Picture(s) of the day....

[Peter.N.]

We have loads here and it's been a good year for them, the only problem is that the brambles are growing so fast they keep meeting in the middle of the track and scratching the cars, I'm sure if you looked at one long enough you would see it growing! Keep chopping them down and they keep coming back. Very tasty though, we still have blackberry and apple jam from last year.

Peter

[mickthemaverick]

No blackberries in the garden but I can offer these:

MTMO

MTMO

MTMO

[myglaren]

Not that many in my local park today. I expect that birds have taken them as they ripen, as they have stripped the cherry trees on the boundaries to my house.

[Peter.N.]

We have the same problem with cherries, we had a huge cherry tree in the garden and the birds used to queue up waiting for them to ripen so I planted one at the top of the field - same result.

Peter

[myglaren]

I am reasonably pleased. When they do ripen and drop on the path the resulting cherry jam tramps all over.
It has been a few years since though.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Today's Quest
Bring a picture of a blackberry to join the August 23rd 2023 POTD fruit collection, they are in profusion just now well ahead of the traditional autumnal "Blackberry Week" half-term holiday of times gone by

Quest completed although camera battery ran out so only a couple of pics of relatively ropey ones from me

falcon original

falcon original

Neil

[myglaren]

This was about the measure of them when I went to the shop at the other side of the park.
Not very impressive, the ones last week on the coast to coast track were better, less people around there of course.

Poison I imagine.

[Rp0thejester]

This isn't just any Ferrari, this one is special. It has diplomatic immunity!

[NewcastleFalcon]

This isn't just any Ferrari, this one is special. It has diplomatic immunity!

Associated trivia
The first 226 indicates that it is from the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman, the D is Diplomat, and the rest just a sequential number.

https://fm.gov.om/London/
It is more than 220 years since Great Britain and Oman signed a treaty in 1800, agreeing that “the friendship of the two states may remain unshook till the end of time, and till the sun and moon have finished their revolving career”.

Embassy of Oman in London 1
Sdrawkcab at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[Rp0thejester]

That little doll used to give me nightmares!

And no, not the pink or black one.

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD Coloured Front Doors Club. The holy grail, the United Kingdom's rarest front door colour...

Ni Ni Ni Nineteen

Falcon Original
The Orange Door

Neil

[Peter.N.]

My mother painted her bungalow red and white in the '50s - that went down well.

Peter

[CitroJim]

My mother painted her bungalow red and white in the '50s - that went down well.

Good on her! I love to see brightly painted houses. They make me smile

[NewcastleFalcon]

More POTD Colourful Things to make you smile.

Falcon Original
Beautiful Butterfly on mixed opinion Buddleia!
One of the few plants that keeps Butterflies still enough to photograph them!

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

A Russian naval commander I do believe!