(West) Berlin had double-decker buses when I visited in 1968. I believe it may still have them today (not the same ones, obviously).

Ah, a picture of the largest open-air urinal in the world!

(I visited that church and the predominant smell was urine. Many men use that
church as a urinal. Or they used to, anyway. I hope someone has done something
to end that behavior. It's not something tourists want to remember.)

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Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)

Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)

Use Wikipedia to look up Double Decker busses.

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Use Wikipedia to look up Double Decker busses.

Why?

Found that also Sydney Australia have double-deckers.
And green of course:)

Now there was a bus to drive. :-D

Yes there was still a few of them around in service when I started driving at Sydney Buses (there were several name changes in my time) and I've driven almost all of these in service, http://ufies.org/~aleith/transit/sydney/syd_pres_bus.html, and a lot of these, https://www.google.com.au/search?q=sydney+leyland+atlantean+bus&sa=X&biw=1280&bih=953&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjS5eGWqevPAhUPzGMKHRjDA9QQ7AkIJw#imgrc=_ and these http://www.sydneybuses.info/bus-fleet except those models that have either been trialed or put into service in the last 15 years.

Cheers.

Well from busses to er ships.. why not.

I keep my second PC with the screen open on Marinetraffic.com luckily ships don't move as fast as trains so I can usually get up to the fort in time to see it pass.

This is a somewhat unusual vessel that passed through the Solent today.

THV (Trinity House Vessel) Galatea.



Currently employed with buoy laying.

I did see it at a distance at the weekend.

Here a lot closer.



Passing Hurst Point Light, en route to ST Ives Cornwall, with the buoys in evidence on the rear deck.

First of all, let me emphasize that I am not talking to anyone in particular.

I just want to post a gentle reminder that this thread is for original photos
taken by you (or of you), only. Please don't post pix you got from the web.

I'll go so far as to accept photos that you are certain were taken by friends
or family and that you have permission to post. For example, this photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:



An occasional "oops, I forgot" pic is okay, but let's not let the thread get
filled up with "borrowed" pix.

Thank you.

We now return you to our normal broadcast.

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photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:

I've seen that plant before around here, but never that big!

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

This first picture is of the temporary marker they installed right after he died:


Today's pictures:






Entrance to the cemetery:

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

This first picture is of the temporary marker they installed right after he died:

Hi Gordon,
Thank you for sharing those photos with us.

photo of my
cousin's Elephant Ears:

I've seen that plant before around here, but never that big!

And that's exactly why I asked her to post a photo so I could see how
big they've gotten. Amazing!

Hopefully she'll send me a few bulbs when it's time to dig them up.

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~Sue~

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

Is that where he's interred? If not, any idea why they decided to install the
monument?

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~Sue~

It's a gorgeous Fall day, and I thought I'd go take a picture of Muhammad Ali's monument in the cemetery that's a couple miles from my house.

Is that where he's interred? If not, any idea why they decided to install the
monument?

Oh yes, that's his final resting place. It just took them awhile to get the monument in the ground. When you drive in to the cemetery, there is a yellow line on the road that leads to Col. Sanders, and a green line that leads to Ali. It's a huge old cemetery.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I love cemeteries. I even had my stone made ahead of time and set in the ground, so I can go by and look at it at my leisure.

Here are some more pictures I've taken inside the cemetery where Ali is buried. It's an oasis in the the middle of an urban area, here in Louisville, and about a five minute drive from my house:




Cemetery ducks. There are lots, and even some swans. There's a big lake/pond in the cemetery where people like to have picnics and feed them. I'll take some pictures of that another time.


Kentucky Fried Chicken founder:


My grandmother on my father's side is buried under this tree:


This is just kind of an art-deco stone that struck me:

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Gordon,

Thank you for sharing photos of the final resting places of two American legends: Muhammad Ali and Col. Harlan Sanders.

The granite monuments at that cemetery reminds of the many "old" cemetery in and around the Chicago metro area.

About 1/2 mile from where I lived in Chicago, there is an "old" cemetery where people still do an occasional picnic and also a guided tour once a year where they point out some of the famous and less than famous have been laid to rest over the last 120+ years.

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Had a visitor in my garden who I have seen for a number years. This hedgehog was mooching about front garden when I came back from shopping. Hedgehogs used be regular visitors years ago, but some reason I not seen them for a while.

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

Hedgehogs:)
Our dog Tosca had a close encounter with one recently.
She sniffed at it.
I don't think she will do it again.

I LOVE hedgehogs!! They're very noisy eaters, or the ones our friends used to have visit their garden when they lived near Epping Forest, were anyway.

I'm rubbish at taking photos so am not likely to contribute any to the thread, but I'm really enjoying everyone else's :)

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

A few shots from the last couple of days
First around the Lion Salt Works










Finally one in at Aston Marina earlier this evening

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Yesterday as it had been a sunny afternoon I decided to got up to the Fort Victoria to see the sunset.

It was quite spectacular, and I think I might use one of the pics as my screen wallpaper



As you can see the sunset has moved quite a few degrees SW since the ones I took a month ago. It is also and hour and 15 minutes earlier!!

I returned home and just happened to glance at the ship map and saw the something very interesting was due to pass soon.

So putting on a thicker coat (it is very chilly up at the fort), I went back up.

There in the fading light was the biggest ship I personally have ever seen.



The 84,000 ton passenger ship MV Arcadia en route to Cadiz in southern Spain.

Totally dwarfing the IOW ferry passing astern.

I was worried that the fading light might make taking a good pic difficult, but this little camera never ceases to amaze



I have to admit when you see one of these ships close up like this it is an amazing sight.

I kept taking pictures .



I think this is my favourite as the Arcadia really does sail into the sunset.



I stood there watching for a good while not wanting to break the moment.