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No I don't like zoos but those animals looked very well cared for. Also their surroundings looked more "natural" than they would do in UK. Warmer climate helps!

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Took these at home on Monday.

1 Blackberries growing in the verge by the house
2 Basement door and steps leading up to front door. Pots and baskets don't do well here as they catch all the weather off the prom funnelling between the houses on the prom. They also need watering - but they got a lot of rain that night and yesterday! And there's a serious shortage of sunshine here. The coach in the background is parked in the car park you often see in my photos - there are often seven or eight coaches in there for the folks staying in the hotels. The blackberries in pic 1 are growing in the verge you can see.

The rest of the shots are of my agapanthus in a pot which have done quite well this year. There are two white ones but couldn't get the second one in shot apart from in the last photo which is taken looking down over the steps from the top.

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Mo, I think you'll find your Prairie Dog's a Meerkat. :)

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Great pics Sue........I like number two pic....I would just edit out that Shearings coach.

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Today in Pictures, a return to altitude.

1. On the way up the hill a Dung Roundhead in need of moisturising.
2. The top of Hapton Quarry.
3. Looking down over the firing range.
4. This looks like it contained some part of the bucket system that took material down the hill.
5. A job half done, I bet when they were put here (flagstones) they thought it would be for a day or two, not forever.
6. The spoil piles go on into the distance.
7. Three insects for the price of one, a butterfly , a soldier bug and a fly.
8. On the top of the world, and I find a bit of a cobbled road.
9. The underside of a spider, guarding the firing range mechanism.
10. The pond on the way off the quarry.

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Your wish is my command - clone some trees - but I quite like that splash of blue...

OOPs - good job I only posted eight pics earlier!

Edit - just noticed you can still see a bit of the coach at the top - back to the drawing board!

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A spider's bum - once seen, never forgotten!

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I like it like that!

I took a similar one down in Cornwall somewhere.....it is in my Flickr pics. I use it for my home made cards.
here it is.....
Up the stairs | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I know....it isn't anything like yours.....well except it has steps:D.

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I wish my geraniums look like that! They never seem to do well on my steps because of the weather but I have this image in my head and keep trying! Either that or move further down the terrace where the weather is less vicious from the prom.

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Almost Euorpean -the steps with the flower pots Sue - has inspired me to look through mine...:)

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Inspired by Sue's post with steps and Margaret's Flick'r pics -theme "Steps".:hothothot

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10 more to follow tomorrow...:)

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An inspired theme Dianne - just wish I could get some better flowers on mine - it's more pot than plant at the moment!

Pity the poor postie on our terrace - there are 25 houses with steps like that to each front door!

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Good excercise Sue! ;):D

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Meant to write where each one was:o
1 Malcesine on Lake Garda
2-3 Back streets of Gargnano, Lake Garda
4 Il Vittoriale, Gardone Riviera, Lake Garda
5 The Arena, Verona
6 1st floor of Accy Market Hall
7 Heptonstall
8 Clapham village
9 Kirby Lonsdale
10 Stable block of Dalemain House, Cumbria.