*Random Picture Thread*
 

I thought that we could use a place to post random and neat pictures that we would like to share with everyone.

I know that we have talented photographers out there and thought that this thread might be a great showcase for them

My contribution is the unique parking lot we have infront of our house.

Here is a Cicada that I found in our crab apple tree

the Number 6 Train ~= Choo Choo =~ at a threshing bee that we go to

How cool! I love them! Thanks.

Neat, Lizz. Great pictures. I'll glance and see if I can't find a couple to share.

Maybe I can put one in now ...

Love the pics, Lizz. I've read loads about the "noise of the cicadas, blah blah blah" in various books, but I've never actually seen a pic of one before. Cute little bug, ain't he?

Thanks for sharing, and thanks for the idea! ....... I'll try and find some I haven't posted before, too.

DM

I know I haven't posted this before cos I only took it on thursday, but I may have posted something similar. If so, apologies, although this is much better quality.

Got it when I was out with the dogs and my 'good' camera, previous ones I had I took on my phone camera!

DM

A trinket from the Smithsonian.

Here's one I like taken at Allerton Park ... a close-up of part of Robert Allerton's mansion.

The second is of the mansion from a distance across his reflecting pool

those are excellent DM, OF and DB!

From our trip to Colorado this past summer....

and another...

...more

those are fantastic!

This isn't my pic, as I can't seem to get the file small enough for pixies. I just wanted to show you Anne Hathaway's cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon

Beautiful pics. I just loved England when I visited.

Couple more that I kind of like ...

I was gonna start my own thread for this, but maybe this is the best way to go...the missus & I just spent last weekend in a cabin in the smokies...the drive up the side of the mtn included a terrifyingly steep grade that had me convinced that our Cruiser was gonna tumble backwards end over end, & the driveway to our cabin was angled the wrong way for a narrow mtn road...but when we got inside, we found why they put us thru all that...

Picking the best of the pics I got is like choosing my favorite noodle in a spaghetti dinner...but I think these stand out ;)

For some reason, I woke up very early in the morning, but when I saw the chance to get the sunrise pics, I was glad I did...

Scotz, those are gorgeous! Makes me wish I was there, too. I miss fall.

I've got a variety of pictures from around the buildings I manage, and these are a couple I've always liked. One is the view from inside an office. What a site!

Goes to show you how camera angle really does matter. :D

Isn't Mother Nature just beautiful!!!

We certainly do have some talented photographers!

I love this thread!!!!


Hmmm, when Booger gets the printer/copier hooked back up, I'll get one of kiddo's pics that she took last summer up here.

Just curious WI. In the 'Tower' pic,.... is there a double, floor level, door under that beam and is it a working lift beam?














(… and are you allowed to keep a fly rod in your locker? :nod: )

some of my fave place

Zoid, :) Is that area part of (or near) the Blue Ridge mountain area? It's breathtakingly beautiful country and your description of the razor-edge road sparked an OLD memory from about … 35 years ago …. a while back, along the sheerest drop I ever got to spend about 30 miles next to. MUCH of it was cable guard rail along an edge too steep for trees to grow on, so you had a vista view that you didn't dare look out over. When my white knuckles saw the sign for 'Hungry Mother State Park', I knew somebody else had the same thoughts about the road that I was having. I sold that car years later, with my fingerprints still in the steering wheel.

BEAUTIFUL area :loveshowe , but somebody else can do the driving.:yikes:

I should have named this "Pixies Postcards" These pictures are all postcard worthy!!! I love it!

I have more, but the file sizes are just too big and my program sucks to shrink for Pixie viewing....Anyone care to help? Thank you in advance!!

You can email things to me at [email protected] and I'll gladly shrink them and send them back.

You bet there are floor level double doors under that beam. A pair on each of the five levels. The doors are solid mahogany...painted green on the outside. :yikes: And the beam was used all day every day from 1864 to 1985, when the mill moved south in search of a more affordable environment.

I've yet to drop a line, but rumor has it that the fishing is great! We own three dams on the river, and there's a pin-truss bridge spanning it as well. All I need to do is make the time!

Here's a view from the front; the doors are in the background. My office is behind the two windows to the right. ;)

PF, this was strictly in the Smokies, on the TN side (altho I'm pretty sure you can see parts of NC in the pics...the big mtn in the distance should be Klingman's Dome, highest point in TN, & NC is on the south slope)...I think Blue Ridge is farther east in NC & VA ...mrs zoid ridiculed me for leaning forward during the climb, like that'd help, but I really felt the need to move our center of gravity up any way I could :yikes: I have always had an intense fear of heights, & I recall a trip thru the area, hmm, may have been...about … 35-40 years ago (I was still a child, mind you) into NC to see the outdoor theatre show "Until These Hills", about the Cherokee Indians who USED to live in the area...the bus was being piloted by a sadist who seemed to take pleasure in my terror, taking the kind of curves you describe way too fast...time & therapy haven't been enough to keep me from breaking into a cold sweat at the memory :sad:
In fact, the cabin had an old relief map on the porch to help us visitors get our bearings, & I took a pic of that too...I'm hoping that my resizing it for pixies hasn't eliminated too much detail, but the crudely hand-drawn "X" in the center is about where we were, on the SE face of the Chilhowee Mtns...

here are more that PF helped me to resize ~~Thank you kindly~~

Beautiful is a lily that grows at my folk's place

the others are all pictures taken at my last trip to England

more "post cards" from England

:) :d :)

What a great building, WI.:D As much as I'm against 'regulation' beyond safety codes, you should not be able to put up a building with more than one story, (including homes) that doesn't have a beam. They could be esthetically acceptable even if made retractable to do so and the beating that would be saved to the building over it's life, (not to mention the work) would be great. :)

And since we're here…………….. :box:

A flat roof by any architect should be 100% guaranteed, by them AND their descendants, for the life of the building, if it is above 35º N latitude!

……….. And you can NOT have a basement for ANY building without a minimum of a 48" exterior stairwell!

*weeee*




Resume construction :)

It is a cool set of buildings, that's for sure.

I'm not a fan of flat roofs either! But if there's a decent height parapet wall...they make for fine swimming pools when you plug the roof drains. :D

Snoqualmie falls.

Falling particularly hard from all the rain we've had here lately.

Nice falls!

I sure love rocks and rivers.

WOW! those are some cool pics Aqua!

When Lake is away on business for a few days, he gets my parents to take care of Vinci, our kitty. My parents have an adorable bunny, Chatouil. While at first, the cat and the bunny didn't want anything to do with one another, Vinci is now starting to realize that he is getting bigger than the bunny. And he is soooooooo curious about that rabbit!!! Sorry about the third pic being so dark... Vinci would wait until the rabbit peeked over the edge of his little house to give him a tap on the nose!

This is a picture of me, the man I love and admire most in this world (my grandfather), and his wife. Note that his wife is his high school sweetheart, who he got back together with after 47 years of not seeing one another.


We're in Sonoma at a winery, about 35 miles from my house.

BTW - I look awful in this photo (lost a lot of weight since then), but the scenery looks great!

One of the toughest things about living in San Francisco is that I don't get to see my granfather -- who is 81 -- very often. :(