house.

BTW - I look awful in this photo (lost a lot of weight since then), but the scenery looks great!

One of the toughest things about living in San Francisco is that I don't get to see my granfather -- who is 81 -- very often. :(

[osuche]

In my husband's family, they have what they call pujas, where they worship their gods. They offer special foods and prayers, and say blessings over a sacred flame.

You'll see a white shell in the foreground. It's a conch shell. The priest blows in the conch shell to make a horn like noise. Blowing the conch is a ritual during the puja and is a form of prayer to the gods.

After the puja, everyone shares the sacred food.

[osuche]

This is me when I was in high school. 17, in love with music, and the man who took these photos. We're in a field about 1/4 mile from my house where I grew up.

Yes, I was almost a music major...and then I realized I had to put food on the table. And I just wasn't that good a musician! :spin:




The other photo is of the City I have grown to love over the past two years. Yes, it really looks like that. Often.

It amazes me every time I see it.

[Lilith]

great pictures. Soounds like they are attached to beautiful memories.

[rabbit]

Snoqualmie falls.

Falling particularly hard from all the rain we've had here lately.


Ever been to the Salish Lodge?

[rabbit]

some of my fave place


Very familiar sites for me growing up...

*sniff*

I miss FL....

[mayhem1978]

Hmm so thats why my phone bill has been so high the last few months lol lol lol

[Lilith]

I have that^^^^ cat :p

[PantyFanatic]

I have that^^^^ cat :p
Take his phone card away.

[lizzardbits]

She's adorable, Sweetie!

[Cheyanne]

Our first snow.... looking off our back 4-seasons room.

[lizzardbits]

That^^ looks like school mornings back when I was growing up. Thanks for the lovely trip down memory lane Chey! :D

[Cheyanne]

That^^ looks like school mornings back when I was growing up. Thanks for the lovely trip down memory lane Chey! :D


You are welcome! :D Remember, when you are in merry old England, and miss home - let me know and I will take some pictures for you! ((((LIZZ))))

[lizzardbits]

That would be fantastic Chey! You know what would be the things I might miss the most are pictures of snow and snowdrifts. And then in the summer, my grandparents like to take pictures of the corn on the 4th of July. As silly as that may sound, it will always mean "home" to me.

(((((Chey)))))

[mayhem1978]

A long while ago (im going back about 10 years now) i used to work for VW and was sent on a training course to their head office here in the UK. I was given a very unique car to drive there and back.

The day before Lizz arrived i saw it again.....Told you it was unique

[IowaMan]

Yeah, I think you hit it square on the head there Mayhem. "Unique"

She's a beauty alright. :D

[PantyFanatic]

I guess they figured you wouln't be trying to slip into the titty bar on their tab with that parked in front. :roflmao:

[rabbit]

Taken at Miami Metrozoo last week...this female tiger was waiting for the zookeeper to feed her.

[rabbit]

Also taken at Metrozoo...

[Neige]

Ohhh such pretty kitties! I love tigers!

[Neige]

Here are a few pics I took today... The first is of some trees that broke during the freezing rain storm we had a couple of nights ago, and the other two are of the snow in the park next to where I live (you can see broken branches in those pics too). I love snow :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[rabbit]

Beautiful winter pics. I like snow in December thru February. After that...Spring please!

:daisy:

[lizzardbits]

This last summer, back in Iowa, I accidently got a picture of a bat in flight. I thought it was pretty neato!

[mayhem1978]

While we were at my parents yesterday just before sunday lunch we saw this small furry creature having its sunday lunch.

It was there for a good 20 mins chowing down

[dicksbro]

Yesterday, I took a drive and ended in E. Peoria looking across the Illinois River towards Peoria. I had my camera and took several pictures of the skyline and when I got home ... I combined three into something of a panorama shot. Originally 5487 x 1809 pixels ... it was too large to upload, so, I kept reducing it down until it was under 100K.

So, here it is, one of my first attempts at merging pictures into a panoramic shot ...



The second picture is of one of the smallest "tow boats" I've seen on the river. Kind of a misnomer since they really push the barges. Anyway. It was kind of cute.

[IowaMan]

Was actually just getting ready to PM you to post that panoramic shot on this one. Great minds huh? :D

[dicksbro]

Here's another panorama of two converging railroad tracks. There's actually five converging tracks, but to include them all took far, far too much space. Anyway, I thought it looked interesting.

