Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999561)

As you say what a coincidence.Were there not many people there? What a nice place for agility

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999564)

It was apparently a very big event so I'm told Frank and it's on next weekend as well. People and dogs from all over - the car next to us in the car park was from Ireland and there was a very big campsite. It's on tomorrow too. And it was free to get in and park for us as visitors!

1 This wind's given me a parting
2 Do I look better from this side?
3 I just love greyhounds
4 A red merle collie
5 Phew! I made it - thank goodness that's over!
6 Paul and Jessie won a prize!
7 Jessie wants to stay up here
8 Just for Davemac - a cockerpoo. Apparently he's a poser just like Bob
9 Dog hotel or prison? You decide
10 Dogs and humans on the horizon as we were leaving the showground

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999566)

What time is it on Susie? We may have a look next weekend, not to run Max just watch.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999573)

I thought today would be a slow day due to weather, well done all contributers, ans now here is mine, stuff you have seen before, only the season has changed.
Part 1. Today in Pictures, towpath revisited.
1. Start point, will I get wet.
2. How does that live there!
3. Steps to a wet experience.
4. Barging about.
5. Does my barge look big in this.
6. Must be a convoy, heres another. Chase me.
7. Looking a bit "dickey".
8. Thats the way I came.
9. Someone fired a starting pistol, hes hiding.
10. All the buttercups have been harvested for cough medicine.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999574)

What stretch ot the canal do you walk on Dave?

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999568)

I forgot to ask. Are these professional teams? We only did agility for fun and put on displays at Summer events within a 20 mile radius of Accy.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999580)

No it's an open show run by a local dog training club. Their own website is useless having not been updated since 2010 but browsing the net looking for some info for you I came acros this link

Lune Valley DTC 6 Day Show

From this you can download the schedule and entry form which should give you some idea of what's involved. Apparently they had to cancel yesterday because it was too windy to run.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999588)

The rest of my day - the way home. As we drove into Morecambe the sun was shining so I stopped off on the beach for a few pics.

1 Foxgloves by the gatepost on leaving the showground
2 Just to prove we were in the country - taken through the car windscreen
3 The statue on the prom coming into Morecambe from the north
4 Still coming into town
5 On the beach - quite a breeze
6 Sun on the water, distant view of the Yacht Club
7 Sunlight, the Stone Jetty on the horizon
8 A bit closer to the Yacht Club
9 Houses on the prom from the beach. The gap between the houses is the one you can see from the other side from our house, and I took the Olympic flame pics from a point just about outside the house on the very lhs of the photo
10 Seaweed - well I was on the beach!

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999612)

Interesting pictures, Why is that house on stilts in picture 8?

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999633)

Ha ha I wondered if someone would ask. It's the yacht club race office, on the prom, overlooking the beach. It's where they start yacht races from, every Sunday, and presumably they like to be up high so they can see what's going on. It's also useful to shelter underneath if you caught on the prom in the rain!

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999642)

Interesting, would make an interesting shot if it was full underneath with people in the rain, that does men thought that you would get wet taking the picture.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 999674)

More photos in Gargnano...and the last few in Malcesine. :hothothot

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 999691)

Dianne, I love pics 8,9 and 10.
I'm really envious. You should have them on Flickr and let more people see them.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999709)

Part 3
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Does this mean me?

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 999756)

Yes, I'm with you there Dave...it is time he started to put them on Flickr too.(all about not good enough!)

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999759)

Part 1. Today in pictures, the search for Hapton Castle, a lesson in disappointment

1. Thats the direction we are heading for.
2. Whilst waiting, I thought whats Morecambe Bay Yacht club house doing here.
3. Parked up and down the lane we go.
4. were still going down the lane.
5. I wished I'd brought a packed lunch.
6. Right, lets get going on our quest.
7. You will notice from the view point that I have got my socks wet again for the "shot.
8. You can get lost, im not coming down there.
9. As we head away a quick look back.
10. Here we go again water down the boots.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999762)

I wonder what you get up to in the Clough. What breed is your Bob?

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999765)

Usually there is no one about, so I am able to run naked through the woods, Bob is a cockapoo (cocker spaniel/poodle cross)

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999766)

I thought he was . How long have you had him. A friend of ours was enquiring about cockapoos.She is after a dog who doesn't moult and is easy to train.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 999691)

Dianne, I love pics 8,9 and 10.
I'm really envious. You should have them on Flickr and let more people see them.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 999779)

Isn't it amazing that we must have been taking pics of the sunset at round about the same time?
Well, I think it is amazing..but I'm only a B.O.B(batty old bird)

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999760)

We will await Franks reply on that one. did you notice picture 12 appeared to be looking at you..........Ood a thowt it.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999787)

Yes it's been watching me all evening.

Talking about things looking at me Dave, I was on your Flickr page earlier and saw a goat peering out at me - very like one we used to have. Where did you you find that? Was it on your daily peregrinations with Bob?

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999775)

Sunset from our back window today 10 minutes since
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 999777)

Pictures of the sunset from my back bedroom window.
Taken just a few minutes ago. I love sunsets, no two are ever the same and they change by the moment.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999794)

He was in an allotment very close to Foxhill bank Nature Reserve.

He was at the top of that path, you can just see the field.

Is peregrinations a type of bird of prey?

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 999796)

Peregrinations are the countries where they all live.

