Your last owl shot is my favourite, RMG! Gorgeous pic.

This last weekend was the annual Goat Muster. I think I post pics each year. It's a day at Wanaaring (middle of nowhere) and they do bike races for the kids and then various 'goat' events like "catch and tie" and milk the nanny. It's great fun and a day that we'll go to all sorts of lengths to get to. There had been some rain and a 200km stretch of the trip took 6 hours. It was a shocker with wet slippery sloppy roads. Not a great pic but I hope you get the idea

Higham's Hill in Surrey, right next to Biggin Hill

I missed this one, so there is one last one after this.

Taken on the way to Matheran, a small hill station near Bombay. No vehicles are allowed there so you can either take a small train or trek up.

Wonderful view. I watched a TV program not too long ago about some of the hill stations served by a railway. It all went back to colonial times but the people that worked on the line were so committed to keeping it going it was a joy to watch.

What more could a Birthday Boy want than a new bike?

... With airbags, yet!

Safety first! lol

Copago: YUCK! Don't know how you manage!

Zorba: that picture makes me go "oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" : )

Earlier, someone had posted a pic about seagulls and their ability to drink seawater. Here's one that preferred chlorine with no salt in the infinity pool

Theatre Royal Newcastle
Closed at the moment while the inside is refurbished back to its former glory. That is what the 2 posters refer to.

How lovely that building is. If it were here it would have been pulled down long ago to make way for another glass/concrete monstrosity.

My sort of 1960s house in Wallington

My newest fabric art -- Playing Marbles

That is impressive, bhs63! I also love the old Theatre building.

My friend's store seems to be ready for Easter!

Last of the owls I'm afraid. If we go back to the sanctuary I'll take more.

Now for a few photos through the bus window on the 37 hour journey from San Francisco to Lubbock....



Snow on the mountains between San Bernadino and Indio, California.

the truck the next morning.

Easter is here.

A country road in a village called Fickleshole. Search me why it's called that.

Several years ago we went to visit friends in Leyburn. It's right in the middle of Wensleydale, otherwise known as 'Herriot Country'. This picture, one of several I took, is of the River Ure running over Aysgarth Falls.

Some young emus running across the road

Those young emus must have only recently outgrown their juvenile longitudinal stripes. Interesting to note that the male parent broods the eggs and raises the chicks while Mumma struts her stuff elsewhere.





A detail from the wall I posted recently. Aussies, altogether now,
"Ya canna hand a man a grander spanner."

This is Rodney:



Rodney guards the tea rooms at a local stately home. I know he's called Rodney, he told me to "say hello, Rodney".

Cracking picture. Which Stately Home? "Hello Rodney".

Coton Manor, it's just up the road from me, or just down the road from Naseby - take your pick, according to which you think is more famous.

A particularly nice view in Chesham

Satguru, that really is a beautiful view. It looks so quiet and peaceful.

Andrea, interesting procession. I would like to see it some time.

Another part of Aysgarth Falls in full flow.

"Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England - now!"

Browning sent me in search of a quintessential English spring flower yesterday, and I found quite a lot of them, albeit in a beechwood:

Absolutely stunning picture. You've caught the light wonderfully. What camera did you use?

Thanks.

I have a Nikon D40X which when I bought it three or four years ago was the greatest thing since sliced bread... now there are super duper models which can do everything except wash socks but my D40X does do brilliant colour so I'm sticking with it. (And with my bank balance, lol.)