Here is one of the many coaches from Victoria heading north through Golders Green, often to the M1 motorway near me. For some reason there's no destination up so anyone waiting at the stop will have to ask. Otherwise they could easily end up in Barnsley rather than Hull. Personally I'd stay where I was...

I'm back, my hard drive crashed and I lost everything. Thankfully I do back up so I only lost a few items. So here is a photo I took while out walking in our area.




It's a Yellow headed blackbird. There is a wetland area very close to our house and I got some nice photos of the flora and fauna. More to come.

If you'd like to see a larger photo click on the link below:

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t84/mrreb/largebird.jpg

Five of my favorite teddies.
Heeheehe.

This dear old boy waits near the bus stop every morning at 6 oclock for his dad to get off night duty. It is hot by then so he is quite dozey. He is a real sweetie.

Well I'm going to take some pictures of Buenos Aires because I don't really like the ones I have now. But I read Sue's instructions on how to post a picture so I decided to give it a try.



This is my cat Kiara. My mom and I were playing Scrabble and she decided to join in

I gather that Kiara won the game? Cute photo!

Oh, yes! She's gotten very good at it

Oh dear,lol! You will have to start playing on line and not tell her the url. What a cutie she is.

Lol! Thanks, ren

I did take some photos today, but none suitable for posting here (without permission from others, at least ), so I have fallen back of this shot of "Sunset on the River" that I took in Ottawa at the beginning of the month.

Wow, that's a very good picture, picquero! The Casa Rosada is a very nice building. I think it needs to be repainted, the current paint is wearing out, but it's still nice nonetheless. Since you were in that square, you must have seen dozens of pigeons flying around. There are always many, many pigeons around Plaza de Mayo square and it's great to see when someone feeds them, you will see a big grey circle on the floor and all the pigeons trying to get a piece of bread or whatever food people give them

Edited to add: Liz, that's a beautiful sunset.

Love the elephants Jane!
Oh dear PF no purple bears?
Lovely cat MP - keep it up, we are waiting for the B.A. pictures.



Well this is the last photo taken at Harnas (some of you will be pleased). Of course I saved the best for last! This is 'Goeters', which means 'Things'. I have no idea where he got the name from but do know he was raised as Marilese's(daughter of the oweners) pet. If I remember correctly he used to live in the house and sleep on her bed.
He is quite famous and has starred in a couple of movies. I tried to find out which ones but no luck. I do know he starred in 'Beyond Borders' with Angelina Jolie but sadly he is not credited for it on IMDB.

Final "Holiday photo". This is in Topsham, a small village/town

Kiara is beautiful, Minkpenny.

So is the yellow-headed blackbird, Argus: I never knew there was such a creature.

Hope you had a good time in Devon, Jane: thanks for a nice variety of pics.

Lots of nineteenth-century Brits had themselves sculpted in Roman togas, but this is the only one I know who preferred to appear in his dressing-gown. Thomas Carlyle sits in a nice homely pose on the embankment at Chelsea in London, a few yards from his old house in Cheyne Row.

I love all these interesting shots of yours TT . I am longing to get to England again now, so I can go and see all the places you mention.Yes, Jane , you made me think of Devon again, thanks for that. (sob,sniff)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
the local gardeners seem to have a penchant for doing weird twistie things to trees;here is another example.

My grandson pitching a winning baseball game.

He looks good, bhs! Well done, that pitcher!

Here's another from my Ottawa trip, this time of the canal.

I'm loving all the photos!

It's not til next week but guess who got a new bike for his birthday?

Looks like he's having a ball, Copago.

One grandkid down, two more to go.

My granddaughter at her piano recital. She played so beautifully that I teared up.

So what about the two-wheeler Jillian, did he give up on that one?

When I looked out this morning I also saw some 'nice clouds', the sun was making them look rather pretty so I took my camera out into the garden. I couldn't see what I was taking as it was rather bright so I just took several one after another and looked at them once I came back indoors. What amazed me was the difference a minute made to the formation.



This one was taken about a minute later!

Ottawa looks like a very attractive city, Liz.

This is another statue from the Embankment - commemorating Samuel Plimsoll who came up with the idea of the load-line on ships.

I promised you a picture of a faithful furry friend. This bear is (originally enough ) Big Ted, and he was got for me, by a extra special Aunt, almost 29 years ago, when I had my ears pinned back. This bear has been in hospital with me during cleft palate operations (none which completely worked) and is a extra special bear He's also been stitched together coutless times