Oh wow, that's stunning, lilyalli and great composition too.

Thanks flopsy. I just wandered down to the beach in time - two minutes later and it was gone!

Thanks, szabs. And Sue, you know you're always welcome to use my photos for a card. Thank you.

Lilyalli, that is a gorgeous sunset. Love it!

Hubby and I were transporting a military vehicle from the California desert back to Pennsylvania and midway across the country I was doing a check of the vehicle when I spotted this nest tucked down in a spare tire. I felt so bad for the bird who built her nest and then couldn't find it after coming back home.

Clarasue, that butterfly is beautiful! Great picture And what did you do with the nest and the egg?

Pretty cupcakes at the crafts fair. My cousin and I shared one; it was vanilla and had dulce de leche inside. Delicious!

Liyalli wow what a sunset .
ClaraSue of all the places the birdie should choose to build a nest - me thinks ClaraSue will have a new travelling partner .

The Ritz resturant entrance

There was a discusion related to Vietnamese Pho on my team's message board, and I'd never tried it, so here is Saturday's dinner...

That sunset is a really special one Lilyalli!

Here are a selection of old and older signs in Chiswick. The H ones are for fire hydrants, one in the current style and other one of a number of different earlier ones. The old boroughs were changed in 1965 but the road name dates back way before then.

So much yummy food - not good when all I'm having is some low fat cheese spread, ryvita and lettuce.....

Re sunset photo - thanks for all the nice comments. We don't get many like that. I am lucky to live in the only place on the east coast where the sun sets over the sea!

How about a matched pair of stunning sunsets? The mountain version to go along with the beach.

*gasp* beautiful!
nd Lilly's too.

Has been great to catch up with your pics - nice work everyone!

This theatre is home to the hit Abba musical Mamma Mia, highly recommended is better then the film.

I often come across old cars but recently they've all looked new like this Rover. Of course once they only looked like this but now they're a rarity.

A wickedly good show and a air condionted theatre to boot.

Weird sky when we have typhoons.

Strange clouds, indeed Ren!

Some rather heavy looking geese trying to gain height (they'd been feeding in the field non-stop all day). It's blurred as taken through not very clean screen.

Professer, I think you've been to as many musicals here in a week than I have in my whole life!

Here's another underground train (OK, it's overground but most of the line isn't) in Burnt Oak near me.

Tidy desk (mine).

A tidy desk? Oh, Ren... I'm envious!

This is in Pittsburgh:

Well sat to make the trip from Inverness worthwhile did 10 shows in 6 days. And saying that i should point out i have seen 10 musicals in Glasgow/Edinburgh in the past 5 years as well.



For thos who wondered if June Brown does anything else other then Eastenders heres some proof lol

Tredici, I know Colorado has some gorgeous sunsets and that one is spectacular! Kapuskasing, LOL!

Not one to know flowers (or weeds, which I think this is), I don't know the name of this bloom. It had a diameter of approx. 2 inches and had a single stem with no leaves growing in a field in southern Texas.

Is it a rain lily?

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Hickory nuts litter the woods every fall, but I never tried eating them until this year, and they are so good! They're related to pecans, and taste like them but are even better.

This shows the stages of preparation -- whole hickories in the foreground, not yet open. The ones in the center are ready to hull, and on the right are empty hulls. The unopened nuts, which are in the back, need a solid thwack from a hammer to crack open, and then the meat has to be pried out with a pick. The little pile of nut meat on the left is from two nuts. A lot of effort, perhaps, but it makes a pleasant evening porch activity.

The two nuts on the back right are black walnuts, which are a much messier endeavor to hull, and I haven't started on them yet.

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A rare sight, hence the pic.
Yes that's a rain lily I am pretty sure, aren't they lovely?
Great nuts Kapuskasing!

I was sorta sad this week (even though I basically asked for it). We'd heard that they were to be tearing down the junior high school (or middle school, some call them) that we'd attended in the 1970s. Why they picked September 11, 2009 to start this demolition is still a mystery to many of the locals over there (and the former locals over here, too ), but ... anyway, me and my friend drove over to have a look. The picture I got spotlights the weirdness of it, that day. There's a chunk of the building still standing on the left, and another on the right. But (yikes!) they were going after the middle of the place with no mercy. Kinda stabbing, though, to see the old hallways ripped to shreds like that. The walls of the auditorium and gymnasium easy to view, and looking pretty much (or so we tried to remember them) like they did --- but now being torn down and in recognizable pieces. Times change, and the past is the past, I guess. And the new building (which I HAD to find, and see how it measured up ) is pretty spectacular. So it goes, I reckon. I'll never get used to being this "old". Luckily? No one else who was there watching them gut this building that day was any more "used" to being that, either .

Cannot remember the name of these flying ladies, but apparently a london landmark, maybe Satguru will be able to help

Gary, I think the closest I can get to compete with you is when I went to Hull for a few days and went to the cinema every day. No, I know it doesn't compare...

If anyone wants to know what to expect if they go to Temple Fortune this is a typical view of their houses and roads.

Another London scene a road without vehicles