Today in pictures

[Margaret Pilkington]

Thank you Bea....the hotpot was eaten for tea(with great gusto by himself and my elderly neighbour....I can't eat Lamb).
As for the cards....thank you for your kind words....I like to think they are far better than what you can buy because they are specially made for the recipient...and made with love.
I'm not sure if those receiving these cards can feel the love...but I hope they can.

[gpick24]

A few pics from yesterday

1 & 2. Our home for the night, Loch Lomond
3. I think this is Loch Long.
4. Rannoch Moor.
5. Loch Ba
6. Red Deer
7 & 8. Heading into Glencoe.
9. Orion.
10. Zoomed in a bit for Orion Nebula.

[hilleluk]

Always great pics...No 5 for me

[Margaret Pilkington]

Love number 6....but they are all good.
Lots of that white stuff up there.

[gpick24]

Originally Posted by hilleluk

Always great pics...No 5 for me

Thank you

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Love number 6....but they are all good.
Lots of that white stuff up there.

Thanks Margaret, it`s cleared quite a bit now but still cold though (-6 last night), more snow forecast for tomorrow.

[gpick24]

Some more pics, from yesterday 1-4 (a drive around Loch Ness) & today 5-10 (an afternoon around Glencoe).

[Margaret Pilkington]

Lovely pics...but 9 for me.

[Ryewolf90]

Some from this afternoon on the ELR at Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall.

A 4200 Class 2-8-0T Loco built in 1919, it has 8 driving wheels and could haul coal trains weighing in excess of 1,000 tons over the steep gradients of the Welsh valleys. Retired in 1962 until bought for preservation in 1985, but wasn't in steam again until 2014 and can be found on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (at the moment on loan to the ELR).

[Exile on Spencer St]

Great pictures, Ryewolf.
Everyone involved in its restoration and continued use should be really proud. Don’t know why but, somehow, I can’t imagine anyone today making a piece of transport infrastructure that would operate commercially for over 40 years and still be going after 100.

[gpick24]

Last lot from our week in Scotland.

1-5. Isle of Skye.
6. Foyers Woods.
7. Rounded Hill & Loch Ness
8. Red Kite
9. Falls of Foyers.
10. First go at Star Trails, I also used the pics from this to make a time lapse which came out better than this, i`ll try and share the too.

[gpick24]

Here (hopefully) is the time lapse, towards the end there is what I think is a meteor burning up
Starry Night Timlapse by g pick, on Flickr

Can`t get it playable on forum so just a link to it on Flickr

[gpick24]

Just a few photos from a brief visit to Coningsby.

[Margaret Pilkington]

1) Clawde Squirter McWhirter....the stray from out the back.
He has adopted us now....and hopefully next week he will lose the'squirter' bit of his name.
He is having his 'fuzzy nudgers' removed by the vet.

2) I was asked to make a Wedding Card. This is it.

3) There but not there. In Preston Market.

4) a childs birthday card...made by me of course.

[shillelagh]

today in town ..

[gpick24]

Daisy and Duke having fun by the river