Wow, snow and frost! We are still hitting the high 80s every day.

Beautiful berries, Shelley, and lovely orchids, bhs!

Thought I would add to the cloud pix.

I love orchids, bhs, and those are lovely. Shelley, I remember as a child I used to threaten to eat those berries, ; beautiful photo. Tredici, very nice sunset!

Here's ClaraSue acting like a lion in the savannah.

Great lion imitation ClaraSue!

I liked the quality of the sunlight on these trees across the road from my house, late yesterday afternoon. It only lasted a few minutes, so I was lucky to catch it.

The sky is blue, but still very cold, and yesterday's snow is still lying.
This is a scene in our local park, with Autumn (Fall) colours mixing with winter snow.

Wow - you've had snow already - is that very early? We had 39*C today and here it is 9:30pm and it's still 33.

The chook house. Home to eight chooks and a duck.

Have finally caught up with the viewing, you all post such interesting photos. Can't beleive you have frost on your windowpanes already ... my what amazing clouds spread over the evening sky ... beautiful.



one of the smaller varieties of maples, changing it's summer clothes ...

whoops, checking out the leaves closer, i think it is an oak ...

Maybe there is some truth in the rumour that David Beckham is buying Tower Bridge for his wife Victoria's Christmas present. Here it is being gift wrapped.

Some more beautiful orchids...

As Sandy and a few others liked the Highland cows here is another picture, this magnificent beast was in the village of Durnish who up until 2 summers ago still allowed them to roam. Seems they like the vistors coming to these places to see the cattle but dont like the cattle dung, so like Plockton they have now stopped them roaming free.

Tredici, that sunset is awesome!

The fall colors are gorgeous!

Those Highland cows are wonderful!

Is that a recent photo of Tower Bridge? I'm in London for a couple of days next week, and would like to see the bridge all wrapped up
Shellsie, I think you were right first time; looks more like a maple than an oak to me, but maybe your oaks have different leaves to ours. Nice photo anyway.
Finally, I don't know what a 'chook house' is either

hmmmm, what would one do with a gift-wrapped bridge anyway? The fall colors are just wonderful, everybody. Bhs, those orchids are gorgeous; did you grow them?

This little storage house is just about totally covered with vines.

Chook = chicken!
Mind you Aussie chooks are very special, I am sure!

Another autumn scene - the colours were a lovely contrast in the park this afternoon.

I think Britain was one of the last countries to build skyscrapers, a friend of mine lived at the top of one of these till a few years ago and the views across London were incredible. This was taken from the railway bridge at Primrose Hill and anyone who knows the actor Alexander Armstrong I passed him just as I'd taken this. I wanted to take a photo but he was talking on his phone and with someone so let him get on with it otherwise that may well have appeared here instead.

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And a chicken is just a baby chook!

Chicks are baby ones, Ozzz. For the longest time, even into adulthood, I didn't know what to call them other than chooks and I thought that chicken was for the baby ones, chooks for the ones that lay eggs and rooster for the boys. It took an Irishman I was working with to explain the difference and tell me that 'chook' wasn't a real word in the outside world.

Trying to find something to take a photo of. I think I've posted everything around here. Must start getting creative.

I met this handsome fellow near the river today. I suspect he was looking for lunch...

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Shellsie, I think you were right first time; looks more like a maple than an oak to me, but maybe your oaks have different leaves to ours. Nice photo anyway.

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Down here that is certainly an Oak tree. I have oaks in my front yard (shumard red oak to be exact), and my backyard neighbor has sugar maples. The maple leaves are much broader. Also, the oak has a darker bark, the maple lighter in color. There are numerous types of oaks, and some of their leaves don't look similar at all!

Maybe you could post a maple leave from you area Pic? Please? I find it very interesting to see the differences in different parts of the word, and determining what each is. Quite enlightening.

This is the non traditional view of Eliean Donan castle from the opposite side of the bridge

Love the discussion about the family group chickens. I might throw a capon into the debate and see what becomes of him.

Chicken=baby,
hen=mother,
rooster=adult male
and capon = castrated male.

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Trying to find something to take a photo of....

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How about a snap of one of the afore-mentioned chooks?

In the meantime here's one of a narrow and steep set of steps up to our holiday Gite in Cauterets earlier this year. 98 Exhausting steps at the end of an exhausting day skiing left everyone ready to keel over and sleep for a couple of hours!

I think it is a scarlet oak which is really quite different to the good old English oak tree - although we do have some in UK nowadays.

http://www.outbacknurseries.com/images/scarlet-oak.jpg