I guess I'll add one more ... actually my first try ... just an open area in local park.

[lizzardbits]

Those are FANTASTIC!!!! Great job!!!

[Scarecrow]

Great photos DB, the first one shot across the Illinois looked familiar to me. I've been by that way a time or two in years past

[gekkogecko]

Yes, but exactly where and how do the tracks converge? *That's* the interesting part.

[sodaklostsoul]

Awsome pics DB!! Can't wait to see some of that country this summer.

[dicksbro]

Yes, but exactly where and how do the tracks converge? *That's* the interesting part.

Just about where I was standing quietly minding my own business taking pictures when this rumble started and a loud whistle blew ... thinking it was some fair damsel flirting, I played it coy and closed my eyes .... (scene fades to black ... :angel: :wish: :angel: ).

:)

[Oldfart]

I just bought these at the Supermarket.

No photo-shop etc required.

[osuche]

I just bought these at the Supermarket.

No photo-shop etc required.


I love the tag....

"There's no substitute for quality."

:rofl:

[IowaMan]

I just bought these at the Supermarket.

No photo-shop etc required.
OMG that is good!

Reminds me of a friend of mine who always asked for "Whisker Biscuits and Gravy" when we'd go out for breakfast after a night at the bars. That moron got slapped by pretty much every waitress in the state. :spin:

[Oldfart]

I suspect this is an appeal to the wedge of the Australian psyche which relates to the drovers and stockmen, mainly itinerant animal musterers akin to the American "cowboy". The bush these men lived and worked in bore little resemblance to the female hall of companionship.

[jbh3]

Here's a Nude E-card that cup sent me

[dicksbro]

Here's a picture of The Spirit of Peoria riverboat docked near the downtown. Boat takes cruises (in warmer weather) up and down the Illinois River including dinner cruises and over night trips to Starved Rock State Park about 70-80 miles up river.

[osuche]

Picture of the sign on the door to the men's portion of the seperated beach (for Hasidic and observent Jews) in Tel Aviv. This beach is gorgeous - Israel loves its beaches and this one is on the Mediteranean Sea.

[jbh3]

Here's a picture of The Spirit of Peoria riverboat docked near the downtown. Boat takes cruises (in warmer weather) up and down the Illinois River including dinner cruises and over night trips to Starved Rock State Park about 70-80 miles up river.

Man, I'd love to spend a day on that!!! A great pic for the middle of January!!

[Stolen Kisses]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e35/StolenKisses74/hamiltonbyzoobermuda2006.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e35/StolenKisses74/johnsmithbeach3bermuda2006.jpg


Bermuda

[PantyFanatic]

Somebody reminded me I have a lot of old slides to convert to digital format last week. Here's one I took a while back. WTF is it? :sad:








:roflmao:

[jbh3]

frozen leaves????
dead brain cells????

[cupcake]

A snow flake???

[PantyFanatic]

VERY interesting pic, OSUChe.

[osuche]

Somebody reminded me I have a lot of old slides to convert to digital format last week. Here's one I took a while back. WTF is it? :sad:


:roflmao:


Ice on a car windshield? :sad:

[PantyFanatic]

WOW! That was fast.

Actually the only dead brain cells belong to the photographer and CC is very close. It is frost on the inside of a bedroom window at sunrise.

[PantyFanatic]

I see we have a lot of fast, smarties. Here's another one from my file of goofy glimpses. :wobbly:

[jbh3]

thats a close up of a torn bball net

[jbh3]

This is fun pf.....CC has a thread on her soaps forum where people post crazy pics and all the members try to guess...perhaps you should start a WTF is That? thread!!!

[inthefoothills]

Here is one I took not far from my house late last summer.
Hope Ya'll enjoy ( anyone want to guess if I am a hillbilly? ) lol
:devil:

[jbh3]

peaceful....very peaceful

[PantyFanatic]

Nothing 'hillbilly' I can see in that beautiful pic, ITFH. :thumb:

[Booger]

Pf My Guess would be a close up of a burning log


Did you have a job with some kid magazine at one time. I can't remember the name of it right now but they always had pics like that and you had to guess what it was.

