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Post by Burnside on May 10, 2020 15:17:18 GMT
Wild garlic in all it's glory What an absolutely wonderful pic! - I'm sure some wildlife mag or website would love to feature it. Makes the big half-barrel I've got of it in the garden (turn right at the giant fuchsia) look a bit spindly. I bought the 50 tiny little bulbs of it on-line last year and was thrilled when they grew back this year. I know they should have grown back as they're bulbs, like bluebells, but I was still amazed when they did. It's in flower now, too. It's close to Mathers wood near Oakamoor the photo is only half of it. it part of my daily walk/exercise. as above, it smell's wonderful too. |
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on May 10, 2020 18:56:43 GMT
I love the country, the people, the culture, and the food and drink. Me and the wife have been all over the country during the last few years and we were due to go to Sicily this September but the situation is just too risky at the moment. Hopefully things will improve soon and some level of normality will return so that travel can resume. Dees, when the 'new normal' is here, make sure you carry out you do get to Sicily. One of my favourite places on the planet (though, admitedly, there's quite a few places I've never been to!) Back to the pictures...... This one taken a little below the summit of Mt Etna. It really is this colour, and BLACK for more recent lava flows.  I love these otherworldly places. Just over a year ago I was in the Azores. This is new land created on Faial during a volcanic eruption in the 1950s:  I had this incredible place (Poço da Ribeira do Ferreiro) to myself as well. This was my third visit here in the 3 or 4 days I was on Flores:  When a heron flew past, I imagined it was a pterodactyl and I was in Jurassic Park. |
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Post by chigstoke on May 10, 2020 20:12:37 GMT
Dees, when the 'new normal' is here, make sure you carry out you do get to Sicily. One of my favourite places on the planet (though, admitedly, there's quite a few places I've never been to!) Back to the pictures...... This one taken a little below the summit of Mt Etna. It really is this colour, and BLACK for more recent lava flows. I love these otherworldly places. Just over a year ago I was in the Azores. This is new land created on Faial during a volcanic eruption in the 1950s: I had this incredible place (Poço da Ribeira do Ferreiro) to myself as well. This was my third visit here in the 3 or 4 days I was on Flores: When a heron flew past, I imagined it was a pterodactyl and I was in Jurassic Park. Absolutely brilliant photos mate. |
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Post by NassauDave on May 11, 2020 2:47:54 GMT
Yeah. Sorry about that. I was there about 20 minutes before the photo. Bad eggs I believe....
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 12, 2020 12:13:58 GMT
 This was the view that met me when I finished work last night, about 10.15. |
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on May 12, 2020 14:58:58 GMT
This was the view that met me when I finished work last night, about 10.15. Yes, Westport Lake is lovely at this time of year. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on May 12, 2020 15:11:14 GMT
 Home end Queen of the South. |
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Post by Dutchpeter on May 12, 2020 15:21:53 GMT
 The Boothen Ends. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 14, 2020 10:53:18 GMT
 Pre lock down sunset activity at Tywyn beach. |
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Post by murphthesurf on May 14, 2020 11:55:00 GMT
This was the view that met me when I finished work last night, about 10.15. Naaaaaah, Nige............ it's Chesapeake Bay! (I so want to go there and have a boat trip.) Oh, that reminds me - if you see any huge clumps of massive yellow flag irises anywhere at the edge of the lake at Wesport, plus 6' high clumps of Purple Loosestrife, they came from the Murph estate. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 16, 2020 18:35:18 GMT
 One of many petrified tree stumps on the beach here revealed after the winter storms when it was all forest many thousand years ago. Surrounded by vast peat beds showing the shovel marks when cut for fuel. Ice caps melted, breached the land in the North and created the Irish sea which up until that point was nothing more than a lake. The Isle of Man is the tip of what was a large mountain. Global warming started a bloody long time ago. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 16, 2020 18:42:20 GMT
 On the beach today looking back towards Tywyn. Cut peat beds in the foreground. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 16, 2020 18:45:33 GMT
 Turning around and this is the view of Cadair Idris in the distance. White building is the Doctors and hospital. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 17, 2020 16:17:28 GMT
 A couple of the engines on the railway (when its running). Purchased back in the fifties for 5 quid each from the railway in the next valley. |
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Post by murphthesurf on May 17, 2020 18:12:16 GMT
