Today in pictures

[susie123]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

More coots here -

Great, Kes - those feet look like they belong to a different bird altogether but I guess they help when in the water. They seem to be webbed along the side of each toe rather than across all the toes like a duck would have.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by susie123

Great, Kes - those feet look like they belong to a different bird altogether but I guess they help when in the water. They seem to be webbed along the side of each toe rather than across all the toes like a duck would have.

Yep evolution is a strange thing - I can't see god creating a coot! When you pick them up they are like balsa wood, very light, compared to chickens.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by davemac

It started a thought though, perhaps there is a website with a lot more, when I have a bit of slack in my curriculum I might have a -mooch for one.

Yes Dave -on the Bologna one I posted you can see more of those panoramic views in other parts of the town -click Bologna and there are a choice of 6 and you can put it in English! If you just go to Italyguides.it there are places all over Italy and Sicily you can visit and it's all in English too -with maps and the panoramic views and loads of other info. It's a great site for escaping to once in a while. I'm sure Sue could re-visit some of the places she's been and you can get a real feel for places.

[mobertol]

More shots around Bologna!
The first four are in Piazza Maggiore early morning after the big festival. Then a couple to show how many people were there on the day of the festival -it was jam-packed all day long and all night for the fireworks and concert too. The set of bells were rung at intervals all day long -they are very unusual hand-bells and very loud! There's a view of a typical side street with loads of mopeds which are parked everywhere.

Two unusual shots with reflections of the buildings of Piazza Maggiore -inside the frames are the photographs, names and dates of the 2000 partisans who died defending Bologna in WW2.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Yes Dave -on the Bologna one I posted you can see more of those panoramic views in other parts of the town -click Bologna and there are a choice of 6 and you can put it in English! If you just go to Italyguides.it there are places all over Italy and Sicily you can visit and it's all in English too -with maps and the panoramic views and loads of other info. It's a great site for escaping to once in a while. I'm sure Sue could re-visit some of the places she's been and you can get a real feel for places.

I found the panoramics and had a brief look at some, Rome was first, will give it a walloping when I have a bit more time to look properly

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Ha I love that cute coot Dave with the matching feet - all in black and white.

He (or she) was used to people, so didn't scuttle off, and taking a snap was easy.

[Restless]

just one from yesterday

[kestrelx]

I've been raiding the archive - here's a few from up North!

These were taken with a 35mm film camera not digital.

[mobertol]

A final selection of odds and ends from my trip to Bologna.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Lovely pics Dianne......what a wealth of photographic opportunity there is.

The cherubs in 7&9 look most dischuffed...do you think that God cancelled their day off on the day they posed for these? Or took away their toffee ration perhaps? (do cherubs get a toffee ration?).....ignore me, I am being whimsical.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Lovely pics Dianne......what a wealth of photographic opportunity there is.

The cherubs in 7&9 look most dischuffed...do you think that God cancelled their day off on the day they posed for these? Or took away their toffee ration perhaps? (do cherubs get a toffee ration?).....ignore me, I am being whimsical.

Thanks Margaret -it was a photographers paradise -I kept running out of batteries. The Cherubs were taken with a friend in mind, he appreciated them!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

I've been raiding the archive - here's a few from up North!

These were taken with a 35mm film camera not digital.

Where was number 2 taken, I don't know of anything around here, if it is I must visit.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

A final selection of odds and ends from my trip to Bologna.

Lovely locations, you can feel the granite and mosaics, and the coolness coming off them.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Where was number 2 taken, I don't know of anything around here, if it is I must visit.

It's in the Lakes near Ullswater - Aira Force waterfall. It's even got one of those coin treetrunks!

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by susie123

It's in the Lakes near Ullswater - Aira Force waterfall. It's even got one of those coin treetrunks!

Thanks for speaking for me Sue!