Today in pictures - Page 566

davemac · 07-07-2014, 18:32

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Today's offerings are a few photos of a nearby field which is flowering beautifully (I think it's alfa-alfa!). Then a series of shots showing this years stock of straw being unloaded and stored in the courtyard in front of my house. Apparently they are at the half-way mark with the work. Sadly one of this year's farm kittens was killed when one of the bales fell on him yesterday

Dangerous places farms, I think bales is a misleading description, they are huge. also the buildings are pristine, where's all the knee deep cow muck that we walkers come across over here.

davemac · 07-07-2014, 18:50

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Originally Posted by Turtle

I always enjoy seeing your photos of Haworth Art Gallery, davemac. It was a favourite childhood haunt of mine (hmmmm... I feel a blog entry coming on here

As for Pendle Hill, it was a favourite walk for my mother and her family when she was growing up. I'm ashamed and saddened to say that I didn't get to go there when I was a lass in Lancashire. Something for my bucket list perhaps!

I think people don't appreciate what is around when they are younger, I used to work at Haworth (grounds) and didn't see it with the same eyes I do now as an old man.

We live with the countryside visbly around us all the time, all that is required is to look past what is directly in front of us. I never went up Pendle until I was no longer required at the council. Now it is a place that has permeated my bones, I can see it from a lot of places in town that I didn't think possible, and all that I had to do was look past the rooftops.

My pictures of Pendle are interactive, if I post pictures of a wet outing up there, just sit in a washing up bowl full of water whilst viewing the pictures, and you will feel the experience I had at the time, if its frosty, back into the freezer, and for the summer heat, stand over a three bar electric fire. Doing this will give you a remote visiting experience, with the advantage that you can have a cup of Yorkshire tea in one hand.

p.s. only do this if you are in the house on your own.

davemac · 07-07-2014, 19:17

Today in Pictures, a short outing around Mercer Park.

1. Just by the gates, hidden from view, Hydrangea macrophylla.
2. Mercer House hidden from view.
3. I walked under this tree, and heard mass buzzing , looked up, and multiple insects were feeding on the Lime tree Blossoms.
4. Top end of the park.
5.Hemerocallis (day lily) it wont be there tomorrow.
6.Used to be called Montbretia, now called Crocosmia.
7. Echinacea, this bed has various colours of this plant.
8. The spiky plant is new to me, but Mercer House in the background,taken from the sensory garden.
9.Anemone, if you look closely wickthings are mooching.
10. And with that, we are back at the entrance, which for us is the exit.

Turtle · 07-07-2014, 22:14

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Today's offerings are a few photos of a nearby field which is flowering beautifully (I think it's alfa-alfa!). Then a series of shots showing this years stock of straw being unloaded and stored in the courtyard in front of my house. Apparently they are at the half-way mark with the work. Sadly one of this year's farm kittens was killed when one of the bales fell on him yesterday

Nice photos Diane. It amazes me that you're harvesting straw when we here in Ontario are still growing it.
Sorry to hear about the kitten though

Turtle · 07-07-2014, 22:22

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Originally Posted by davemac

I think people don't appreciate what is around when they are younger, I used to work at Haworth (grounds) and didn't see it with the same eyes I do now as an old man.

We live with the countryside visbly around us all the time, all that is required is to look past what is directly in front of us. I never went up Pendle until I was no longer required at the council. Now it is a place that has permeated my bones, I can see it from a lot of places in town that I didn't think possible, and all that I had to do was look past the rooftops.

My pictures of Pendle are interactive, if I post pictures of a wet outing up there, just sit in a washing up bowl full of water whilst viewing the pictures, and you will feel the experience I had at the time, if its frosty, back into the freezer, and for the summer heat, stand over a three bar electric fire. Doing this will give you a remote visiting experience, with the advantage that you can have a cup of Yorkshire tea in one hand.

p.s. only do this if you are in the house on your own.

I know what you mean, davemac, but you're far from 'an old man.' You're well fit if you can walk as far as you do

And, you're out there, and seeing it all with fresh eyes each time. This thread has encouraged a few of us to try to do the same.
Thanks too for the suggestions for vicarious viewing. Gave me a chuckle for sure!

gpick24 · 08-07-2014, 10:53

Just a few more from Sunday.

1. George Formby singer.
2. Ze French Resistence, that gun made a hell of a noise.
3 & 4. A couple more of the plane.
5. I feel there should be a joke here with the elderly people sign, but can`t think of one.
6. One of the Rivers.
7. A BFC on a reconnaisance mission.

maxthecollie · 08-07-2014, 12:59

2-07819.jpg Just one so far for today

DaveinGermany · 08-07-2014, 18:24

Gp 24, that first one of the "Dak" is a really good pic & it looks like someone has dinged the stowage bins on the "Stormer".

gpick24 · 08-07-2014, 18:42

We were lucky with the plane, we went up into the hills for Daisy to have a run-about when the plane flew over, got a really close view (pic 4 is uncropped), and it did a U-turn over the fields next to us.

DaveinGermany · 08-07-2014, 19:09

Right place, right time it seems, how very serendipitous!

davemac · 08-07-2014, 22:00

Today in Pictures. 30 minutes to play with today.

1. St Mary's Burial ground.
2. Old fence posts.
3. Get your jam jars sterilised, its going to be a bumper year.
4. Shut that......er.....gate.
5. St John's Wort.
6. Stuff going to seed.
7. Signs of the inserted water pipe are slowly merging into the landscape.
8. One the farmer missed.
9. The ever present Pendle.
10. And finally, something growing out of a chimney

mobertol · 09-07-2014, 19:23

Evening walk after a stormy afternoon.

davemac · 09-07-2014, 21:59

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Originally Posted by mobertol

Evening walk after a stormy afternoon.

There are some impressive skies there.

gpick24 · 09-07-2014, 22:32

Only a few pics tonight.

mobertol · 10-07-2014, 12:46

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Originally Posted by davemac

There are some impressive skies there.

We've been getting the tail end of some very strong storms - Milan and Pavia have been flash flooded and there has been a lot of damage due to hailstones too - unusual for this time of year. I'm not complaining as it's cooler than normal!