On the beach today looking back towards Tywyn. Cut peat beds in the foreground. Evenin', Chuff: More great pics.  It all looks totally deserted..... Anyway, was just wondering…….. On the BBC news yesterday it said that - now that the lockdown rules are being relaxed & folks can go out in the car and can exercise outside for as long as they like - some picturesque sort-of places (might have been the Lake District, etc., but I think Wales was also mentioned) are saying that they actively DO NOT WANT people/outsiders to go there, daytripping…… I know from all your pics on this thread that it's been really quiet & deserted in your neck of the woods for the last few weeks, but are you noticing any increase in folks milling about yet who obviously aren’t locals? PS: Glad to see you've appeared to stay sober for the last few pics, btw, as the horizon has been the right way up on them. Good man. Can't have been easy. I'm still off the sauce since last August, can you believe. Nary a drop has passed me rubies. 'Taint fair!  |
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Post by partickpotter on May 17, 2020 18:13:24 GMT
A couple of photos from my perambulations around Glasgow this afternoon  |
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Post by partickpotter on May 17, 2020 18:15:37 GMT
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Post by murphthesurf on May 17, 2020 18:16:16 GMT
A couple of photos from my perambulations around Glasgow this afternoon  Gorgeous! |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 17, 2020 18:31:44 GMT
On the beach today looking back towards Tywyn. Cut peat beds in the foreground. Evenin', Chuff: More great pics. It all looks totally deserted..... Anyway, was just wondering…….. On the BBC news yesterday it said that - now that the lockdown rules are being relaxed & folks can go out in the car and can exercise outside for as long as they like - some picturesque sort-of places (might have been the Lake District, etc., but I think Wales was also mentioned) are saying that they actively DO NOT WANT people/outsiders to go there, daytripping…… I know from all your pics on this thread that it's been really quiet & deserted in your neck of the woods for the last few weeks, but are you noticing any increase in folks milling about yet who obviously aren’t locals? PS: Glad to see you've appeared to stay sober for the last few pics, btw, as the horizon has been the right way up on them. Good man. Can't have been easy. I'm still off the sauce since last August, can you believe. Nary a drop has passed me rubies. 'Taint fair! It's still pretty quiet on the whole but there's always exceptions to every rule, like yesterday. There was Dad, Mum and four offspring dragging the pushchair through soft sand with said kids climbing over some break water rocks that you wouldn't find Edmund Hillary on. One slip and it's air ambulance time, obviously not locals. Welsh police are stopping vehicles in a place called Machynlleth where the road splits North/South for the coast, even work colleagues who make the journey daily are being pulled over regularly. Having said that we've got our fair share of locals who can't count to two and like their partying. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 18, 2020 8:59:06 GMT
 A rough idea of the lay of the land. Town in the middle distance then Cardigan bay. I'm somewhere near the edge of the water!. |
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Post by murphthesurf on May 19, 2020 17:38:44 GMT
What an absolutely wonderful pic! - I'm sure some wildlife mag or website would love to feature it. Makes the big half-barrel I've got of it in the garden (turn right at the giant fuchsia) look a bit spindly. I bought the 50 tiny little bulbs of it on-line last year and was thrilled when they grew back this year. I know they should have grown back as they're bulbs, like bluebells, but I was still amazed when they did. It's in flower now, too. It's close to Mathers wood near Oakamoor the photo is only half of it. it part of my daily walk/exercise. as above, it smell's wonderful too. Many thanks for that. I'd love to go there & see it - it looks spectacular! |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 22, 2020 10:55:57 GMT
A few thousand years of peat exposed at low tide yesterday. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 22, 2020 11:00:46 GMT
Some local info.  |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 23, 2020 17:47:39 GMT
 This high wind has really whipped up the water. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 23, 2020 17:50:46 GMT
 Very high tide but warm, windy and sunny. 10PM |
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Post by richie22 on May 23, 2020 18:04:22 GMT
Very high tide but warm, windy and sunny. 10PM that looks amazing dude. Not many photos make you feel warm and cold in the same shot |
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Post by partickpotter on May 25, 2020 9:33:59 GMT
Glasgow sunset - from my living room!!  |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 25, 2020 12:31:21 GMT
 Great on the beach this morning, for a change. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 29, 2020 20:39:49 GMT
 Thoroughly enjoying the marvellous weather. |
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Post by chuffedstokie on May 29, 2020 20:43:02 GMT
 These two risking a fine in the sun. |
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It all looks totally deserted.....
Gorgeous! 
