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had a wander down bash lines this afternoon .. it wasn't too muddy .. ok the tedsters owner might not have been to happy we were relegated to going in the back door instead of the front .... he wasn't too clean .. neither was I but still .. anyway im glad I went down .. the heron was visiting the lodges again .. and the babies were on the bank with daddy goose watching carefully ..

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Accy Cricket Club suffers massive storm damage this week.

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A few randoms today

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A few from an after tea walk in a bit of rare sunshine.

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Great shots...love number 4....and number 6 floats my boat too.

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Leeds/Liverpool Canal today, but where?

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A few randoms. No. 1 is the update on the snowdrops. I know you were all waiting for this one.:D The others are of my neighbour's yard ... she has the greenest of thumbs ... along with Sophie, her fierce guard dog.

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That hound looks mighty fierce

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Yup ... thank god she has a sturdy fence.

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It is a 'Mouse hound' Frank:).

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Oh come on ... she's just a baby. Not quite five months. Just wait till she puts on a few ounces; they're going to need a stronger fence.:D

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Wonderful scenery!

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Well worth getting moist for, I'd say davemac :)
I'm getting 'scent memories' from your photos and descriptions.

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Cats do 'blissed out' so well, don't they? heh heh

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Nice capture of the heron :)

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Max is looking quite pleased with himself :)

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Lovely shots! Number two is priceless :)

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Some really nice ones there, Frank. Great capture of the cormorant with fish!

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I'm just getting caught up with my favourite Accy Web thread... great photos everyone! I've been out and about and taking pictures, yet haven't had the where-withall to do anything with them until today.

Spring over here in southern Ontario has been one of extremes. Late starting, then coming on like gangbusters many of us were fooled into planting our annuals early. Me included! Then came frost, followed by bouts of 30 degree heat, followed by more frost. Then drought, then deluges of rain. Still, the display of blossoms was wonderful, and I managed to immerse myself as much as I could.

Last week I went up to Ottawa (a good six hour drive) with my 89 year old aunt to visit my mother and sister. I meant to get some shots there, but dealing with the 'battling grannies' left me too exhausted :(

I'll post shots over the next couple of days until I'm caught up.

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Great variety

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I agree....they are lovely......my fave has to be the alpaca's.

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He used to have alpacas at Higher Brox Farm, but they all died.

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Some from Abberfraw

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the pics from today ... :D

1. lurking ..
2. lurking part 2 ...
and the rest the accy food festival ..

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Today was a return to The Valley of Stone, a walk around the outside of Jamestone and Troy Quarries, starting and finishing at Clough Head car park.

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Number 4 is my fave.....but they are all good.

Jen, those cakes on the patisserie stall...well, they look delicious. I am glad I didn't go to the food fair.....the temptation might just have been too much for me.
I still haven't had any cake...so the longing is still with me.

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Been quire some time since i have posted, thought i would post a few of my fav pics i have taken since being on

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Love those pics.......especially the mono one.

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1. A homeless man in Lisbon,Portuga May 2015
2. My grandson Thomas a xmas
3. A Bedouin child in Egptian desert Feb 2015

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Pendle Hill has been beckoning me for a while so this afternoon I headed off up there hoping to get a glimpse of the Peregrine I saw a while back.

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Wow! Lovely shots...love number 8

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Great pics of the peregrine

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Thanks Margaret.

Thanks Max, also took a short video..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSg...r#action=share

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Powerful shots

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Wow and double Wow!

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That's the one that looks just like me after a nite on the booze and the dope.:alright:

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My day in pictures post is also bringing to your attention the Accrington Welfare for the blind society.
No 1. Equipment for the visually impaired at Bank Street.
No 2. Our newly refurbished social room which we have named after Ken Hargreaves who was out "hands on" president up to his death.
No 3. A customer having a scanner/reader demonstrated.
No 4 and 5. Our new book shop in the Arndale selling books donated and the proceeds to go to the Blind Society.
No 6 and 7. I try to take a photo of a customer each week and pin it up calling it " Customer of the week", if your face appears there is a spare copy available.


No 8 and 9. My opium den.

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Today was the day I decided to tiptoe around the turbines, and do you know whilst I was there not one turbine rotated, it was only when I had finished and was heading for the car that I heard them starting to rotate.

1. It was a day for cloudscapes, so had a play with a graduated filter.
2. Cotton Grass is punctuating the moors with a million full stops. Despite its name it is actually a sedge, and a sign that the land is more than a bit moist.
3. Standing guard over the town below.
4. Standing on the edge of the borough, down there is Rossendale.
5.This wall runs along the edge of Ossy Moors, stopping the invaders.
6. The clouds make me think I may get moist at any moment, then it dawns on me I am kneeling down in the peaty wet bits.
7. The clouds are starting to look a bit menacing.
8. This is the only tree I can see on the top of the moors for miles, I don't think it will ever get big enough to climb.
9. They are just starting to make rotation commencement noises, and as I am on my own up here(well almost) it does feel a bit spooky.
10. That is the way down to the car, and I can feel the large drops of rain hitting my ARP helmet, time to shift.

