Thread: Seen while strolling...walking and wandering outside

I spent a day in my favourite city today, took the MAT to the hospickal (that was a joy - just a shopfront which opened into a perfectly tidy workshop with a precision metalworking lathe, optical bench and whatnot, and shelves full of repaired, repairing and ready-to-repair cameras all the way from a humble P&S up to pro electronic underwater gear via all sorts of LF goodies) and then spent some time at the Arnolfini and sitting on the Quay watching the Matthew manouvering in Floating Harbour.
Weather: strong sunshine, mild, hazy blue skies.
Perfect for photography!
How many photographs did I take?

One.

here it is ... I am always tickled by the Bristolian propensity to be unable to resist a pun ...

Bristanbul / Feel 'n' Fruity by _loupe, on Flickr

EPL-3 with Panny 20mm F 1.7.

Aberlady by Briar34, on Flickr

Two vintage "Bristol" buses, one new in 1933, the other in 1951, waiting for a steam train to arrive at Buckfastleigh railway station, harking back to a time when our transport system was co-ordinated for the benefit of the passenger.




Barrie

grd iii

winter grass w/kittie tracks

Originally Posted by grebeman

harking back to a time when our transport system was co-ordinated for the benefit of the passenger.

How dreadfully anachronistic.
Imagine organising the world in such a way that the needs of the public were served rather than the needs of corporate entities ... ridiculous ...

apocalypse dorset by _loupe, on Flickr

X100. Gone fishin'

I don't know how it is that you get away with having what looks like spring over there, Malcolm! What a serene scene. I feel like grabbing a book and a chair...while they fish. Such a lovely sky - so softly those clouds seem to waft over the still leafless branches...and that swath of rough roadway. Very nicely framed.

My wanderings have included discovering more about the area that we're moving to. Here are two from a wandering just the other day, albeit via my MINI. We decided to go check out a part of "town" that is likely going to have a small microbrewery where a defunct dairy farm stands now... This first shot is from atop part of Iron Mountain...looking down at the cleared portion of the Iron Mountain Preserve.




Camera Roll-2342 by BBW: BB Wylie Walden, on Flickr


This second, also take with the handy dandy iPhone, is down around the other side of the mountain...looking across a vast wetland. Rather eerily beautiful, I thought.


Camera Roll-2356 by BBW: BB Wylie Walden, on Flickr

Well BB, British weather changes from hour to hour, today was sunny but about 6deg C, in fact over the weekend our weather was colder than the part of Norway in the Arctic circle. Never the less we are still getting some signs of spring but some plants are delayed.

Incidentally that fishing pond was dug in medieval times to keep fish fresh for one of the then local Bishops.

This is the larger pond near by. They are called Stew Ponds for obvious reasons.