[PantyFanatic]

This is fun pf.....CC has a thread on her soaps forum where people post crazy pics and all the members try to guess...perhaps you should start a WTF is That? thread!!!
That sounds like fun, JBH. I know we have some Pixies with REAL shutter talent. I should have saved that last one as it's one of my better and it is a LOT closer up than a BBall net. ;)

[PantyFanatic]

..... and it's not a burning log, Boog. ;)










(closer) :nod:

[jbh3]

That sounds like fun, JBH. I know we have some Pixies with REAL shutter talent. I should have saved that last one as it's one of my better and it is a LOT closer up than a BBall net. ;)

Oh shit....I don't know what the foreground is....but I focused on the background and I do believe I see a woman crouched down holding. the unknown item....fishnets????perhaps

[PantyFanatic]

Yep.............. for VERY tiny-tiny fish. LOL
Sorry CC. :rofl: Everything would have a silky texture if there was a woman crouching down in front of MY camera. :undies: LOL


MUCH smaller. ;)

[Neige]

My guess is it's a branch of grapes, minus the grapes.

[PantyFanatic]

You are going in the right direction, only not far enough, PS. :) (and YOU see too much of this stuff to play ;) )


I'll drag this one out as I don't have any otheres that came out this good. Here's a hint with a step back.

[Neige]

I know I know!!! A leaf!!! :D

[PantyFanatic]

You cheat! I guess a physical anthropologist looks closer at leaf skeletons than most folks. LOL

Here is the leaf stuck in the crack of my patio table. I thought it a bit unique with the total, almost complete hollow, leaf intact.

[Neige]

A physical anthropologist looks at humans, not leaves. Besides, I'm an archaeologist, not a physical anthropologist! :p

[jbh3]

You've got to be the sexiest archaeologist the world has ever seen!!!!

[Neige]

:lurv: Thank you!!!!! :D

[PantyFanatic]

A physical anthropologist looks at humans, not leaves. Besides, I'm an archaeologist, not a physical anthropologist! :p
:huh:
And archeologists don't look for vegetation fossils? :confused:



... And why were you digging in those trapper's toilets? :rofl:

[Neige]

:huh:
And archeologists don't look for vegetation fossils? :confused:



... And why were you digging in those trapper's toilets? :rofl:

They may look for them in some cases, true. Something like your leaf won't last very long in the soil I am used to excavating though! ;) Pollens are a more common, more reliable indicator of vegetation.

No trappers' toilets... But other piles of shit! :p

[gekkogecko]

:huh:
And archeologists don't look for vegetation fossils? :confused:


No, that's palynologists. And most often, the fossils they're looking for are pollen and such.

[jbh3]

I hate to hi-jack... but.......

[gekkogecko]

That's a thread hijacking? Nah, that's sexy woman.

[PantyFanatic]

Now THAT is something I would like to 'pollinate'. :loveshowe


:thumbs:

[sodaklostsoul]

Now THAT is something I would like to 'pollinate'. :loveshowe


:thumbs:
*sigh* PF just can't keep his stinger in his pants.


















:D

[IowaMan]

*sigh* PF just can't keep his stinger in his pants.

:D
Uh oh, now I'm going to have Scorpion dreams. :yikes:

[sodaklostsoul]

Roflmao!!!!!!!!!!

[jbh3]

Without A Trace

[jbh3]

My apt in Ocean City , MD

[Neige]

After showing this pic to a Pixie, he convinced me to post it for all to see!

This is my little hunter over Christmas break, on an especially warm day. Lake and I were leaving to go to the beach and we found Vinci next to the patio with a victim!!! He was soooooo concentrated on torturing that poor mole!

[IowaMan]

Glad you shared that one PixieSprite. Vinci is absolutely adorable. :D

[osuche]

Me at the beach with a good friend

[jbh3]

This is me with my new gf...Jackie . She's a Gynocologist :cool:
She can be a real jerk sometimes but I love her.
I better go now before she gives me a whack

[IowaMan]

:roflmao:

I'm dating her identical twin! It's a real up and down kind of relationship. Pretty messy at times. :D

[sodaklostsoul]

Thanks for making me laugh guys^^^^!!!

[Booger]

A few snow pics here fisrt and last are of the snow cap on the ball on soda's car the middle 3 are of the trees out back.

[Lilith]

amazing

[sodaklostsoul]

Poor little ball had a dunce cap.

