Pictures: something unique / common in your neighbourhood

[Nick]

Yeah but how about that super awsum unicorn though? Gotta thank Ginafish for the Spiderman. Fank yoo

The unicorn is fantastic! Now...speaking of GinaFish, I think I hear her coming. Quick, back on topic!!! 

[Ginafish]

Yeah but how about that super awsum unicorn though? Gotta thank Ginafish for the Spiderman. Fank yoo

I am enjoying the unicorn very much, and since I have signatures turned off, appreciate the shout out for Mr. Spidey. Yer welcome.

And since everyone was showing off flowers, here's what the fields looked like up till a couple of weeks ago. Full of yellow flowers. Weeds, I suppose, but what is a weed to one man is a beautiful flower to another.

[KitKat]

Very pretty photo of your yellow field of wild flowers.  We're in such a drought here now, we don't have any wild flower fields. 
I'll enjoy your field of flowers until we get some much need rain for our fields.    Thanks Ginafish!!

[Nick]

Well, why we are on the topic of flowers here are some pictures I took on my property in March of this year:

     

And here are some of the creek and waterfall on my property:

        

And finally, a couple shots of the small snow storm we had in January of this year:

  

I would have posted full sized images but there were too many and this post would have been HUGE. So click on the tumbnails to see the bigger pictures, as some of them can only be appreciated in a larger size.

By the way, we haven't had rain in a while so the creek is dried up. As are the flowers. All we have now are weeds, although we finally hired someone to cut them down so it still looks nice. Just not as colorful .

[Ginafish]

Nick, I like your rocks and flowers. Very nice, and I appreciate the thumbnails. That RockS! (hehe, I made a punny, considering... )

Horsefilms need to post some snow storm pictures from Minnesota.  

[Mus.]

All we have now are weeds, although we finally hired someone to cut them down so it still looks nice.

Does that someone possibly look something like this?

[Nick]

Does that someone possibly look something like this?

That's him!!! No.

[KitKat]

Nick, I really liked your photos.  Your property is beautiful.  Loved seeing the moss on the waterfall and the snow.  The snow photos helped to cool my extremely hot day. 

[Sean]

This is somewhat unique.  Interesting sign on the way to Laos.  They don't mess around.

[Mus.]

So wait, who will kill them? Laos?

[ZeroG]

I think they are saying that it is very dangerous to visit gambling places in Laos and the Thai police cannot help you over there.

[Nick]

Very straight forward/blunt.

[Larry R]

I want to know who the Autholity's are and are they anything like our Authorities?

On my drive to work I pass by what's known as the Mothball Fleet ... it's where our Navy stores ships that have been decommissioned. There aren't many out there right now, but it's still interesting to look at. Here's a shot I grabbed the other day:

[pohui]

I want to know who the Autholity's are and are they anything like our Authorities?

On my drive to work I pass by what's known as the Mothball Fleet ... it's where our Navy stores ships that have been decommissioned. ...

Hi Larry, u mean those ship are being discarded somewhere in middle of nowhere??

[Larry R]

It's in Suisun Bay and I believe is primarily from the fleet at Mare Island. This location is where the Navy stores ships that are decommissioned and are awaiting their final disposition.

Here's more information about the U.S. Navy "Mothball Fleet" or "Ghost Fleet": http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._States_Navy_ghost_fleets

[Nick]

Wow, Larry, that's cool! They are just sitting there in the water...and then they get rid of them? I should buy one and turn it into a private yacht where I can hold DVXUser/Isara parties! Oh...wait...I don't have enough money.

EDIT: I guess they don't get rid of them, they keep them for emergencies. Ah...well...

[KitKat]

How could you ever recycle all that steel?      Those ships aren't ready to help anyone in that condition.    They need recycling. 

[Ginafish]

Wow, Larry, such a contrast in your area from the sunflowers. But still a top-notch photograph.

KitKat - the dismantling of ships for recycling is a very dangerous job called ship breaking and is done primarily by Asian countries. The article I linked has interesting facts about the numbers of ships dismantled and built by different countries.

Thanks Larry - your picture helped me learn something new! 

[KitKat]

Thanks Ginafish for your good info on "ship breaking".   Very interesting article.   

Thanks Larry for your amazing photos.   

[Larry R]

Interesting link Gina. I watched a show on TV a few months ago where they showed the guys going through the process of stripping everything useable from an old aircraft carrier. Then they planned where to place explosives throughout the ship in order to get it to sink level and land upright/level on the sea floor where it would become a natural reef.

It was a tremendous amount of work, but they got a lot of useful metals from the old ship before they sunk it.

[ZeroG]

Thanks for posting the cool pictures Larry. I never think anything is unique/common in my neighborhood because I always see it. I'll look at things differently now and see if I can consider it worthy of inclusion in this thread.

To continue the ship graveyard theme, there is a beachin India where they literally beat the rivets out by hand. Someone has some good google images  of it, and some cool video of them destroying the ships. Here is a GoogleSightseeing: Indian Ship Graveyard link.

[Sean]

Noticed this rainbow over town after a brief storm this afternoon.

[Chompoo]

How beautiful!  l saw it too.

[G Wiz]

Here is a humming bird I photographed out of my home office window.  I almost stopped his fast little wings but not totally.  GWiz

This was shot with Nikon D300 with a 18-200mm Nikon zoom VR lens at full zoom, 1/320 sec, F5.6

[Nick]

Nice picture GWiz, their wings move so fast it's crazy!