'Messy'' is a suggestion by wigwambam.

Now this one ought to be right up my street!

We had a big wind storm here last night. 50 mph straight line winds and almost 70 mph gusts. Came up without warning as part of an otherwise light thunderstorm. Lasted for about 15 minutes, then was gone and the sun came out. One of our trees in back got broken off at the top, trees all up and down the street lost limbs, but the worst for us was our next-door neighbor had about half of a 70 year old oak tree in his back yard break off and a good portion of it landed on his house. It was certainly a mess. The house is surprisingly well off, considering.


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Just for the fun of it, here are pics of our broken tree in back. The branches you see hanging over the little play house in the lower left half of the picture used to be at the very top of the tree.
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And here's a pic of our street right after the storm passed. You can see all the downed limbs. Most of the damage was in back yards where the older trees are. Today, every house down the entire street has a few-foot tall pile of branches on the curb.
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Lothruin, your street reminds me of the debris on our street after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Very messy!

A visit to the La Brea Tar Pits yesterday was amazing, especially the gunk and muck the paleontologists deal with while excavating fossils from the pits. Here is a shot of Pit 91, which has been actively worked on since 1969. The colored flags mark the bones of giant sloths, dire wolves, and ancient horses.



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Storms certainly do make a mess.







The mess pictured here is a storm of a different type. My daughter's room looks like a tornado went through it. But it's just the lifestyle of a messy person.

All sorts of rubbish gathers here by the sluice gates at Denver (village in UK) . I have posted an image and link to further info on this at 'photo-a-day' thread. It is very fast moving and you never know what is going to appear next....

Here we have the photos of years - nay, decades - awaiting organisation...

Oh liz you have made my day. I don't have half as many as you do.

It is sad lilyalli that people throw so much rubbish into the river.

Somebody's side yard has become quite an overgrown mess.



This reminds me of Sue's little workroom that got a tremendous clean-up job last year. I hope to be able to post a better-looking "after" shot soon.

*Blush* This is my messy craft cupboard that would fall apart if I ever tidied it. That is why I haven't.

Thanks everybody. 'Flags, Badges and Coats of Arms' is this week's theme.