[PantyFanatic]

Just like the one on the parking marker? :confused:

[lizzardbits]

I love snow like that

[Winston77]

Sunset over the Pacific

[Neige]

Here is a pic my sister sent to me this afternoon of my darling Vinci. Isn't he just gorgeous? :D

[IowaMan]

He sure is Neige. Definitely goes in the "What made you smile today?" thread. :D

[IowaMan]

Here's what I use as the wallpaper for my computer screen. A pic I took of my favorite city. Then again I'm going to be visiting one this summer that I suspect may give Chicago a run for it's money.

[mikaylasmummy]

Neat, Lizz. Great pictures. I'll glance and see if I can't find a couple to share.

Maybe I can put one in now ...


Love all the pix, but expecially this one thanks for sharing

[Oldfart]

Dinner scenery.

[Oldfart]

Another

[IowaMan]

Now that's the kind of backdrop for a nice dinner! :thumb:

[Oldfart]

Lastly.

[Oldfart]

IM

Informal and not too expensive.

[scotzoidman]

The frog reminds me of someone... :shrug:

[PantyFanatic]

..... Then again I'm going to be visiting one this summer that I suspect may give Chicago a run for it's money.
:yikes:
Not if there is a polymer shortage this summer?

[IowaMan]

:yikes:
Not if there is a polymer shortage this summer?
Well, we'll see. I'm planning on making the trip come hell or high water. Gonna take an awful lot for me to like it better than Chicago though.

[PantyFanatic]

As requested by the jealous people in chat, I'm posting a pic of my best computer upgrade ever. :D

[sodaklostsoul]

As requested by the jealous people in chat, I'm posting a pic of my best computer upgrade ever. :D
I"ll take one please.

[scotzoidman]

As requested by the jealous people in chat, I'm posting a pic of my best computer upgrade ever. :D
Install a urinal and that should put an end to those "brb" messages in chat forever ;)

[Oldfart]

PF,

Didn't you get one of those at Niagara? We got ours at the Big Mountie.

[Winston77]

Great nieghbors

[Winston77]

How far will you go for a beer

[Oldfart]

My frog visitor came back.

[scotzoidman]

My frog visitor came back.
He looks like he's waiting for you to offer him a beer...

[Oldfart]

Beer? He's a Midori drinker. He's the right colour and can do a great imitation of a Tequila worm. If you ever find a lumpy bottle of Midori . . . . . .

[Lilith]

He's a gorgeous thing. And I love the shots that camera takes!

[Aqua]

Some people just don't know when to stop putting stuff on the exterior of their car...

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4849/wrxwing3ks7.jpg

[PantyFanatic]

When you have more snow than places to put it.................

[PantyFanatic]

... a pic of The Gang of Four I found online.

[PantyFanatic]

.... and The Gang of Four that found my country.

[Winston77]

The beehive

[Oldfart]

A cotton boll?

One hell of a weevil hole in it.

Bigger cotton bushes than we see here.

[Neige]

This is what I see when I look out my window. I'm in a basement apartment, but the window is still a bit above ground level...

[IowaMan]

Maybe if I post this picture, the snow will melt faster and Spring will get here. :wish:

[Booger]

fresh home made sausage I stuffed today. The first shot is before I turn them into link and the second is them turned into links. If you look closely you notice I had a couple blow outs.

[sodaklostsoul]

Course this was after you stuffed YOUR sausage. :D

[dicksbro]

Went out today to try and get in my mile walk (try to do that 3 or four times a week weather permitting. Always take my camera and took these pictures which I hope you enjoy ...

[IowaMan]

Sort of a dreary day here as I look out my front window. Not a lot going on in the Metropolis. :)

[Neige]

Here are a couple of examples of the artifacts I am studying, per request.

(The scale is in centimeters.)

[Lilith]

What do you think about them so far?


Here are the wild irises I have growing by my pond.

[Neige]

So far I think that they are not what I would like to prove them to be :p

[Oldfart]

Pre-english colonial salt-glazed pottery?

[Neige]

Nope.

The first is Anglo-American lead-glazed earthenware. I wish the second wasn't, but it probably is. I wish it was either Acadian lead-glaze earthenware (preferably), or Québécois lead-glazed earthenware.

(Salt glaze was used for stonewares - you can recognize it by the texture of it, which looks sort of like an orange peel.)

[Oldfart]

We had some cake and wine for a friend's birthday this afternoon.

