my favourite photos

i have a folder of favourite photoes that i use as a screen saver. the posts on 'where in the world are you' made me want to share. there are about twenty of them, and i thought i'd post one a day. someone tell me to stop if this thread is a bad idea. i would like you to post your own favourites, with a brief discription of what they are.
this is beach called '69' because thats the number on the nearest telephone pole.

 

Photo taken in forest not far from me, pretty neat place, thousands of acres planted like this!!!

 

cool picture Martin.. i'd love to ride a quad straight down that straightaway =]

 

All those trees are hand planted, one sapling at a time. I planted trees like that when I was a kid. 3 Cents a tree, 1000 saplings a bag, 3-4 bags a day. Not too shabby for a 14-15 year old kid in the late 70's.

 

My little kitty

 

lol bonkers that's almost enough fur for 2 cats...

 

18 pounds the last time we won the fight to weigh her

 

too cool, both of you

 

2 of our cats.......Ted E Bear ( blue eyes ) and sammies ( black ) ......

 

This view is the best part of my commute to work. It is the south end of a range of peaks called "the Steeples." My crappy camera doesn't do it justice. If you were there you'd see what I mean. The peak in the distance to the left is called Fisher Peak. It's the highest in the area at 9300 feet. I've climbed it. I'll tell you guys about THAT sometime

 

you know what might be easier to do... weigh yourself on a scale, then hold the cat in your arms and get back on the scale... subtract the weights and voila =]

Cute picture Ace... they look like pals...

 

this is the mother of all banyon trees. its in a place called rainbow falls, so named because the mist makes a rainbow in the morning sun, and the falls look like they are flowing through it.

 

heres a clearer one of the same tree.

 

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The cat just look like me when a wacht tv but i have less hair

 

My most embarassing day at work...EVER. A scheduled rollout for a launch, and we forgot to attach a shuttle and tank to it

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Working at home has a weighter downside than I imagined it would.

 

A pic i took of the local grave yard at sunset......

 

sad thing is she's BIGGER now that pic is about a year old
people tell us we're starving the poor thing

 

True city boy. I like both the rural and the urban.

Garden at the Getty Museum in L.A.

 

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A little town called Elk... along California coast. That was a good day.

 

pic of my daughter at 69. GOD I MISS HER.

 

What is that black speck in the clouds? Looks like a person falling.....

 

lol. i thought that.

 

Not sure what they call them where you live, but here in Florida it's called a bird

 

Hmm, that is one BIG freaken bird!

 

A what ???

 

my big and beautifull companion. this is boysie. we struggled to find a suitable name for him. we were gonna call him spot, (he does not have a white hair on him!), adobo (people eat black dog in these parts and adobo is the name of the dish), blot (as in 'blot on the landscape' cant remember the author. english and hysterically funny, tom sharp i think), rocky (coz he would chew rocks, but as he is part rottwieler we thought prople would get the wrong idea), and so on. eventually 'boy' simply became boysie.

 

If birds had "beaks" like that we'd be in some serious trouble. I don't know what would happen to cats.

 

Thanks LaurieB for starting this thread, some real nice pics!!!

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Whats ??? .....

 

kilauea. constantly active. name means spewing or much speading.

 

Those pics look like pics from worth1000.

Some pro PS'ers there. Way beyond what I can do.

 

I got like 30 of them in a email some of them have worth 1000 in the corner......

 

Sunset - I just like it.

 

i have a lot of pictures of dolfins! i think they are beautiful. they come to me when i swim. i always thought it was because i was somehow 'special', than a person in the know told me it was because i have an arm full of metal and their sonar reflects differently on me. as they are naturally curious they then come to check it out. oh well. another bubble burst. lol

 

Not sure if I should ask. But, I will anyway! The XYY in me.....

How can one get an arm full of metal?

 

i got caught in a flash flood and got washed off the mountain. shattered my right arm. its held together with rods and screws and wires. bionic woman.

 

Flash flood on a mountain?

 

Hi everyone! I'm new, although I registered a while ago. Came across this thread and thought it was cool!! Great pics everyone!! I hope you guys don't mind if I post a few of my own, keeping within the spirit of sharing pics!


There's a trail around here that used to be railroad tracks... Part of it is along side a river.. This shot I took from a little clearing/path along the side of the river.
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I have TONS more!

 

photog - thats beautiful

theefool - remember i am on a glorified volcano. the ground will only absorb so much before it runs off. on this particular road the water was running down the road in the same direction i was going so i didn't really notice it or think of the danger. only when the road took a sharp left neither the water or my car followed it. could have been much much worse.

 

I'll bet you're real popular at the airport security checkpoints.

 

funny you should say that! i'm ok at kona, but L.A. and heathrow are a nightmare!

 

If she is 69 in that picture there must be a fountain of youth on Hawaii! Does that mean you are 90+ but don't look a day over 20?

 

Was this recent?

 

maxwell 69 is the name of the beach. im 49 but dont look a day over 20 lol

 

bored, no, it happened in '96. i had been on the island for less than a year and wasn't acclimatised to the dangers here. these roads are lethal. if you come off, your car doesn't bounce over the rock....it simply crumbles into it. the weather, the land, and the sea all hold hidden dangers.

 

firkin kat. if anyone is wondering how he is doing that, he is half on the window edge, and half on the screen door behind it. he was just a little kitty when this was taken. hes big and buff now.

 

This is my sister's dog Jessie. I'll explain the lips. This pic was taken a few days after the event so the pinkness and swelling have subsided. Apparently little Jessie was fending off a pair of raccoons on a second story deck when he fell the two stories to the ground. The lips was the only external injury. He was sore for a week. He's ok now.

 

ahh bless.....good photo tho.