Welcome all. We will be hard put to it to do as well as we did in August! Sensational photos all. Here goes for September!

Glad you're on the ball, Ren!

Here is a shot across the crops - I loved the clouds.





Here is a bit of self indulgence .. last week we had aerial photos taken by a professional photographer called Peter Bellingham and here is a link to one of them. We have only seen the shots on the web so far and can't picked up the framed ones til we go to town next. They're sitting at a relatives who keeps telling me how great they are This photo we had the lake cropped from the top of the photo (as it's not on our property but it's oh so close) and had it blown up to 1.1m x 56cm. Can't wait to get it. aerial shot

Loved both the photos, Copagao. Waiting to see more.

We were driving through some lonely country roads when we had to stop for this train.

Gosh that is amazing, Jill. Isn't it huge?

The floral clock at Niagara, unfortunately with lots of power lines too....

Reminds me of this morning...


Darn - missed the butterfly again. They are very quick little things.

Great shots, Copago! Nice flowers as well, Chavs and Howie.

Taking a small break from my Bali photos, here is one I took on my walk by the river today. Literally got with in an arm's length of this large and quite handsome fellow, he didn't seem to mind at all. He didn't want to pose for a photo, though. Photo taken on my iPod.

I see we are going to start September with great photos. Just like every other month.

This dude overlooks the city of Rapid City, South Dakota. He resides on top of a big hill in a city park called Dinosaur Park. The dinosaurs were constructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. In addition to this guy, they also have a triceratops, stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus and three other dinosaurs for kids to play on and people to take pictures of. The apatosaurus in the picture is 80 feet long.

Love the pelican Daniel and the dinosaur Gary

Scotney Castle viewed from the path on the way down to it

Every time I see your photos of it, I just have to go!It looks so lovely

September is off to a great start! Beautiful flowers and I really like the pelican shot. Amazing how close you can get to them. I have a few closeup shots of a few.

Jill, when you get more of the aerial shots, I'd love to see them. Your life and property seems so thrilling to me. I am not a city girl and have lived out in the sticks or near it most of my life so your station would seem like a dream come true to me.

Yesterday I posted a photo of the tortoise that showed up on my patio. After an hour or so nap, he took off back across the desert. I've never seen a tortoise move so fast...he was practically running (as fast as a tortoise can run, that is ) I guess his nap gave him a fresh start to wherever he was heading. Here he (or she) stopped before crossing our road to pose prettily.

Ren, you would love it. It is so pretty and the gardens are spectacular, mainly wooded but a couple of nice herbaceous borders as well.

ClaraSue, please excuse my ignorance, but do you have native tortoises in Arizona, or would he have been imported and escaped from somewhere?

Christinap, Arizona does have native tortoises. The one that took refuge on my patio is, as near as I can tell, the Sonoran Desert Tortoise.

Testing the new camera I had to try Golders Green

Thanks, I never knew that

I just love looking at the photographs! They are so 'global' amd some of them are breathtaking! A fantastic array of subjects. This has to be my fave thread on the forums! The amount of photos posted on the August thread was phenomenal and by the way it's going September will prove to be just as good!

Happy snapping!

Great photos so far! I love the creatures

Here is a very big watermelon, that won a prize at the fair.

Found growing wild in the woods.

Now that is what you call a watermelon!

Zorba scank - that is so pretty, any idea what it is?

Only page one, and barely into day two, and already such a variety of photos. I have to agree with demurechicky!

Satguru, that looks to be a lovely new camera! Great clarity and brightness. I am feeling jealous.

Time for 2 or 3 photos from Hamilton, Ontario though these ones are not very good. This is part of Dundurn Castle, home of Sir Allan Napier MacNab, one of Canada's first premiers. It was completed in 1835.

That IS a big watermelon.

Here is the open cut gold mine in the Black Hills. It is 1/2 mile across and 1200 feet deep. Homestake Mining began operations during the Black Hills gold rush in the late 1870s. It continued to operate until 2002 when it just became too uneconomical to continue.



To me, it is very sad to look at these great big holes in the ground amongst all the beauty of the Black Hills.

Some wonderful photos here!

It might not be 'the old gum tree', but this kookaburra was quite content sitting on this sign at Silvan Reservoir (near Melbourne) yesterday....

You may recall I had a tree come down in the garden that I had a couple of roses growing up. Well, I saved the roses, filled in the hole, put weed supressing membrane down, edged it off and covered it all with bark chippings. The trunk has been sawn into four, two of which have been treated and are in front of the shed. The other two will join them and I'll put tubs of some sort on them. Hopefully when the roses grow completely over the support and the tubs are in place it'll make a nice little feature next summer.

Love the kookaburra Mike. Gary, I agree it is a shame to scar the landscape with holes like that, but they do have a sort of stark beauty of their own. Are there any plans to do anything with them. Don't know if you are familiar with it but the Eden Project in Cornwall grew out of old china clay pits which were just as big a scar on the landscape as your open cast mining holes.