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Beautiful pics, Shaun.

And "Dino Park" looks like cool fun, Vader, especially for the kids.

Zorm wrote:

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

Hmm the landscape looks mountainous towards the horizon. Are they of the actual sort or merely mundane hills masquerading as such? I have an odd fixation with mountains, possibly because we possess none here. And then only those miscellaneous fells in Lapland.

Lovely pictures.

PS. the last bugger's definitely a Thread Shoe. From the Apologies to Avatar "discussion".

Can't believe I didn't call it a thread shoe!

As for the bump in the distance, I always call it a mountain and my American/European friends scoff and say, "Call that a mountain?!" etc. I'm not sure what official height a rocky bump has to be to qualify as a mountain, but anyway this one is called the Illawarra escarpment.





Wikipedia tells me: "The hills of the plateau reach over 800 m, as for example at Bells Hill west of Knights Hill and the escarpment reaches a maximum of 768 metres at Mount Murray southwest of Dapto. As a whole it is known as the Illawarra Range."

Whatever it's called, I like it, and I like being sandwiched between this 'mountain' and the sea.

P.S. I didn't know you were sans mountains. For some reason I thought Finland had lots of them Gotta love the Watch, better than an geography lesson!

P.S. Thanks MsMary.

Wow! A bunch of you really have an eye for good composition! I hope this isn't against the rules but I can't resist!



This is by Jean-Eugene Atget, a French photographer at the turn of the 20th century.

To me this photo blurs the lines between landscape and portrait. Atget had an ability to personify objects unlike anyone else of his time.

I've always thought the creators of the Myst series must have been heavily inspired by him.


one more Atget

Rules schmules. LOVE the first Atget image. Oh, and in case I don't make it over the Welcoming wall, hello Crystallized Edison

Shaun das Schaf wrote: As for the bump in the distance, I always call it a mountain and my American/European friends scoff and say, "Call that a mountain?!" etc. I'm not sure what official height a rocky bump has to be to qualify as a mountain, but anyway this one is called the Illawarra escarpment.

P.S. I didn't know you were sans mountains. For some reason I thought Finland had lots of them Gotta love the Watch, better than an geography lesson!

*looks at the date* Phth, another thread that didn't bother sending an email notification.

Mountain-ish enough for me. Nope, when the lands were divided at the beginning of times, Norway and Sweden got all the ups (mountains) and we the bottoms (lakes). Then there are these, but geographers insist they cannot be called mountains (tunturi=fell), and can be spotted mainly in the northermost Fland.


Hi, Edison! Love the 1st image too.

Frostheart wrote:

Shaun das Schaf wrote: As for the bump in the distance, I always call it a mountain and my American/European friends scoff and say, "Call that a mountain?!" etc. I'm not sure what official height a rocky bump has to be to qualify as a mountain, but anyway this one is called the Illawarra escarpment.

P.S. I didn't know you were sans mountains. For some reason I thought Finland had lots of them Gotta love the Watch, better than an geography lesson!

*looks at the date* Phth, another thread that didn't bother sending an email notification.

Mountain-ish enough for me. Nope, when the lands were divided at the beginning of times, Norway and Sweden got all the ups (mountains) and we the bottoms (lakes). Then there are these, but geographers insist they cannot be called mountains (tunturi=fell), and can be spotted mainly in the northermost Fland.


Hi, Edison! Love the 1st image too.

ooo... that Saana fell is VERY pretty... too cold for Shaun, but very pretty! Oh and you have a name change I see

Shaun das Schaf wrote:

Frostheart wrote:

Shaun das Schaf wrote: As for the bump in the distance, I always call it a mountain and my American/European friends scoff and say, "Call that a mountain?!" etc. I'm not sure what official height a rocky bump has to be to qualify as a mountain, but anyway this one is called the Illawarra escarpment.

P.S. I didn't know you were sans mountains. For some reason I thought Finland had lots of them Gotta love the Watch, better than an geography lesson!

*looks at the date* Phth, another thread that didn't bother sending an email notification.

Mountain-ish enough for me. Nope, when the lands were divided at the beginning of times, Norway and Sweden got all the ups (mountains) and we the bottoms (lakes). Then there are these, but geographers insist they cannot be called mountains (tunturi=fell), and can be spotted mainly in the northermost Fland.


Hi, Edison! Love the 1st image too.

ooo... that Saana fell is VERY pretty... too cold for Shaun, but very pretty! Oh and you have a name change I see

Figured that many, if not most of the 3rd chronicles names remain untaken, so why the heck not (perhaps good to keep in mind, too, if you ever get tired of claymation sheepness and want to evolve into something else...). It's a different song with the rest: someone snagged even the one of Starfare's Gem's cook.... Besides, everyone constantly tells how cold it's here. No, it's hot elsewhere, I say!