I think that goat is probably a girl. Just cos it has horns and a beard doesn't mean it's not feminine. Billies are usually much heavier shaggier and mean looking. They also smell. That one has a nice smile. You didn't happen to notice whether it had a bag of milk underneath?

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 999934)

Didn't get out with camera today as the missus was laid up with a bad back. Just for Margaret Pilkington and Davemac have a look at Ood a thowt it

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1000037)

I hope picture number 5 finds its way onto your Flickr page. It is a lovely study of texture.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1000041)

I see absolutely no reason why you should be disappointed. There are some lovely pictures there.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 1000073)

I was probably hoping for something I hadn't seen before, or perhaps I was just that way out.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1000120)

Tried to post these yesterday but had a very unstable connection and gave up in the end...here's hoping today is better.

These are some photos i took in April in and around the village of Dacre near Lake Ullswater -a lovely backwater with a great pub! My 2nd fave house is the one with the smart topiary!:cool:

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1000123)

Did you come in the Summer we had , the pics are very sunny. Doesn't it make the photos better with a bit of sunlight. I think Margaret is a director ( with shares in Flickr) as she has mentioned to post on Flickr.

Originally Posted by maxthecollie (Post 1000123)

Did you come in the Summer we had , the pics are very sunny. Doesn't it make the photos better with a bit of sunlight. I think Margaret is a director ( with shares in Flickr) as she has mentioned to post on Flickr.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1000120)

Tried to post these yesterday but had a very unstable connection and gave up in the end...here's hoping today is better.

These are some photos i took in April in and around the village of Dacre near Lake Ullswater -a lovely backwater with a great pub! My 2nd fave house is the one with the smart topiary!:cool:

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1000149)

Speaking with my Good Life hat on, I think that little white house in the last pic is a chicken house rather than a beehive. It has a nest box on the back with a lift up lid for collecting the eggs and a wire netting run attached to the front.

A beehive would be smaller, with overlapping sides to make it easy to take the sections apart.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1000121)

Beautiful pics Dianne.......they should be on flickr...they would get lots of 'hits'.
Love them all but my favourites........and I can't choose between them, have to be the window, and the white house...pic number 5.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 1000213)

Part 1. Today in Pictures, Spring Wood, right around the perimeter.

1. I should, but I don't, so Susie over to you, thank you.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 999795)

How come I'm the only one who hasn't taken a sunset yet? I never manage to spot them, mind you I am in bed by 9. o'clock with Horlicks and a fig newton.

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1000221)

That's a toughie Dave, without any scale to go on and no leaves, at first I thought it was our old friend bistort but I've never seen one open that far.

Got the old floras out and I think it's an orchid. Could be Northern Marsh, though most of the pics on the www are much darker pink.

Teesdale High Force.

Or possibly a hybrid of Northern Marsh and Common Spotted, as per this photo...

Northern Marsh Orchid x Common Spotted Orchid, Dactylorhiza x venusta | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

There seems to be a lot of hybridisation about - they obviously can't keep their knickers on.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1000304)

Nearer to home today - quite a big selection of photos of a walk I did with my Aunt and Uncle a year last August from Newton to Slaidburn and back in a round trip. Beautiful walk, lots to see and a really smashing lunch at the Hark to Bounty in the middle!:)

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1000152)

Just had another look -i believe you are right! Hadn't really looked at it that carefully before - the wire netting wouldn't keep the beees in!:D

But is it white or pale blue -I'm going back for another look!;)

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1000221)

That's a toughie Dave, without any scale to go on and no leaves, at first I thought it was our old friend bistort but I've never seen one open that far.

Got the old floras out and I think it's an orchid. Could be Northern Marsh, though most of the pics on the www are much darker pink.

Teesdale High Force.

Or possibly a hybrid of Northern Marsh and Common Spotted, as per this photo...

Northern Marsh Orchid x Common Spotted Orchid, Dactylorhiza x venusta | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

There seems to be a lot of hybridisation about - they obviously can't keep their knickers on.

Originally Posted by shillelagh (Post 1000257)

sunset at the minute starts about 9.15pm .. roundabout end of august/beginning of september it'll be about 8.45pm ... :(

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1000282)

I think we probably had a bit less cloud.....you need a bit of cloud to get the purples and the pinks on....a bit like a canvas I suppose.......so Davemac will have some chance to get his Sunset caught.....and before too long.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 1000337)

As for keeping their knickers on, i'm just the same.

You are bang on again, I must get a pocket book to wild flowers. although I would not have started in the orchid section.

Have sent "k" as a thank you, but it is not enough.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 1000340)

I am not sure where I am going wrong, but I am just not seeing them, even when I am out doing a family taxi job they just pass me by. I carry my camera when I think there might be one.

I will have to stop wearing a balaclava and dark glasses, I think its a hindrance.

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1000308)

Phew- last batch of 10 -was really snap happy on this walk:o:o Hope you will have the patience to look at them.

(Wish i could be out walking there now -still can't walk on my bad knee -have had results of scan -seems I have a trauma injury to both lateral ligaments in my knee and liquid in the joint. Will find out Monday what treatment I need.
For now i'm enjoying the excuse to sit and watch Wimbledon!!:D)

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1000348)

and more...it's Daves fault.
1) a babbling brook by the side of the canal.
2) Mr Kite is coming.
3) Mr kite is going - never gave me a backwards glance.

There would be more but for somereason it doesn't like my files and is failing to upload them...don't quite know why.
I had one of cobbles for Dianne too :(.