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![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34428 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
I like all those pictures. One reason i love this country. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 ![]() ![]() |
Just to "rub it in" after my post in the weather thread, this is the tree outside my flats viewed from my kitchen window earlier ![]() |
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That's very pretty. What type of tree is that? ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 ![]() ![]() |
With the big orange ball still visible in the sky here in April (Apparently today some places in the UK may have the hottest April day for 70 years) I deicded to go and have a sit in the park. This is called the Queens Gardens and it right in the middle of Croydon. ![]() It is well below street level as can be see by the busses on the left. The wall below the busses it what is left of the cutting wall of the rail line to Central Croydon railway station What is strange is blue skies temperatures in the 70's and no leaves on the trees, only buds!! I had been sitting there a while trying to get a good picture of a magpie, when I was aware I was being watched. ![]() Now this is not a park I have ever fed squirrels in but they must be used to being fed. As I always carry a few nuts in my bag(doesn't everyone?) He/she was quite happy to accept several walnuts. ![]() I now remember seeing the bus drivers(it is a bus stand) putting peanuts on top of of the wall. It is such a small park right in the center of Croydon I was surprised to see squirrels there. That's very pretty. What type of tree is that? Gordon I know next to nothing about trees, my best offering is "A white one" :-) |
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That is one spoiled squirrel! ![]() |
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On a whim this afternoon, I decided to drive down the road an hour to the capital of Kentucky. My hometown, Louisville, is the largest city in the state, but the capital is in a very quaint small town called Frankfort: ![]() This was a neat little bookstore I browsed in along my walk through Frankfort: ![]() ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3371 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 ![]() |
I was going to say that I don't know what this is, but I decided to finally look it up and found that it is a Ligustrum sinense, Chinese privet. It smells great and the bees love it. It's in my back yard. I like to say that the birds planted this for me because it came about by birds on the branches above pooping out undigested seeds. As I understand it, many plants come about this way. (Of course that is an assumption, but it is an educated assumption.) You can see Buddy, my 14-year-old chihuahua, in one of these pix. I'm not sure which one. And yes, that is a chicken coop. I have two Rhode Island Reds. Long story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's one with a bee. ![]() And this is an avocado plant I'm attempting to grow from a seed. I used to do this a lot. If this does well, I plan to transfer it outside. I doubt it will produce any avocados, but so what! First I have to keep it from the cats who would, no doubt, like to chew off the top. It has happened before. :-( ![]() ~Sue~ ![]() |
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You have a pretty backyard, Sue. ![]() |
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You have a pretty backyard, Sue. Thank you. Going by those few photos, one might think so. But it really isn't very pretty. I have almost no grass - mostly just dirt. I have a dilapidated shed that desperately needs to be replaced, and I have a deck that also needs to be replaced. When it rains it gets so flooded that I can't use it for several days. But it's mine and I and the animals like it! (I can't spread grass seed because the chickens would eat it up, and since most commercial grass seed is treated with some sort of enhancing agent, it would be dangerous, as well. I'd like to try to put down some live grass sod, but that gets very expensive. Maybe a little at a time.) Thanks again. ~Sue~ ![]() |
Sir Rodney Ffing ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Oct 15 Posts: 92 Credit: 209,637 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Gordon I know next to nothing about trees, my best offering is "A white one" :-)A thought not too distant from one's own ;-) Sans qualifiers for leaf shape and arrangement, one's beloved favours ornamental cherry over whitebeam and/or other candidates, yet hastened to add that she is no authority on the subject. This links to a searchable map:- London's Street Trees and might be if your council responded to the data request. Lovely pictures from all contributors. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Very nice map! Thank you. Two observations: For those of you in England, are your Ash trees doing ok? There's a bad insect killing them in the U.S. The other thing I'm wondering about is why there are no Ginkgo trees on that map. The Ginkgo is an especially good choice for urban areas, and it's a very elegant tree. ![]() |
rob smith ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22676 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 ![]() ![]() |
One advantage of getting up at obscene o'clock on a Monday morning: ![]() ![]() ![]() Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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Nice sunsets and sunrises. :~) ![]() |
Richard Haselgrove ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14688 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 ![]() ![]() |
A month later, and significantly further north, spring has got its second wind, and I've never seen so many white trees so thickly covered in blossom.That's very pretty. What type of tree is that?Gordon I know next to nothing about trees, my best offering is "A white one" :-) From the canal bank ... ![]() ... to the golf course. ![]() The valley bottom ... ![]() ... to the hill tops. ![]() They're all over the place! I think most of these are probably common hawthorn or May Blossom - more a hedgerow bush than a tree. The one in front certainly is, but the big domed one on the other side of the valley might be different. In England, it's a common decoration for pagan rites of spring, like morris dancing. ![]() And a pollinator claims his reward. :-) ![]() |
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Lovely photos, Richard. ~Sue~ ![]() |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13886 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 ![]() ![]() |
That is an awesome picture Gnu. Grant Darwin NT |
![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34428 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 ![]() ![]() |
That is an awesome picture Gnu. +1 With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
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That is an awesome picture Gnu. +2 ~Sue~ ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 9958 Credit: 103,452,613 RAC: 328 ![]() ![]() |
Last night here in south London we had one of the worst storms I can remember, constant thunder and lighting every few seconds and torrential rain. It was around midnight and I decided to try and capture it on video, trouble is it goes from dark to brilliant light so quickly the camera has trouble keeping up. I did get this. ![]() turning the camera a bit a few seconds later I got this. ![]() Also the rain caused minor flooding on the road outside. ![]() Again a still from video, so not wonderfull quality. |
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Those lightning photos are actually very eerie with the contrast. I like them. ![]() |
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