Another of the local pedestrian bollards.

All together now.. awwww...

This little bloke lives just down the road from me, together with a lot of his family.

The camellias next to the kerria. Someone has to pick up all the fallen flowers sooner or later, it might be me.

Someplace to put footwear before entering a holy place?

Good guess! Not correct and not close.

I've never seen anything like it before but maybe a place to start for racing pigeons?

A holder for funerary urns? It looks like a couple of places are occupied already.

OR

28 holes- is it some sort of calendar?

Vines in the aforementioned shoe shop...

I like Ozz's guess for the urns, Ren?

Someone has a sense of humour in the Outback
(on the Barrier Highway from Wilcannia to Broken Hill)

I think it's something that was once used for keeping bees

Copago: lol on the "shark"

Jakeroo has it. It is a very famous and unique store for bee skeps. Well known in Gloucestershire, it is in fact situated in Hartpury Agricultural College.It seems old but is in fact 19th Century. Here's the story
Well done!

Land Shark!

Just one of the birds from the Rutland Falconry and Owl Centre. A few more to follow.

Ren: Really? well that's cool. I'd have never guessed bees except that ozzzzzzz noticed that two of the niches had something in them, which to me looked like the wicker thingies my greatgrandmother made. She tended bees until age 96 in Saskatchewan. She died at age 97.

ertrum: LOL loved those SNL skits

RMG: he/she is a beauty! Can't wait for more.

This is a filly named Bailey, born on April 8, 2011! Her mom is called Kahlua, and is one of the horses my daughter rode to a championship a few years ago.

I have really been enjoying the photos this month. I love the painted bollards. What a great idea!

Ren, my guess was the same as Ozzz’s - would never have guessed it was to do with bees.

Loved the land shark (it brought back memories of watching “Saturday Night Live” back in the early 1980s when I lived in California).

Am loving all the horse pictures too.




At the end of last month, I posted some pictures I took at the Underwater Observatory in Busselton which is situated at the end of the jetty. This is a photograph of the beginning of the jetty where the visitor information centre, museum and ticket booth are located.

Turtley photogenic...

Fabulous turtle pic!

This is the Visitor's Center in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The chimneys caught my attention -- I'd not seen bricks used like that before.

Would chimneys be a good theme ?

Oh, yes, I like the idea of chimneys as a theme!

Here's another from the Falconry Centre

Lovely bird pics, RMG.

An office building I came across after taking a wrong turn this morning.

Beautiful pictures everyone

Golfmom - AWWWWWW how adorable is Bailey and Kahlua!!

Ozzz - Love your little bloke, would really like to see the rest of his family.

Romeo - Your bird pics are wonderful


These guys blocked the road for a little while, as they came towards me, at a nice slow pace.

Love that pic, Szabs -- it looks like the front cow is carrying the bell in her mouth!

Thank you. I'm saving the best till last.

My scooter, or, as I like to call it - the moo-ped.

Very stylish! I lined one of my car interiors with yellow fur once and the fashion seems to have stopped soon after that. I think I get half a mark for pigeons, as animals with wings was relatively close, maybe?

Here's a rather nice country road in Headley more or less in the middle of nowhere, Surrey.

Like the furry scooter and the cattle on the road brought back memories of the fifties and sixties when such sights were fairly common here.
Yellow rose today taken on a bad weather day

Even though it rained today (and thundered), Precious wanted to go outside and chase her stick. This involves me turning in circles and dragging the stick for her to chase. Needless to say, I get dizzy and am happy to take a break when she catches it, as she has here. She also has her eye on a robin across the road...

Continuing my current fixation on novelty pedestrian bollards;
This one guards the pedestrian underpass to the Newport rail station, and commemorates the heavy industry that one thrived locally at Newport's Railway Workshops.