These critters are the dry season incarnate.

I had the wrong lens on the camera, but they'll do for the moment.

[PantyFanatic]

.....I had the wrong lens on the camera, but they'll do for the moment.
:rofl:

Fantastic pics. :thumb:

[dicksbro]

Went out to the park yesterday morning for my morning coffee and spent the time talking with my buddy, Sammy. Sammy's not much for talking, but he is a good listener. He just sat there chomping on an acorn or something for several minutes.

[scotzoidman]

The first Sammy pic is a great candidate for a "caption the picture" contest...

[Lilith]

Did you see that naked dude that had that flashing thing?

[PantyFanatic]

"OMG! No wonder the others of your kind wears clothes. :eek: "

[Lilith]

Did ya get a look at those nuts????

[dicksbro]

http://smileyjungle.com/smilies/love0.gif

[Oldfart]

Hey, kin I climb this twig to get to the nuts?

[Oldfart]

This I picked as I was putting out the garbage bin/trash/wheelie bin.

I couldn't find a Yank dime for you to relate size to, but did find a Canadian dime ( from Niagara).

Beauty is often unnoticed.

[PantyFanatic]

Canada has a ten cent coin. Only America (as was pointed out to me by some Aussie :rolleyes: ) has a coin with only the name "dime", and no value marked on it. ;)




Great pics OF. :thumb: Thanks. There are many fantastic things on the scale of the 'wee people'.

[dicksbro]

This I picked as I was putting out the garbage bin/trash/wheelie bin.

I couldn't find a Yank dime for you to relate size to, but did find a Canadian dime ( from Niagara).

I'll have a dime ready for ya' at Nashville. :)

[Oldfart]

I have a couple, just not readily to hand.

[GreenChef]

Here are a couple

Sorry about the mediocre quality
my phone has a lamo camera
A nice warm Spring Day in Montreal
O.K. I forget the exact date, but I'd guess sometime in March or April
The Last is from the morning of Game Seven vs Boston
A fan decorated a Statue in Old Montreal, notice the car in the background for size reference
Price Larger than life !!! ...:hockey:
A nice tribute I think
The city even left it there for at least 4-5 days
Sadly after the Game Two loss I noticed it was gone

[PantyFanatic]

Thanks for sharing the balmy pics of spring time in Montreal :rofl:

[GreenChef]

Want more?

we got a little precipitation about a month ago
March 8th I believe

This is the Walk out to go see a Show
A good 'ol Rock 'n Roll Show
funnily enough not a lot of people showed up for the show
Wimps !

we had a blast though
one or two of my friends spent more time in than on the snow on the way home as I recall...

[Oldfart]

The spring pics look like the inside of my fridge. I'm so glad I live tropically.

I'm still looking for my microscope for the last pic.

[dicksbro]

I thought "3.jpg" was someone who didn't walk fast enough from his car to the front door. :yikes:

[PantyFanatic]

I think that was just Sharni wanting to play and make snow angels. (You know how those Aussies do everything on the wrong side of the road :shrug: )

[GreenChef]

LMAO

nah, just my drunk friend throwing himself into the snow

Guess I shouldn't have kept giving him the flask of Jameson's
ah well no more damage done than usual...

[dicksbro]

Before they dsappear, I thought I'd share some of natures beauty that is right here in our yard ...

[dicksbro]

... and just a few more. Last one is the the little "memorial" we have for our beloved cat, Pokey.

Hope you enjoyed.

[IowaMan]

Those are great pics DB. And the memorial for Pokey is beautiful.

[Oldfart]

Mrs OF was wondering what type of poppy it was.

[dicksbro]

Mrs OF was wondering what type of poppy it was.

Actually, they're just tulips from a package of mixed types. They were initially planted about 8 years ago and have just come back each year. Probably some cross breeding.

I don't think flowers are monogamous. :D

[scotzoidman]

Actually, they're just tulips from a package of mixed types. They were initially planted about 8 years ago and have just come back each year. Probably some cross breeding.

I don't think flowers are monogamous. :D
As a matter of fact, they're all quite slutty.

[IowaMan]

/me makes note to self to plant some slutty seed! :D

[PantyFanatic]

:thumb:
I think I heard you have a LOT of slutty seed you want to plant. :nod:









:rofl:

[Oldfart]

He's just a sow and sow.

