Welcome to the new month. I will leave the old thread open for a while for catcherups. Feb was awesome BTW.

Houghtons Winery in the Swan Valley - it's a great place to have a picnic, do some wine tasting, meet friends etc.

Love that place. Had their classic white last night!

I shall start with a Timaru sunrise before heading back overseas.

Gosh, Aaron, that is lovely~!

An Ischian natural sauna (built on a hot spring...)

Now I can post directly from Flickr I can trawl the archives on days where I've taken nothing new (I carry the camera wherever I go during daylight hours just in case). This is Harrow on the Hill taken from the north side. For some reason it wouldn't let me post the usual size so it's a bit smaller.


Harrow Hill N by satguru, on Flickr

Fat juicy little crab-apples, just waiting for me to make jelly.

The Bombay Municipal Headquarters

Some typical British woodlands in Cuffley north of London

A cemetery in the USA

great start to March!!



Here is my son's latest craze .. beyblades. A glorified spinning top that he seems to love spending his money on!

Sorry Mehaul that I didnt see this posting before. Your description of Semana Santa (Easter) is spot on, an even bigger rivalry occurs between the cities of Sevilla and Malaga, as they both proclaim to have the biggest and the best processions in Spain. Easter processions take place for eight consecutive days, and on average there are about 10 brotherhoods who parade each day, each procession takes about 7 to 9 hours in which the penitents walk behind the throne, (the thrones are the images of Christ and the Virgin Mary), each throne weighs several hundred kilos, and is carried by a group of men who bare the weight on their shoulders. Processions normally start at dusk and some are still out on the streets at 6am, needless to say the centre of the cities are closed, and virtually everything stops in Spain during Easter, as every single town no matter how big or small will have some kind of processions throughout the week.

I must say that one of my favourite themes of photography is Semana Santa.

Here is a group of real penitents, and not a little plastic one.

The photos so far this month are wonderful!

The Semana Santa penitents do look eerily like KKK members, even though I know that they're not. Why are they masked? (and why do their masks rise to such a high point?)

Obviously I am a massive Agatha Christie fan (the screen-name pretty much gives it away! ) and I entered a online competition last year, to win every book published by Agatha Christie - 84 in total! And believe it or not, I won it, and all the books are nice and tidy on my shelves, together with the audio cd's to accompany them (which I brought myself). This is a photo of just a few of the books, in the large parcel. So plenty of reading to do
(sorry I haven't been posting pics, Photobucket has been problematic with me, but loving all the photos )

Congrats Jane! Now you'll have enough reading material to last you the rest of 2011.

I thought one more New Zealand photo before my trip continues. Here we are are looking up Otago Harbour towards Dunedin as the sun sets behind the hills.

Got the same flickr problem as David, the older photos are refusing to be posted in the 640x480 size....

Congratulations Jane - that's wonderful!

Web in the mist



No sign of owner probably out for a spin somewhere

That is stunning, Gees!
Congrats Jane .. perfect prize for you

This is from lego land .. the stuff at the bottom of the pic is how it all starts.

Ah, Lego. A bit after my childhood but my daughter loved it, as does my grandson.
He also loves Thomas and His Friends, hence the decoration for his 4th Birthday cake.



For any Thomas aficionados, the locomotive is Sir Handel, and the carriages are of the Sodor Supply Company.

Jane, that's a perfect competition to win. We can look forward to more Christie quizzes from you.

Howie, I love the colours in your photo.

Auntie, I hope Harrison had a lovely birthday. I never thought of trains on a cake!

Today, I am posting a picture of a *nice* dog...
This is Mika, one of my clients.



Butu is *not* a nice dog tonight. He bit through my broadband connection....

Oh Baaaaaad Butu! Norty!! I am not sure I want to meet him in April any more.

I'm using the new size setting on Flickr I used on Photobucket but still looks like the small one. I'll have to investigate.

Some typical British countryside in Redbourn, actually an entrance to a waterworks but you can't see it from here. Ignore the ghost in the corner, it comes out when it's a sunny day but is quite harmless.

This squirrel gave us a real telling off yesterday when he thought Precious was going to climb his utility pole, and then to make matters worse, his tree!

More squirrels

Today Maynooth, coolcat90 and I went to Cottesloe Beach to see the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition. It's an annual event which started in 2005 and, along with the Bondi Beach exhibition, the largest outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Australia.

Some of the pieces were wonderful and others...well...let's just say, to each his own. I neither liked nor disliked this piece, but I thought it made a great frame for the Cottesloe groyne and three ships out to sea.