The area where I live (and its neargrouns) isn't flat as such, but harbors a lot of bedrock hills and cliffs. They used to be islets or rocks during the Nordic Bronze age, and everyone built their burial mounds on top of them. Now they rise 50-100m above the sea level and house barrow-wights. zorm.deviantart.com/art/Siuntio-160945894

Awesome pic. And Frostheart becomes you by the way. I shall bare your 'still open for occupation' name advice in mind, should I cease to be happy in my sheepskin (which seems unlikely).

New hat and boots.



The man in black tries a bright colored hat.

Perrrkele, I want boots like that. Only in a much smaller size.

Thanks, Shaun. Hmm...there seems to be a comment a few pages back where someone stands all agog over a little snowfall. Must dig out gelid, frosthearty snowscapes to intimidate the Miðgarðr'ians.

We spend a day at a Serengeti-Park - a drive through zoo with different animal worlds and leisure parks.

This facebook album is public so it should be visible to everyone. Feel invited to become my friend if you're on facebook.

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If the link doesn't work contact me.

Here's more information on the park:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serengeti_Park

So I clicked through to your timeline, Vader, in order to send you a friend request, and I got a line that said "Do you know Doc Vader?" and that was it -- no "send friend request" button. Bloody Facebook anyway.

aliantha wrote:So I clicked through to your timeline, Vader, in order to send you a friend request, and I got a line that said "Do you know Doc Vader?" and that was it -- no "send friend request" button. Bloody Facebook anyway.

*nod*

Same here, Vader.

Feel free to send a friend request to me instead:
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Come join the Facebook Watchers group as well, although you may need to be added by a member of the group who is a friend.

Friend requests should work now for everyone.

But be warned, my FB is not an ivory tower of the fine arts. Most of my contacts are loud and in-your-face weirdos and what they do sometimes is NSFW, but they're all good people (a lot of them are from Brooklyn actually).

Having shown the beautiful side of my neighbourhood, I thought it was time to show what lives alongside it. I've never understood people throwing rubbish away in the streets, in gutters and out of car windows, but it gobsmacks me to see it dumped in nature. Also, someone is handing out free petrol and paint since the local kids are burning and tagging everything...



























Of course, this place is still damn pretty...









Oh, and I promise I didn't carve this into the concrete myself, but look what I found....



In conclusion, cockatoos

Wild cockatoos?? That's pretty awesome! (Of course, awesomeness is relative. When Seareach was in the US, she was disappointed that she hadn't seen any squirrels. And we were all like, "Seriously? You wanted to see a *squirrel*?"

Re the trash/tagging/random fires: And here I thought that was strictly American behavior.

Yeah, everyone I told looked at me strangely. Party poopers! I did finally get to see one at the start of the Grand Canyon. It was bopping around amongst some rocks. Really far away but at least it was a squirrel. I was yelling at Lucimay, "LOOOOOOOK!!!! A SQUIRREL!" but, if I remember correctly, she wasn't that excited.

It was the same when I went to Ireland. I desperately wanted to see a hedgehog and people told me they were *everywhere* but do you think I could find one! The closest I got was one dead on the road. We stopped the car, I got out, I even took a photo of it. You could tell it was a hedgehog because it had spikes but that's about all the diagnostic features it had...coz it was quite flat and rather manky!

HaHa, yeah this place is covered in cockatoos. There were a few where I grew up but down here, sometimes you can barely think from the screeching. Even though many folk dislike them because they make a mess of wooden balconies etc, I have a soft spot for them, having grown up with a tame house cockatoo who used to stand on the edge of Mum's dinner plate and pick at her pasta! (Amongst other things.)

Unsurprisingly, like Seareach, I would LOVE to see a squirrel

Seareach wrote:It was the same when I went to Ireland. I desperately wanted to see a hedgehog and people told me they were *everywhere* but do you think I could find one! The closest I got was one dead on the road. We stopped the car, I got out, I even took a photo of it. You could tell it was a hedgehog because it had spikes but that's about all the diagnostic features it had...coz it was quite flat and rather manky!

My neighbour had a hedgehog overwintering in her brick shed, and we have some in the garden! They are gorgeous little creatures, but full of fleas usually. Unfortunately they have no road sense.

Seareach wrote: Yeah, everyone I told looked at me strangely. Party poopers! I did finally get to see one at the start of the Grand Canyon. It was bopping around amongst some rocks. Really far away but at least it was a squirrel. I was yelling at Lucimay, "LOOOOOOOK!!!! A SQUIRREL!" but, if I remember correctly, she wasn't that excited.

I wish I knew when you were in Denver. We could have waited for a few minutes in the morning and probably seen a ton of them. They are all over our neighborhood. You just have to look up at the trees and telephone poles typically.