Great pictures, I really like that moss wall and the stone roof tops.
Pat, you are not confused. Lately I have been getting up at 3 or 4am. I've had that restless leg syndrome now for several years. Not painful but very annoying. Legs won't get comfortable at night and my feet and legs constantly heat up. Summers are the worst for it, but I have adjusted to it.
Fairygirl, I do more biking than walking, however if it's below -5, I'll do more walking.
A very important thing in my life, my bike. I even wear sunglasses that match the colours of my bike.lol
I love just jumping on my bike and doing the trails along the creek and river, and the bike path is almost right at my back door. I always search the river banks for interesting pieces of driftwood that I can bring home and boil. Boil so I can use in aquascaping my fish tanks. In the fall I'm always on the hunt for seeds to collect.
I'm sure you don't live in a dump. Your towns and cities have centuries of rich history. My city is very young in comparison. One of my passions is history, N American, British/European. The oldest home here in Calgary only dates from the early 1880s. The Mounties came out here in the 1870s to send the American Whiskey traders back to the USA and to stop the Blackfoot and my Cree ancestors from constantly scalping each other. The UK could fit into my province a few times but we only have a population of a few million. Clean, well there are days that I look down the hill into the downtown and see heavy smog, not Beijing smog, but still dirty. Summer before last I couldn't see further than a few houses down the street because of the smoke from forest fires in BC, N Alberta and south in Montana. Some of the elderly people on my street were having breathing problems from it.
Gorgeous photos JC. I know what you mean about history and connections with past events and people. I hope the Blackfoot and Cree have stopped fighting! I have just moved to France from Belgium where we lived in an old farmhouse dating from the 1770s. I used to run an international cooking group and one of the ladies - a Tex-Mex princess - observed that our house was older than her country.
Someone else doing some work on the house removing layers of tarmac from very old granite pavers in the former yard could tell from their style and size that Napoleon had probably seen them when he passed on his way to Waterloo.
Our new home is also an ex farmhouse but I have yet to discover any of its history but believe the main building dates from about 1900 and is probably a barn conversion.. There is an even older ruined stone-built house in the grounds.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
One of my hopes is to come back to the UK again. I've loved history from an early age,when I was over your way I was ten years old and my love of history wasn't as intense as today. But still, I'll tell ya right now, I was the happiest 10yr old boy in the world, that first morning, waking up in a farm house in Ireland, that was built in the early 1600s.
Obelixx,
Not to worry this was the last battle between my ancestors and our traditional enemies. My side lost.
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I've already done several jigsaws Pat
I wasn't sure if I'd done the right things as I couldn't 'see' them either! I found it very enjoyable
I did these photos - one from last week's walk
Arrochar hills
The 'balanced' rock on Beinn an Lochain
The little lochan at the north end of Loch Treig up at the Easains
a hoverfly in the garden last year
and a mossy wall in Glen Doll
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Strange to think Pat is having spring and we are going into autumn.
Pictures of Dordogne.
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Just beautiful BL. Imagine having the view of that chateau on a regular basis. Glorious
The architecture in Europe is stunning.
Some of those would be nice jigsaws too
I hadn't realised the strange fact of Guernsey being part of Britain but not the UK. Perhaps GD will explain if she pops in.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairygirl "I hadn't realised the strange fact of Guernsey being part of Britain but not the UK."
You mean it should be French?
Wonderful photos. I'm envious of you all having such lovely views.
Fairy, I'll look again to see if the photos have been done yet. Did you use Scotland as the tag and are you still appearing as Fairygirl?
Nice photos, Busy-Lizzie. I must go visit the Dordogne some day.
Great pictures, I really like that moss wall and the stone roof tops.
Pat, you are not confused. Lately I have been getting up at 3 or 4am. I've had that restless leg syndrome now for several years. Not painful but very annoying. Legs won't get comfortable at night and my feet and legs constantly heat up. Summers are the worst for it, but I have adjusted to it.
Fairygirl, I do more biking than walking, however if it's below -5, I'll do more walking.
A very important thing in my life, my bike. I even wear sunglasses that match the colours of my bike.lol
I love just jumping on my bike and doing the trails along the creek and river, and the bike path is almost right at my back door. I always search the river banks for interesting pieces of driftwood that I can bring home and boil. Boil so I can use in aquascaping my fish tanks. In the fall I'm always on the hunt for seeds to collect.
My bike and the riverbank of the Bow River.
aym,
I'm sure you don't live in a dump. Your towns and cities have centuries of rich history. My city is very young in comparison. One of my passions is history, N American, British/European. The oldest home here in Calgary only dates from the early 1880s. The Mounties came out here in the 1870s to send the American Whiskey traders back to the USA and to stop the Blackfoot and my Cree ancestors from constantly scalping each other. The UK could fit into my province a few times but we only have a population of a few million. Clean, well there are days that I look down the hill into the downtown and see heavy smog, not Beijing smog, but still dirty. Summer before last I couldn't see further than a few houses down the street because of the smoke from forest fires in BC, N Alberta and south in Montana. Some of the elderly people on my street were having breathing problems from it.
Gorgeous photos JC. I know what you mean about history and connections with past events and people. I hope the Blackfoot and Cree have stopped fighting! I have just moved to France from Belgium where we lived in an old farmhouse dating from the 1770s. I used to run an international cooking group and one of the ladies - a Tex-Mex princess - observed that our house was older than her country.
Someone else doing some work on the house removing layers of tarmac from very old granite pavers in the former yard could tell from their style and size that Napoleon had probably seen them when he passed on his way to Waterloo.
Our new home is also an ex farmhouse but I have yet to discover any of its history but believe the main building dates from about 1900 and is probably a barn conversion.. There is an even older ruined stone-built house in the grounds.
aym,
One of my hopes is to come back to the UK again. I've loved history from an early age,when I was over your way I was ten years old and my love of history wasn't as intense as today. But still, I'll tell ya right now, I was the happiest 10yr old boy in the world, that first morning, waking up in a farm house in Ireland, that was built in the early 1600s.
Obelixx,
Not to worry this was the last battle between my ancestors and our traditional enemies. My side lost.
https://shrineodreams.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/the-battle-of-belly-river/