I can't believe how quick this year is going .. here we are in August already!

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Luna Park in Sydney. Looked like stars when I took it but it must have just been the flash blouncing off dust or something.

Some rather pretty flowers

A shot of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, rather famously located in Ohio. One of those places that the locals think nothing much of, having had it here for all this time. Others are not so flip, I reckon. It's a truly interesting place --- IF you're into football and the players of it, that is !

Bell Tower
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
My alma mater
Home of the TARHEELS
NCAA Basketball Champions!!

Amazing photo of the bird, Tredici!

This afternoon it rained very, very hard - but only for about ten minutes. This was taken from my front porch, and there was a lovely refreshing spray of water being blown in by the wind

oh man, I wish that were here!

Love those flowers, Lioness - what are they?
and the bird too - very cool!

A rather colourful and hairy caterpillar
He is about two inches long

Oh boy, august... I only posted yesterday's in July. Oops.

More railway activity, a train passing through Teddington

Fantastic caterpillar, Copagao!

At the Indianapolis Children's Museum - blown glass diplayed in a glass ceiling.

Galahs.

Sea wall.

Copago - those galahs are pretty cool. How did you get so close?

Flopsymopsy - those colours are amazing

Beautiful colours, djsgal! Copago, those galahs are gorgeous, what soft pinks and greys.

The 'Lisa von Lubeck' leaving town, cannons firing, after this weekend's festival.



edited for spelling.

I like the gallahs, too.

Nothing like Independence Day in Washington, DC! We got to view the fireworks over the National Mall from an office building across the Potomac River.

A bend in the road, not easily missed!

I've seen the Chihuly glass at Kew Gardens as well. And who else recognises the galah from Karl Kennedy's house?

Here's the pond at Waterlow Park in Highgate, right next to the hospital where I was born

We literally have mobs of hundreds of galahs around the house at certain times of year. At the moment they must be ready to lay eggs for spring. They are around allllll the time that I think they just don't worry too much about us which is how I got so close ... oh and camera zoom. I've seen them drinking out of water bowls with my dog not too far away.

Here is the mooon from during the day.

Great picture, Copago! Your camera must have a great zoom lens

Care to join me for a chat?

I would love to join that fellow for a chat!
Love the galahs, Copago, and the moon is fantastic.

As a child, I believed that if the cows were lying down in the field, it was sure to rain. Well, this little lot, snapped in passing from my sister's car, got it wrong today. Though there were threatening black clouds all around not long after, the rain never came.

There has been a run of very colorful photos! From glass to galahs. Those are gorgeous birds. Copago after studying my field guide determined the bird of prey I posted is a Swainson's Hawk in Intermediate Morph. Whatever that means.. (-8

Here's a critter I didn't know we had in Colorado. Actually from a Sanctuary where wildlife humans tried to keep as pets are homed. They have everything from lions, camels, ostriches,black bear, grizzly bears to wolves. What are some people thinking?? I don't know why they don't get the concept if you have a lion in your garage, it isn't a lion anymore. (Yes, this place rescued a starving lion from someone's garage who was being fed Whiskas cat food.) Good grief.

It is very sad Tredici and it happens all over the world. Thankfully there are sanctuaries that take in these animals or who knows what would happen to them.

Beautiful photo of a beautiful animal, Tredici.

Visiting Williamsburg, VA, happened upon a busy bee.

Living a block away till I was 5 I remember this junction from before the flyover allowed traffic to avoid the crossroads, and now the M1 motorway also reaches this spot as well. It's called Staples Corner in Cricklewood, and named after the bed factory that left some years ago. Then one of the buildings next to where it was became a Staples office supplies. It was ages before I found it was not named after the place but a huge American firm which just happened to buy a warehouse on that very site.