A strange visitor from another world came by.

[scotzoidman]

As a matter of fact, they're all quite slutty.
All I know is the air is filled (along with my nasal passages) with the by-products of indiscriminate & casual plant sex right now.

Not to mention, a trip outside smells not unlike the interior of a porn peep show booth (not that I would know what that's like) :shrug:

[dicksbro]

Our fair town was honored this weekend by having a traveling, one-half scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC brought here for people to see. It was truly impressive and along with the wall, a Huey helicopter was here along with many photos and memorabilia from the war years.

I've attached just a few of the photos to share with you.

The people in charge were very pleased. They indicated that they basically had a constant crowd of 200-400 people passing through the exhibit all weekend long with a large crowd of more than 400 today for a special closing ceremony.

[osuche]

Here's a picture of the Mendocino coast line, where I went to spend a couple of days on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

[osuche]

Here's one of the beach I spent the afternoon reading and relaxing...it was a grand time

[IowaMan]

Absolutely beautiful.............. and I don't just mean the scenery, the photographer is a very nice sight as well. :nod:


Oh god, I hope you took these and not Mr. Osuche. :p

Looks like it would've been difficult not to enjoy the stay there.

[dicksbro]

Osuche, those pictures are fantastic. The scenery is terrific! :thumbs:

[Oldfart]

Here's a picture of the Mendocino coast line, where I went to spend a couple of days on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

All that section of coast needs is a few miles of golden beaches.

[dicksbro]

Did my morning walk this morning and took a few of some of the wild flowers I saw. Thought I'd share them with you.

[dicksbro]

Old barns are a favorite subject with me and I took pictures of three on my way home after the walk.

[dicksbro]

When I got home, I took a few of flowers around the house. I gotta tell ya, the lilacs smell wonderful!!! :)

[Oldfart]

Very pretty, our countryside is fading to brown as the dry sets in.

[dicksbro]

With all this rain, I suspect the mushroom hunters are thrilled at their prospects. :boink:

[Oldfart]

The wild weather didn't offer any picture opportunities?

[dicksbro]

We actually dodged the bullet on the worst of the weather and just got a little rain. I even mowed the yard today. :)

I did find one of my favorite pictures from last year ... so I'll share it in lieu of the wild weather.

[AngelicVampires]

This was taken by my brother while he was on an aircraft carrier on his way to Iraq. If I can find them, I will post more pics of the troops.

[AngelicVampires]

Found the Iraq pics...

[AngelicVampires]

And some more

[AngelicVampires]

And 1 for gekko

[AngelicVampires]

1 more for gekko

[dicksbro]

Wow, AV. I didn't know gecko's were into bondage. :faint:

http://www.pixies-place.com:81/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65430

[dicksbro]

Here's some I took on my walk yesterday ...

[Oldfart]

It's looking greener and warmer DB.

[AngelicVampires]

Wow, AV. I didn't know gecko's were into bondage. :faint:

http://www.pixies-place.com:81/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=65430

Well now you do ;)

[dicksbro]

Couple of friends I met at the park yesterday.

[Oldfart]

Never a 30-06 when you need one, eh DB?

[Lilith]

Because of the Walmart being built nearby we have actually had near misses in the car lately with giant deer, right on my street.

[dicksbro]

Because of the Walmart being built nearby we have actually had near misses in the car lately with giant deer, right on my street.

Might I suggest you continue to miss them. http://bestsmileys.com/angles/9.gif

[PantyFanatic]

Because of the Walmart being built nearby we have actually had near misses in the car lately with giant deer, right on my street.
*flips through book*

Let's see, we have White-tailed deer, Mule deer, Marsh deer, Pampas deer, Red Brocket, Merioa Brocket and Dwarf Brocket, deer. We've got Pygmy Brocket ,Yucatan Brown Brocket, Little Red Brocket. :rolleyes: There's Pudú, Taruca, Chilean Huemul, Roe Deer, Caribou, Reindeer and even Moose.

Can't find 'Giant deer' anywhere. :confused:

It must be something else Walmart is importing. :shrug:

















:rofl:

[Lilith]

In Florida deer are the size of cocker spaniels :p So these are older full grown things with horns and stuff

[jay-t]

Giant deer in Florida??? :huh:








How many mudslides did you have? :)

[Lilith]

Hey it was 6 am! I don't drink til ten! Fer fuck's sake, I'm a lady ya know!






















