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The mist has cleared just long enough to take a picture of the back garden - before the shroud of white covered the hills and forests again.
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The mist has cleared just long enough to take a picture of the back garden - before the shroud of white covered the hills and forests again.
Walker
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...around half an hour later.
Majestic. If I showed you my back yard, you would find that "majestic" doesn't quite fit... lol
The mist has cleared just long enough to take a picture of the back garden - before the shroud of white covered the hills and forests again.
what can we say! a blessing
reminds me of this,
my greeting to you and your country:
(i'm all the way at the left)
JeffJetton
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Bonnie!
Walker
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Thanks everyone.
Autumn was making its presence known these last few days. I have noticed a big change in the weather as we had four days of dense mist. It cleared for a short while, so I took a quick photo out the back of the house.
Thankfully, the mist has gone now but the birch and larch are turning bronze. Might be a while before the oaks turn...
Autumn was making its presence known these last few days. I have noticed a big change in the weather as we had four days of dense mist. It cleared for a short while, so I took a quick photo out the back of the house.
Thankfully, the mist has gone now but the birch and larch are turning bronze. Might be a while before the oaks turn...
Lovely picture. Autumn also well advanced at my back porch view too.
JeffJetton
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This thread is better than watching "Escape to the Country" 
Walker
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That Yorkshire view is gorgeously green @saundersbp. Is that a textile mill in the photo? Wonderful stuff.
@losthobos, awesome coast and sky. Makes me want to go on holiday there.
@Tom, thanks for sharing. Mind and watch out for grizzlies and things that want to envenomate you.
@losthobos, awesome coast and sky. Makes me want to go on holiday there.
@Tom, thanks for sharing. Mind and watch out for grizzlies and things that want to envenomate you.
Thanks, nope textiles were more west Yorkshire, that is a paper mill. Usually the industry here is all limestone related or farming : plagues of sheep on every available surface here. A good argument for vegetarianism!
Yeah, this fellow has been around lately (friend's pic, I have not seen him). Black bears, yes, but no grizzlies in Wisconsin.That Yorkshire view is gorgeously green @saundersbp. Is that a textile mill in the photo? Wonderful stuff.
@losthobos, awesome coast and sky. Makes me want to go on holiday there.
@Tom, thanks for sharing. Mind and watch out for grizzlies and things that want to envenomate you.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
We saw a clip on the news, here, of a tourist fending off a black bear, that had chased him up a tree, with his foot. Eventually the bear gave up.
Of course, here, we had a great white shark take a huge bite out of a surf skier's canoe half a mile off shore one of our suburban beaches
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See here:
www.9news.com.au
Of course, here, we had a great white shark take a huge bite out of a surf skier's canoe half a mile off shore one of our suburban beaches
.See here:
Surf ski paddler uninjured after shark bites giant hole in his craft
A young surf ski paddler competing off a South Australian beach had a lucky escape today after a shark bit...
www.9news.com.au
Walker
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Wow @Tom, Wisconsin has an incredibly rich natural heritage. I just spent some time reading about bobcats, lynx, rattlesnakes, northern black widow spiders, black bears, coyotes, skunks etc... In the UK, we have only a fraction of the variety of wildlife. Total respect to anyone who lives in the woods with the howling wolves. 
We don't really have any wildlife that would make you check your boots before putting them on, or think twice before lifting firewood from the pile. When I was a kid my mother used to tell me stories about spookie things, like Will o' the wisp or the banshee. I think it's a country thing to tell such stories. In the absence of rattlesnakes and mountain lions, I suppose ghost stories and the likes kept me enthrawled, especially as the late autumn days drew in.
That said, I was walking recently near a forest on the edge of Loch Ness. I heard the most unearthly, prehistoric, screeching sound from deep amongst the pines. I have never heard such a noise and would not like to meet the creature that made it. Just sayin'...
We don't really have any wildlife that would make you check your boots before putting them on, or think twice before lifting firewood from the pile. When I was a kid my mother used to tell me stories about spookie things, like Will o' the wisp or the banshee. I think it's a country thing to tell such stories. In the absence of rattlesnakes and mountain lions, I suppose ghost stories and the likes kept me enthrawled, especially as the late autumn days drew in.
That said, I was walking recently near a forest on the edge of Loch Ness. I heard the most unearthly, prehistoric, screeching sound from deep amongst the pines. I have never heard such a noise and would not like to meet the creature that made it. Just sayin'...
Walker
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Australia is amazing but scary. Crocs and sharks, even before you set foot on land.We saw a clip on the news, here, of a tourist fending off a black bear, that had chased him up a tree, with his foot. Eventually the bear gave up.
Of course, here, we had a great white shark take a huge bite out of a surf skier's canoe half a mile off shore one of our suburban beaches
See here:
Surf ski paddler uninjured after shark bites giant hole in his craft
A young surf ski paddler competing off a South Australian beach had a lucky escape today after a shark bit...
Be careful Stewart! Your view is certainly spectacular.Wow @Tom, Wisconsin has an incredibly rich natural heritage. I just spent some time reading about bobcats, lynx, rattlesnakes, northern black widow spiders, black bears, coyotes, skunks etc... In the UK, we have only a fraction of the variety of wildlife. Total respect to anyone who lives in the woods with the howling wolves.
We don't really have any wildlife that would make you check your boots before putting them on, or think twice before lifting firewood from the pile. When I was a kid my mother used to tell me stories about spookie things, like Will o' the wisp or the banshee. I think it's a country thing to tell such stories. In the absence of rattlesnakes and mountain lions, I suppose ghost stories and the likes kept me enthrawled, especially as the late autumn days drew in.
That said, I was walking recently near a forest on the edge of Loch Ness. I heard the most unearthly, prehistoric, screeching sound from deep amongst the pines. I have never heard such a noise and would not like to meet the creature that made it. Just sayin'...
Well, I've never seen Ol' Nessie but I've seen bears (black) wolves, bobcats, coyotes, rattlesnakes, etc. in the wild here in Wisconsin, but I have yet to see a cougar (mountain lion) although I have seen pictures. And I lost a perfectly good Camry by hitting a deer once that appeared out of the fog on the highway.
Unfortunately there seem to be more bear attacks recently (in the US) as people encroach on their turf and they lose their fear.... Not a good thing.
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Probably ghost of an old Scottish tuned accordionist.. I'd have been mighty scared too...
Walker
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Gentle and peaceful folk of the Accordionists Forum, in these dark autumn days I must confess to enjoying this light accordion fun - it is a real tonic. However, I must say that not even the widest 27 cent Scottish musette could have mustered the screech I heard that day. It is imprinted on my mind, and besides, an accordion playing ghost would surely be a benign spirit?Probably ghost of an old Scottish tuned accordionist.. I'd have been mighty scared too...
No, this eerie, otherworldly noise was far worse and bloodcurdling. This is no tale of Nessie nor of cunning water kelpie. I sense something far more terrible ... Local folk many decades ago heard tell of a strange and hideous magic on the Loch. But I must stop there, as I would not wish you to be frightened. Maybe one day I will elaborate...
In the meantime, I leave you with something far more frightening than a Scottish tuned accordion. Beware the phantom music of the CBA.
Don't have nightmares...
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