Another view from my friend's flat in Finchley looking over to Hampstead Heath

A horse (of course)

More azaleas

The first pictures of spring in my mum's garden. I'm not sure what the yellow flowers are and forgot to ask.

High tide on a Spring morning

That yellow flower is a Kerria, part of the Japonica family.

Angel Island, where Chinese immigrants were processed in the early 20th century, as seen from Alcatraz.

Thanks flopsymopsy, I realised when I got home I forgot to ask its name but knew I'd find out here and also got an ID on Flickr without even needing to ask! I'm better with insects than plants myself and quite a few of those turn up in photos needing names as well.

Tunisian shoe shop...

Guess what it is?

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.