:D

[PantyFanatic]

Ah yes! "things with horns and stuff" Now I know what you mean.




( I think she was looking at a lobster ;) )















:roflmao:

[Neige]

Hey, we have lobsters as big as deer where I'm from, like 6 feet long...

Edited to add: but they don't go shopping at Walmart, though.

[PantyFanatic]

RIGHT! :rolleyes2


6 foot lobsters........... yeah :nod:























( I think she was looking at a deer)

:D

[Neige]

:roflmao:

Ok, I've never seen it. But I know where it is. It doesn't ever move - it's one of the attractions for divers at home.

[Neige]

And I realize that this isn't *quite* 6 feet... (;)) But it's still a helluva lobster. Seriously though, once they get too big to get caught in the traps, they grow forever. A lobster has pretty much no enemies in the sea... This one had come ashore during a storm a couple years ago. That's my grandmother holding it. They found two like that on the shore - one was still alive, so they ate it, and the second one was dead so they cooked it for the cats. They each weighed 15 lbs.

[PantyFanatic]

...one was still alive, so they ate it...
That'll teach em, eh?

LMAO


OMG that IS a monster :yikes: But I would only guess it to be 2m long. ;)





I never thought about the trap size having a 'get out of jail free' factor. How old can one get?

Very interesting. TY for sharing.

[Neige]

...But I would only guess it to be 2m long. ;)
:rofl:


I think they live forever. Wikipedia says over a hundred years old (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster):
Lobsters grow throughout their lives and it is not unusual for a lobster to live for more than 100 years. In fact, lobsters may exhibit "negligible senescence", in that they can effectively live indefinitely, barring injury, disease, capture, etc.

[PantyFanatic]

Lilith! Send Gamera!!!

There really could be a giant lobster that is going to trample New York.

:doorpeek:

[Neige]

It'll just be a deer. :p

[Neige]

This lobster was caught in the bay at home... Pretty, isn't it?

[PantyFanatic]

:roflmao:


NO! Aint buying it. ;)


Besides the one missing lower leg, that tail turned under says he's going into the pot or just got out. :bite:

[Neige]

He hasn't been in yet - he wouldn't still have the elastic bands around his claws had he already been cooked.

[PantyFanatic]

True.



Was that just a PhotoShop job or did you really color the poor fellow?

[Neige]

He was that colour coming out of the trap. They're rare, but they exist.

[PantyFanatic]

BTW-
Are those 8" or 12" floor tiles? Either way, he's well over a 2 pounder.

[Neige]

I have no clue, it's the fisherman's floor, not mine LOL!

[PantyFanatic]

He was that colour coming out of the trap. They're rare, but they exist.
Oh WOW! Never heard of that. What accounts for the color shift. Must be something different in the diet.
VERY interesting.

[Neige]

I think it's more of a genetic mutation than the diet, but I really don't know!

[PantyFanatic]

Seeing that this has been lobster :jacques:, ....... I'll share a pic of a couple Homarus americanus that a friend (who will remain nameless Steph :rolleyes: ) sent me.



;)

[Neige]

And you thought my grandmother's lobster was a giant :eek:

[PantyFanatic]

The person that sent it to me is a monster so I figured it the norm.

(I think it could fly too)














:rofl:

[dicksbro]

Oh WOW! Never heard of that. What accounts for the color shift. Must be something different in the diet.
VERY interesting.

You think maybe it aggravated an octopus and it squirted him with permanent ink. :shrug:

[Oldfart]

That'll teach em, eh?

LMAO


OMG that IS a monster :yikes: But I would only guess it to be 2m long. ;)





I never thought about the trap size having a 'get out of jail free' factor. How old can one get?

Very interesting. TY for sharing.

PF,

2 metres long is the size of a medium football player.

The bug was maybe 800-900 millimetres ( perhaps 3 feet).

[Neige]

"LE CANADA DOIT ETRE UN PAYS DE LIBERTE ET TOUTES LES LIBERTES DOIVENT ETRE PROTEGEES PAR LA LOI."
-sir George-Étienne Cartier, 1867

(Translation: "Canada must be a country of liberty and all liberties must be protected by the law".)

This is a statue in the Parc Mont Royal, here in Montreal. :)