Picture(s) of the day....

[Peter.N.]

I'm pretty sure this was a grass snake - but I wondered, especially as I was prodding it about! Its the biggest one I have seen here in 50+ years, probably global warming.

Peter

[momag46]

Definitely a grass snake, an Adder or Viper as it’s also know has zigzagged markings and is also smaller.

[myglaren]

Yep, grass snake it is.
Never seen any in the UK, nor a viper.
The only one I have seen was the one that bit me when in Sweden, miles from anywhere and no transport.
Didn't die that time.

[momag46]

They are still about but like most of these type of animals their habitat has gradually been lost. When I was a lad in the 50s there was a railway bank with a large marshy area next to it where the soil for the bank had been dug out. This was the local kids play area and there were loads of wildlife. We soon learnt that grass snakes were okay to pick up but not the Adders. The bank is no more and the marsh was filled in.

[CitroJim]

Good on you Jim, how many heads and handles?

I believe it's a fairly new one

[NewcastleFalcon]

Minor shadow of the camera strap

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Today brings perfect conditions for a shadow fest.

On the Bridge
Falcon Original

On the Path
Falcon Original

Falcon Original
In the Bluebell Woods

Neil

[Peter.N.]

Very nice but I can't be having that you just reminded me to get the camera out. Top of our garden just now.

[attachment They have cut all our Larch trees down.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Another shadow submission. The owner seeing the shadow on the car, reversed the car back into full sunshine for the photo on the small shooting brake thread... link

viewtopic.php?p=755332#p755332

Sticking with my personal Wrens, Shadows, and Roe Deer May POTD theme I Call this one

The Austin A40 Shadow.

Falcon Original

Tractor Shadows and Light

Falcon Original 10/04/2023

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Today is "K" day, in the

May 2023:Quickfire A to Z of anything/everything

join in here if you can viewtopic.php?p=755405#p755405

This 2015 vintage Falcon original photo of a Karmann Ghia Convertible has already been entered. The additional bonus of the shadowy cameraman, gets it into my May 2023 POTD shadow picture collection.



Neil

[bobins]

Just call me Mr Lucky

At the start of the week I thought I could detect a slight noise from the front of the engine on my pick-up truck..... so I kept an eye (ear) on it. I had a look today and I'm glad I did. The outer sheave was parting company with the bearing it's pressed onto and was making its way towards the front of the belt cover. Thankfully it's only a half hour job to do the cambelt and pulleys on the truck so disaster avoided I wouldn't mind but the cambelt and tensioners were still 5-10k and one year under their (alleged) service limit and were a Gates kit

Dodgy tensioner - own work

[CitroJim]

Gosh You had a lucky escape there Robin! Funnily enough, it was only yesterday I whipped the cam covers off Bluebell to check her belt was OK...

In case you miss it in the Meetings area of this forum.... All the pictures I took at the StokesGoldenClassics show today

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mX7EjMUyyM1Lj3cdA

One to whet your appetite

It certainly did mine!

[Peter.N.]

Certainly still some lovely cars out there - some of them I drove the first time round.

Peter

[CitroJim]

One taken during my bike ride today...

[CitroJim]

I was down in Stickyfinger's parish yesterday....

I went for a very pleasant hike around the top of the Torr Works limestone quarry and was staggered at the size of it!

All around it, and maintained by the quarry, there are some truly beautiful places to enjoy the beauty of the area... The quarry itself may be a scar on the landscape but it's well hidden and plans are in hand to properly restore the area when it becomes exhausted - possibly 30 years hence...

This, in a way is the birthplace of Milton Keynes... The quarry is rail-connected and back in the 70s and 80s a regular daily flow of stone trains ran between this quarry and the New City to provide much of the raw material to build it... There's a locality of Milton Keynes now named Stonebridge Park where the sidings once were.. It's now a big road/rail freight terminal...