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Weekend Wales.

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Just trying my new camera that I picked up yesterday

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What improvements have you noticed Max?

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Quite a lot. The main difference my old camera was 14 Megapixels, this one is 24 Megapixels. I'm still playing with the settings menu and experimenting.

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My camera is 24 megapixel but I find the photos are too large ( pixel wise) to post on here and need a lot of down sizing. Unless you're careful you can finish up with an odd looking picture.
The good thing about the 25 MP size is the ability to print large photos without pixelation, even larger than A3 depending on the MP the printer can handle.
Good luck with messing with the settings Frank, it's half the fun and better than using photoshop to enchance or spoil the photo.

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Extra megapixels will be good for cropping in close to the birds.

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I REALLY like number 9 :)

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This is an example of cropping a large file and still having a reasonable picture. I took it from down near the railway station.
It started out as a wide shot of Whitby Abbey and hillside and was over 8Mb. I copped it down to what you see now and it was still 2Mb which I had to resize to post.

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I thought Kodak had quit making the Brownie 127:confused:

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Today I thought I would go with a theme. And that theme is "Peanuts.":dancedog: And the first one, to set the tone, is peanuts. Number 2: Cadillac with peanut, followed by squirrel eating peanut. Then there's a tree; don't know how it got in there, but it's a nice tree. Then: angry squirrel demanding peanut. And last: my friend Angus defending peanuts from marauding squirrels.:alright:

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Ha Ha

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A few pics from today, first taken on way to work this morning, the rest from walking the dogs this evening.

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A few from today

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Today was Buttercup day, so as you would expect there are more Buttercups than you can throw cough medicine at. So just behind St Mary's burial ground was our playground for today.

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Did you hold one under your chin?

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I already knew the answer, so just sat amongst them.

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It's a treat to see so many buttercups!

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Today's theme is very similar to yesterdays, buttercups ago-go, and other stuff that's just as go-go. The Coppice would, I thought, be very quiet this afternoon due to the Carnival, no such thing. A gun dog club, training by throwing lumpy things in the lodges. Most with Spinone's (Italian gun dogs), kids that remained behind after the procession departed, and miscellaneous other personnel.

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Three weeks ago I drove up to Ottawa to visit family. After much persuasion my 89 year old aunty came with me. I think she enjoyed herself for the 4 days despite the 6 hour drive there and back. We stayed at my sister's house on the Ottawa River, visited her condo in downtown Ottawa (now up for sale), and crossed the river into Aylmer Quebec.

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A very good friend of my late wife invited me to stay for a weekend at her home near Old Colwyn.


We had a ride up to the Great Orme.

1. Church one the sea side of the Orme.
2. An unusual monument for a lady, The inscription read " I fear naught but God"
3. Mine host preaching from the outdoor pulpit in the older Church.
4. Inside the older Church.
5. Bleak outlook over the grave stones.
6. The sculpture of a goat on the top of the Orme. There has been a big goat cull and we never saw one.
7. The stones laid out on the hillside with names of loved ones made from them.
8. A seagull. One of thousands swooping a diving.
9. Some snails.
10. A flower in a pond where people throw coins for luck, I'm either lucky all ready or tight fisted.

Have they brought back memories Margaret P?

I have more I took at the copper mine which I will post tomorrow.

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They certainly did Russell.
Is the Church the one you can see from the top of the Orme.
I have often meant to visit it, but it holds no real interest for Spindles and Miss Bossy.
Your pics made me a bit 'homesick'.
I have spent some very happy times in Llandudno, but it is over a year since we were last there.

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The two little Churches are on the sea side of the Orme Margaret. Half way up the back road. If you drive past the hotel on the seaside of the prom and carry on anti clockwise round the Orme you come to the road with the Churches on your left half way round. There are a few very sharp narrow hairpin bends and the church is on the last one. Carry on up and you hit the main road up from Llandudno by the tram station. Turn right to go up to the top. I've driven past a couple of times and also all the way round the Orme. It's a private road and the toll is three quids.
The town was packed out so we finished up having our tea at Rhos on sea.
I came back today in 95 minutes, traffic was very light, right foot very heavy.

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I would go on foot to see the little church.(I don't drive anymore)
I would like to look around the graveyard.....I have often looked down on it from the top of the Orme and thought it looked interesting.

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Having spent a few minutes in the visitors centre on the top of Great Orme we decided to have a look around the old copper mine on the way down.
We walked and stumbled over two hundred yards underground, steep downhill in places then back round and out further round the cliff.

Next stop was Rhos on sea for a cream tea and rest my weary bones.

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A new visitor to our feeders. Taken through the window so the focus isn't as sharp as I would like

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Kestrel from this afternoon's walk

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"llygoden bach" having his breakfast underneath our birdfeeder this morning.

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Today I am off tut pit (Huncoat Colliery site), the coal dust has been replaced with colour as summer flowers start to emerge.

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This evenings walkies pics.

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Found him at Porth Yslaig this afternoon.

