Picture(s) of the day....

[mickthemaverick]

Devious new posting technique there Neil, the picture changed between my views!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Well I have only pressed the shutter once today, and I am afraid it was a barrel scrape. It isn't even a good example of the breed. These things used to be one of the distinguishing features of a coach trip down to the coast, as well as the two tone blue sea and sky lampposts these used to decorate the approach as you got nearer the seaside down the coast road.

Come of folks, from your archives or from more recent snapping you must be able to do as well as this

At least there is a minor link with my clinker with pokers being the weapon of choice for removing clinker from fire-bars, and I am sure that their botanical name isnt red hot poker so maybe someone can research that and enlighten botany club. Obviously not a UK native plant so where did they originally come from

REgards Neil

[Peter.N.]

Were you lying down when you took that?

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

Were you lying down when you took that?
Peter

Leaning over a wall!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

An ungainly pose from the neighbours cat:

Own work

[mickthemaverick]

At least there is a minor link with my clinker with pokers being the weapon of choice for removing clinker from fire-bars, and I am sure that their botanical name isnt red hot poker so maybe someone can research that and enlighten botany club. Obviously not a UK native plant so where did they originally come from

REgards Neil

The botanical name is Kniphofia Uvaria and they thrive in USDA zones 5 through 9

Read more at Gardening Know How: Poker Plant Care: Growing And Caring For Red Hot Torch Lilies https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orname ... lilies.htm

[NewcastleFalcon]

The botanical name is Kniphofia Uvaria and they thrive in USDA zones 5 through 9

Read more at Gardening Know How: Poker Plant Care: Growing And Caring For Red Hot Torch Lilies https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orname ... lilies.htm

Thanks for the info Mick. Originally from South Africa. Didnt know they were also called Torch Lillies.
A favourite of many Municipal Parks Departments

http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_poker.html
The Red Hot Poker can be found growing in grassveld and marshes and is found from the Western Cape Province north through to the Limpopo Province.
Field Notes There are a number of Poker species including K. linearifolia, K. uvaria, K. multiflora, K. Caulescens.
The Red Hot Poker is a South African plant that is now found in many parts of the world, having been imported for its dramatic beauty and for the fact that the flowers last for a long time.

REgards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

I have bought some various face coverings/masks, and here are a few pictures. They are all my own work.

[myglaren]

[Hell Razor5543]

Don't you hate predictive text/spellcheckers? I guess that should have been "bandanas".

[NewcastleFalcon]

Newcastle Airport has a fascinating Control Tower its a fine example of a hyperboloid structure and even appears on the wiki page for such things amongst illustrious company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure

Here it is through the fence from the outer perimeter of the airfield

Nf own work

REgards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

This evening (five minutes prior to posting) I saw a rather lovely double rainbow from my bedroom window. I have managed to capture the different contrast between the space within the arc and outside of it;

[mickthemaverick]

Odd pair of signs at today's lunch pub in Broom Road Teddington, if the distant sign is out of focus it is the pub name “The Anglers”.

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

..and here's a pub from Teletubbies which has provided me with a bit of investigative entertainment.

screenshot

If any of you folks have darkened the doors of the London Borough of Hounslow, you may recognise it.

No point going on a pilgrimage now though, it has gone and been replaced with a bit of new housing confirmed in the conclusion to the investigation.

Simple internet search reveals an image and a rough location.

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A couple for Botany club to conclude my crop of shutter pressing for today.

Whether these purples are part of a deliberate mix for green manure to improve the land I dont know. The land in question is on the approach to the airfield at newcastle airport and has various bits of "equipment" lights whatever for airport purposes, but outside the boundaries of the airfield itself.

purple flowers of Lacy Phacelia I think

and these pretty little minature yellow and orange flowers were in the hedgerow in front of the boundary fence of the Airport.

yellow and orange "butter and Eggs" (toadflax) I think

Regards Neil