Picture(s) of the day....

[CitroJim]

I have a load to go as well. Good job its a small car because the rubbish multiplies to fit whatever vehicle you have.

Peter

That's very true Peter!

[mickthemaverick]

Still on for Friday?

Most definitely Mick I'll get some tip slots booked

OK great, I'll be with you 8-8.30 depending on traffic.

[Rp0thejester]

For FcK Sake, I'm off tomorrow and missed the get together again because you ain't doing one!!!!

[mickthemaverick]

I'd much rather be meeting for lunch than doing what I am doing - Gatwick run with a car full of moaners!!

[Rp0thejester]

Oh okay, I'm busy tomorrow, stuff that!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Take your Pic

5 in the spoiler on a similar theme...Silhouettes and Dramatic Skies Northumberland August 8th 2023

Spoiler: show

All Falcon Originals 6th August 2023

Neil

[CitroJim]

I'd much rather be meeting for lunch than doing what I am doing - Gatwick run with a car full of moaners!!

Met too... Massive house clearance of junk and and rubbish is no fun, albeit satisfying in a cathartic sort of a way...

That said, I'd far rather be enjoying an FCF lunch

[CitroJim]

Still on for Friday?

Most definitely Mick I'll get some tip slots booked

OK great, I'll be with you 8-8.30 depending on traffic.

Magic! Really looking forward and I reckon, depending on progress today we should get it almost all done. All that will be left is a few hundred books and CDs to go to the charity shop...

Silhouettes and Dramatic Skies Northumberland August 8th 2023

I like those Neil... Always have an eye on a dramatic sky

This was the best I could do on Monday... Nothing yesterday as it was rainy and overcast!

[NewcastleFalcon]

I have a friend Mark who does a decent reflection in a puddle photo too

Grainger Street Newcastle MK

This was the best I could do on Monday... Nothing yesterday as it was rainy and overcast!

CitroJim Original (with a bit of cropping and zooming in).
Reflections in a Muddy Puddle with a strangely reminiscent shape of an island map.

Mark also does a very decent Jaguar Car Bonnet reflection...

Reflections of the Keep MK own Work
literally the New Castle at Newcastle

Neil

[CitroJim]

Loving those reflections Neil I never noticed it in my picture until you did! My mind is too occupied with house clearance...

[Gibbo2286]

I decided it was time to have a clear out of my workshop, there was a guy advertising in the local free paper that he was buying so he came on Monday and bought a van load, looks a bit less crowded in there now but still plenty to go, he didn't want electrical stuff because it all has to be certified before he can sell it on.

[CitroJim]

looks a bit less crowded in there now but still plenty to go

Bit like me Eric, two Saxo-loads now gone to the tip and a Saxo-load gone to a charity shop and yet you'd never know just looking at my house and attic...

The real result is there's nothing now hiding in cupboards, drawers and dark corners of the attics

This was today's tip haul... There's still much to go there...

And for the first time in 20 years, a quick look around my place reveals no signs I ever owned any Xantias

A close look will still find a couple of wishbones and a rear sub-frame growing at the bottom of the garden but those will soon be gone when I can arrange something a bit larger than a Saxo and some assistance to do the job....

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD Ornithology Club

The intended bit ie the Buzzard not in focus but the stray grass at the front is.

Buzzard on a bale in the background
Falcon Original

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD number 2 28/06/2023
Bird of the day.
Britain's most successful bird Could be there are loads of them. The genuine Wood Pigeon aka the Ring Dove, or even Cushat in some Northerly parts, not prone to congregate on roofs like its more urban cousin, but well-adapted to 2023 and thriving. Very much part of the food chain too, I would have thought if I had the Sparrowhawk's attributes, Wood Pigeons must surely be the easiest substantial meal to catch. Nice plump target and relatively slow flying,

August 9th 2023 the Sparrowhawk did indeed enjoy a substantial meal of perhaps even the very same Wood Pigeon featuring on POTD. Thud and commotion right outside the window, and a female Sparrowhawk was applying what turned out to be a slow coup de grace on the wood pigeon, before spending 10-15 minutes devouring the best bits leaving only feathers then carrying away the more manageable carcass to another place.

Falcon Original
Taken through a window

Falcon Original
Colour turned up a notch

Neil

[CitroJim]

Yesterday, I played with the Google Photos Collage utility and created this...

Google Collage

A few of my favourite things

I will be indulging in one of them today and will hopefully have some good POTD material as a result