Pictures

[Griffin NoName]

Leominster looks interesting. I see they had the last active ducking stool. (the feminists here made us take ours out, though strangely the stocks remain).

Stocks are non-denominational

[Sibling DavidH]

This portrait of Sir Humphrey Gribling was painted in 1609, two years before his long sleep.  It still hangs in the Cross Gallery at Gribling Hall.

[beagle]

Is that the famous Van Dyck portrait?  (Unfortunately, Dick , rather than Anthony).

No wonder it's in the Cross Gallery; he looks like his patience is wearing very thin. Perhaps the artist should have let him finish his shopping list first.

[Sibling DavidH]

Sir Humph wants to reply:
Nay, Sirrah, y^e Dutch Fellowe, whoo Paynted itt, was Mynheer Donaldus van Duck.  Soe yee were very CLOASE, to y^e Truthe.
I remayne,
Yr True Frende (as I Thynke, I may now Saye),
Humphrey Gryblynge.

[Sibling DavidH]

IS IT A PIG?  IS IT A POTATO?


Seen at our local farm shop.

[beagle]

Seen at our local farm shop.

If you weren't in the South West I'd suspect local to Windscale Sellafield.

[Sibling DavidH]

But who knows what the SAS are up to?  The new Stirling Lines  is less than a mile from there.

[beagle]

Probably best to use this



to peel it then.

[Sibling DavidH]

[Aggie]

View from my balcony - the longer-exposure photo is poorly focused ('cause I'm twitchy), but I like the light.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Very good photos, the second one looks almost surreal.

[Sibling DavidH]

I'd love to see those bigger.  The lights are magic.  Should I recognise the thin tower with the discy thing near the top?

EDIT: CNN Tower, Toronto?  I've been there, very briefly.

[Swatopluk]

Just click on them

[Aggie]

Calgary Tower, quite a bit shorter.

_{btw it's the Canadian National (railway) tower, not a propaganda-broadcast point for American news.}


Unfortunately, when I transferred the pictures over to my computer, I deleted them from the camera, and downsized the originals without saving a larger copy. 

[Sibling DavidH]

Never mind - as Swato said, they get quite a lot bigger if you click on them.  I love that view. 

Did you know that in many of the SF books by Jack Vance, the Holy Shin of the god Kalzibah is worshipped in Calgary?
_{I'm ashamed to say that's the only thing I know about it}