The apples havn't done well this year, too wet when pollination should have happened, but we have quite a decent plum crop.





Love that sunset ClaraSue, we rarely get really good ones here.

This was a church in Lancaster Gate till the 70s when it had to be demolished and they kept the spire and built a block of flats around it.

Earlier this summer I saw this coyote walk right up to where we were parked at Ft. Irwin, California and crawl under a truck next to us. He didn't come out so I sneaked out and found him sound asleep under it in the shade.

How lovely, and what a great moment to be able to grab a photo of.

Seen on the way to the supermarket Sunday afternoon

awww - great shot. Are the coyotes normally as tame as that?
Lovely deer shot too!

Remember all the sheep sh .. err manure I dug (and dug and dug)? .. well, this is my reward



'Twas Mulga Bill from Eagle Hawk that caught the cycling craze!!

Nice bike but I think that I would rather have a motor on mine.

Some critters have no shame... These were eating our roses in broad daylight.


But they were young, so I guess I've got to make allowances.

Maybe I took the thread title too literally.

No market today (Saturday at the time) probably as they were preparing for the Notting Hill carnival the following day, the beginning of Portobello Road

Jill, the coyotes hardly show any fear of humans at all because people will feed them when they're not supposed to; unfortunately they end up sometimes "feeding" on their cats and small dogs, too. Great bike, by the way!

A neat spider web really showed up on the grass when the early morning dew hit it. Unfortunately, when I tried to zoom in, it blurred and you couldn't tell what it was. And I'm not getting any closer to a spider if I can help it.

There were reports yesterday of a lion on the loose in Essex. After sending out two helicopters and 30 armed officers it was decided that what the tourists had seen was in fact a large domestic cat! Just in case they happen to be looking in - this is a lion

LOL, Christinap, when I saw your photo, I thought for sure you were going to say he was right outside your door!

Oh dear, imagine if he had been! I think I'd have been too busy trying to find somewhere to hide to take a photo of him.

My mother grew up near there; her father was the local farrier-come-smallholder-come-oyster-poacher... I bet he'd have loved to add lion-tamer to his repertoire.

Great shot of the lion, Christina.

I haven't been able to post for the last few months as we were busy getting our house renovated and things were just too messy but I've enjoyed going through the threads.

We're in the middle of the monsoons so here are some wild flowers.

I shall make this the last of the Bronx Zoo photos and i think you should all know who this is.

Toilet training for Fred isn't going according to plan. Maybe we should have taught him to lift the lid first.

I know someone who had a cat which used the normal toilet which was very useful as they lived in a flat. He was already doing that before they got him.

I found a little pond in Delaware last month that had a bunch of water lilies. I may bore you with all the pictures I took of them.

Most houses from Lancaster Gate here to Kensington are pretty much like these

I had a little help making the bed this morning

Yeah, looks like Suzy was LOTS of "help"

She likes to have her input into the daily chores!

That kind of help is always so much fun!

Even though it was my birthday, Precious was miffed to discover that the gift bags did not contain anything for her!