Today in pictures

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Love that sky in no 4. We haven't had any rain at all today, amazing.

The sun was shining on me as I took this picture, but it came across like a dark curtain.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Fabulously loaded skies....love the stones too in No19 you have an artistic eye. Lovely, keep up the good work and the walks are good for you too!! K already sent before!
A bit of our sunshine - though the drammatic skies of Lankyshire take some beating!

Glad you like the views, I didn't set off to go there, more by default, I used to do some work up there about 40 years ago. Splitting stone for crazy paving, it was all the rage then.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by davemac

Glad you like the views, I didn't set off to go there, more by default, I used to do some work up there about 40 years ago. Splitting stone for crazy paving, it was all the rage then.

Breaking rocks? -Hope you didn't have a ball and chain!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Like Dianne.....I love the standing stones picture......very Bronte-ish(if that makes sense).
I hope some of these will find their way onto Flickr......The thistle, the slug, the brooding sky (first pic) and the standing stones are all.....well, outstanding and should be given a wider audience.
Well done that man......have a putty medal.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Like Dianne.....I love the standing stones picture......very Bronte-ish(if that makes sense).
I hope some of these will find their way onto Flickr......The thistle, the slug, the brooding sky (first pic) and the standing stones are all.....well, outstanding and should be given a wider audience.
Well done that man......have a putty medal.

Yes, well said Margaret , "brooding" that's the word... "Heathcliff"!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes...brooding with a hint of menace.
We are singing from the same hymn sheet...and in the same church too.
I would love to do the walks that Dave does(in clement weather though)...but my other half gets quite 'twitched' if I suggest going to some of these isolated places....he tells me that it is no place for a daft elderly person to be out on their own(you can see he has a high opinion of me).....I could fall, break a leg...or worse...my camera!
Yes...I would be quite upset to break my camera. My leg would heal, but my camera would have to be replaced.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes...brooding with a hint of menace.
We are singing from the same hymn sheet...and in the same church too.
I would love to do the walks that Dave does(in clement weather though)...but my other half gets quite 'twitched' if I suggest going to some of these isolated places....he tells me that it is no place for a daft elderly person to be out on their own(you can see he has a high opinion of me).....I could fall, break a leg...or worse...my camera!
Yes...I would be quite upset to break my camera. My leg would heal, but my camera would have to be replaced.

These days a mobile phone is a life-line - go for it Margaret! Either that or team up with Dave!!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Ah yes...a mobile phone. Mine is in my handbag(I never take this or money on my walks) invariably switched off......have had £20 credit on it since the beginning of the year.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Teaming up with Dave........we would be fighting over the best shots.
He is the opposition, in the nicest possible sense.
I think photography is a solitary pursuit. I know I once mentioned to a neighbour that I was going to Manchester to take pictures of the Architecture(and anything else which took my fancy). She said she would come with me. I snook out and caught an earlier bus rather than tell her I wanted to go on my own.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Teaming up with Dave........we would be fighting over the best shots.
He is the opposition, in the nicest possible sense.
I think photography is a solitary pursuit. I know I once mentioned to a neighbour that I was going to Manchester to take pictures of the Architecture(and anything else which took my fancy). She said she would come with me. I snook out and caught an earlier bus rather than tell her I wanted to go on my own.

Margaret, I do that all the time. I hate going anywhere with someone when I have an aim in mind - which I usually do. I much prefer my own company. But if I do go somewhere with someone, I usually have a good time - but a different time than I would have had on my own.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes....I totally understand that. I like my own company too......solitude is good for arranging your thoughts....and you can change your mind on exactly where you are heading for, without spoiling someone elses plans.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by susie123

I like these cobbles - in Bruges, one of my favourite cities. The cobbles slow the city centre traffic down which makes for a relaxed pace. Thought you might like the bikes, Margaret.

Very fond of Belgium as a whole, beer and food especially!

Cobbles and Bikes - Bruges | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

It seems we are all wrong - despite the k, for which many thanks Dianne.

Cobbles are technically the rounded pebbles which are so difficlt to walk on. Everything else like we have in Lancs, Bruges and elsewhere are setts - and not the badger kind.

Cobblestone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Breaking rocks? -Hope you didn't have a ball and chain!

It felt like it, I was out of my apprenticeship, and did a couple of years working for a landscape gardener, as the youngest I was left up there with a hammer and bolster to split the large stones along the grain

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Like Dianne.....I love the standing stones picture......very Bronte-ish(if that makes sense).
I hope some of these will find their way onto Flickr......The thistle, the slug, the brooding sky (first pic) and the standing stones are all.....well, outstanding and should be given a wider audience.
Well done that man......have a putty medal.

Flicker have told me my allowance for this month has been used, so should reset tomorrow. I do have a backlog to upload first, but I do have a folder on my desktop I put them in until I can get them uploaded, so they are on the list.
Did you notice the slug, you can see right down its breathing orifice, its wet knees as well as wet socks. Its no wonder I've got withering heights

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Teaming up with Dave........we would be fighting over the best shots.
He is the opposition, in the nicest possible sense.
I think photography is a solitary pursuit. I know I once mentioned to a neighbour that I was going to Manchester to take pictures of the Architecture(and anything else which took my fancy). She said she would come with me. I snook out and caught an earlier bus rather than tell her I wanted to go on my own.

I don't think we are in opposition Mrs.P., I think of it as master and apprentice, you have been pursuing flicker a lot longer than I have, and it was you that nudged me into uploading my pictures.
When I can walk on the rice paper without leaving a mark, I will then be ready to leave the temple, until then, I defer to your judgment.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

It seems we are all wrong - despite the k, for which many thanks Dianne.

Cobbles are technically the rounded pebbles which are so difficlt to walk on. Everything else like we have in Lancs, Bruges and elsewhere are setts - and not the badger kind.

Cobblestone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think the term cobbles got moved over to rounded pebbles when they became fashionable, but cobbles have always been the name we gave to the granite and sandstone sets that were laid as road material.


And the term cobblers was a derivitive from the term cobbles. It has its base in the solid rubber tyres of bycycles, and the men going downhill at speed on their way to work on a cobbled road, and damaging the male anatomy.


I almost beleive it myself.