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I had a trip over to silverdale (on the train) at the weekend (stopping at Lancaster).
I'll have to upload the pics separate because I'm using my phone and the site doesn't allow for multiple uploads via phones.
I'll start with one for the train enthusiasts ;)

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And one of Lancaster station

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It's just as easy to upload them to the laptop :D

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one for Margaret P ... a buttercup butterfly!!! :D from a wander over sherfin with the tedster im still on walking duties .. :D

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Lovely shots Jen...specially like the foxgloves with the drops of water on them...lovely.

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Today was a quick shuffle around Foxhill Bank,I might have stopped longer had I not spent too much time jammed up at Church traffic lights.

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A mixed bag... some from May, others from this week and a couple from today.

1. Dusty Road, freshly washed car - doesn't make me happy.
2. Brightly coloured flowers at the garden centre - that DOES make me happy!
3. Female Oriole stealing nesting material from my balcony planter. This was taken through the glass, so not very sharp.
4. Let me out! Miss Pris getting quite worked up.
5. Fish watching me eat fish at the Chinese buffet - made me feel rather uncomfortable!
6. A chance encounter with a Snapping Turtle. They are often seen at this time of year, searching for places to lay their eggs.
7. They come by their name honestly - that neck can stretch out and take a chunk out of the unwary!
8. A face only a mother could love.

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Today we set off in the rain, walked about in the rain, and drove back in the sunshine, you have to laugh. Jackhouse Reservoir at its moistest, or at least I was.

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Today was a brief walk around St James Churchyard, Altham.

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Beautiful shots that capture a mood. Even if number 3 puzzles me somewhat, beautiful.

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Thanks, I have to say I have no explanation as to what the thingys with eyes are, there are two of them, the tops are actually bicycle saddles back to back. I am not sure who looks after the bit of land they are on, but there is a step over to it from the church and also a gate into the pub car park

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An unconventional yet creative soul, no doubt :)

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Some bumps and puddles I saw on a drive today.

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Nefyn harbour, still has a number of working boats operating out of there.
A labyrinth spider, he's there somewhere in the morning dew.
Woodland path leading up to Carn Fadryn.

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you two do get to some interesting places...wish i could come(sigh)
The most interesting place I have been today is....under Ma's sink...there were spiders there too......some dead...some still alive(aargh)

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It`s not all fun and games Margaret, up at 4, out at 5 to get to Kilmarnock for 9 makes it a long day. Not complaining though, I enjoy it when I get a day release.

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I'm sure the lovely scenery was a compensation.
I would have loved a job which involved travel.....though I loved being a nurse.
I used to be up just after 5 and out of the house for the 5.50 bus....just to start duty at 7.30.
We do what we have to, to earn a crust(and a bit of jam).

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A shortish walk today, from Vicarage Lane in Whalley through the fields to Spring Wood.

1. This stream will soon be close to houses, they are building from Whalley main Road right up to the edge of Spring Wood.
2. Whalley Nab just before we enter the woods and under the bypass.
3. These are the woods in question.
4. As we enter Spring Wood I am met by a whole drift of this Orchid.
5. There are a few tree stumps around the woods that people knock coins into, no idea why!
6. The Ferns now dominate under the canopy, if it was a bit warmer you would mistake it for tropical.
7. The cows are correct, it's raining now.
8.Heading back down in the rain, just a glimpse of the viaduct in Whalley.

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Had a couple of hours up Pendle this evening, didn`t need to look for the Peregrines, they found us tonight.

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Great shots davemac and gPick :)

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Great shots, all of them. Particularly like the clouds.

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Time to try my hand at a cloud shot.

Oops ... methinks I chose the wrong day:D

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fantastic pictures....I love number 7 for its other worldliness, but the peregrines are stunning against that blue sky.
Well done.

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We can send you some of ours. White, fluffy and freshly washed :D

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It was a remarkably clear morning sky in these parts today. In the words of Canadian songwriter Jane Siberry: "A Speckless Sky:)

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It started off very sunny here, but nose dived later in the day.

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when you set off from home walking the tedster the sun shining, lovely blue skies and white fluffy clouds ... you think I don't need a waterproof .. so you take a wander around oakhill park, Haworth park, and wander back along bash lines ... and guess what it started raining while we were walking back under the trees on bash lines ... :p

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Some Canadian All Too Short Summer madness...
I bought a few bargain priced ready-planted pots without really knowing what the flowers would turn out to be. Happy to see some Fuschias - I used to call them 'fairy flowers' when I was little, lilies, and bright red geraniums. The colour red attracts hummingbirds. It seems to be working. I keep my feeder filled with fresh syrup for them and every so often I hear a whir of wings. I was lucky enough to have my camera close by, and sat very still for ages as they're quite shy.

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Great shots of the hummingbirds ... fantastic little creatures for sure.:D

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does the purple one in no 4 shut at night .. if so it looks just like one my neighbour gave to me last year and its grown again .. do you know what its called .. my neighbour cant remember what its called ... :D

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I'm not sure Jen, but I think its an Osteospermum or South African Daisy. I didn't look at the label when buying it, but liked the colour. I'll get back to you about it closing at night :)

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Today was a walk on Pendle Hill to check out the cotton crop, just a pity the pollen count was on the high side.