Pictures Taken By you...

Just realised i left out two of my favourite pics! :eek:

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Wow! Those are gorgeous! I've been to London twice, once for a whole week, and another time just overnight. Even though I was there for a week, I didn't see as much as you did, though. I could kick myself now.

I don't think I could live in London - too big - but it's a fascinating city, I think.

I'm hoping my husband and I can go to Italy, especially Florence, this summer, but it's dependent on finances.

Beautiful photos! :)

Beautiful pictures Niamh. I enjoyed London very much when I was there.

I liked your koala bear IJustMadeThatUp.

Wow, I love the black and white Niamh. You've just made me add London to the top of my must see list with Japan. Where else have you travelled? Do you already have those pics up? If not, share please! I have a bad case of the travel bug, but it feels as though my feet are stuck in concrete blocks.

Oh and thanks Virgil. I waste so much "Work time" taking pictures... Some have surely got to turn ok... Right?

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Wow, I love the black and white Niamh. You've just made me add London to the top of my must see list with Japan. Where else have you travelled? Do you already have those pics up? If not, share please! I have a bad case of the travel bug, but it feels as though my feet are stuck in concrete blocks.

Oh and thanks Virgil. I waste so much "Work time" taking pictures... Some have surely got to turn ok... Right?

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Oh i like to travel. I havent been many places outside of Europe, but i was in your land back in Sept. I have cool piccys of Koalas and Turtles from Turanga Zoo.
Obviously i've been to many places in Ireland. I've been to scotland (Oban, Mallaig, Fort William(and Places around there), Inverness, Greenock, Turriff, Banff, Aberdeen, Tomintoul, Braemar and Edinburgh), England (Worcester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Birmingham, London (and area), Reading, Stratford Upon Avon, Newcastle, Haltwhistle, Bristol and a few other places... names forgotten), Italy (Vantamiglia<sp?>, Milan, Rome, Florence, Brindisi), France (Roscoff, Chartres, Frejus-St Raphel, Cannes, St Tropez) Monacco, Grand Caneria, Belgium (Brussels, Leuven)... think thats it...
Outside Europe I've been to Australia (Sydney, Cairns, Airlie and the Whitsundays) New Zealand (Auckland, Waipu) and Singapore.
Still plenty of places i have to see!
And there are pics of some of these in this thread. :)

Nice pictures Niamh, they bring London to life. Excellent stuff.

I have been busy with a new arrival in the family. He needs so much time and attention, I just can't read or post on the internet any more:

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What an adorable little boy! :)

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Nice pictures Niamh, they bring London to life. Excellent stuff.

I have been busy with a new arrival in the family. He needs so much time and attention, I just can't read or post on the internet any more:

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Oh my God, he's adorable Kafka. A yellow Lab, just like my dog. Nothing loves life like a puppy. :)

Sooo Cute!

Great photos! It seems you've got lots of room for him to run round in too.
I miss my black lab now. I remember when she was a pup and used to nip at my heels when I was a wee kid.

Thanks for all the complements. Max IS a real show-stopper. Yes there is a lot of space for him to run. He is already trained to 'sit' and stay 'down' and he is very good at fetching although he is only 14 weeks old. He has never made mess inside the house and waits till morning when I let him out to do his business. I love him to bits. Never thought an animal would change our lives so thoroughly. He has enriched our lives as a family.

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Thanks for all the complements. Max IS a real show-stopper. Yes there is a lot of space for him to run. He is already trained to 'sit' and stay 'down' and he is very good at fetching although he is only 14 weeks old. He has never made mess inside the house and waits till morning when I let him out to do his business. I love him to bits. Never thought an animal would change our lives so thoroughly. He has enriched our lives as a family.

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A pet, especially a dog for me, is incredibly enriching to a family. I once had a boss who said that after children a dog completes a family. He sounds like a real smart one and you must be training him very well. :)

Actually Kafka, check out my blog. This entry has a few picturs of my Brandi: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=7933.

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A pet, especially a dog for me, is incredibly enriching to a family. I once had a boss who said that after children a dog completes a family. He sounds like a real smart one and you must be training him very well. :)

Actually Kafka, check out my blog. This entry has a few picturs of my Brandi: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=7933.

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Oh, Brandi is so very beautiful. I can't wait till Max grows into a big strong boy. He is absolutely manic. I do hope he grows out of this madness. Thanks for the real heart-warming story of that Australian dog in your link.

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Oh, Brandi is so very beautiful. I can't wait till Max grows into a big strong boy. He is absolutely manic. I do hope he grows out of this madness. Thanks for the real heart-warming story of that Australian dog in your link.

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Exercise is the answer for that. A tired puppy is a good puppy. :D Brandi is a great fetcher too and she is incredible at catching things in her mouth that are thrown towards her.

Awww...Kafka Crow, what a darling puppy. Is he a cream or golden lab? I love his baby photos. I take it that in the last one, is him nearly a teenager. He is adorable.

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Awww...Kafka Crow, what a darling puppy. Is he a cream or golden lab? I love his baby photos. I take it that in the last one, is him nearly a teenager. He is adorable.

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Last photo was taken last Saturday. Max was 13 weeks old then! He is a pure-bred 'yellow Labrador Retriever' although his colour scheme looks like milky cappuccino with chocolate sprinkled on top!

Virgil, we have started going for short walks. Fun and games never end. Still he is still awake, looking for more games (it is 0230 BST!)

Kafka, he's ADORABLE!! I spent my weekend with my brother and sister-in-law's new Golden Retriever puppy and her sister (Owned by my sister-in-law's parents). They're both 9 weeks old now : There's nothing so cite as a new puppy when they're still all fuzzy and have the puppy waddle :)

Kafka, your puppy is beautiful! I love the puppy stage, but they are even more rewarding when they grow up and you have a well trained companion. You can never feel lonely when you have a dog :)

My aunt found these little orphans on Easter day in her garden when going out to church; needless to say she never made church. We went there for the day and a big family dinner. Here are the darling little triplets:

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They are thriving quite nicely now but she has to get up at 2 and 6 in the morning to feed them from an eyedropper. I wish I wanted one; but 'been there, done it' and now we are petless. Still I think these are so darn sweet; all black. And cute they ended up on in an Easter basket.

Some cheery spring daffodils on my aunt's coffee table. Lovely, aren't they?

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It's good to read the kittens are doing well, Janine. They are so sweet! :)

Ah how cute Janine. Is she keeping them? Maybe you can have one.;)

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Ah how cute Janine. Is she keeping them? Maybe you can have one.;)

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Hahah...only if they stay kitten age forever!

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Hahah...only if the stay kitten age forever!

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Awe Janine you should keep one! They're adorable!

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Awe Janine you should keep one! They're adorable!

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:wave: Hi Grace, I have missed you. Where have you been!

Oh, I would love to, but we have had so our share of pets in the past and now we swear to stay petless....too much upkeep and doctor bills. Do you want one? I will mail one out.;) My aunt said someone she knows wants them when they are older. I think they have a farm; which will be lovely for them to roam.

Sad news....one of the kittens died so my aunt took the other two to a vet; a woman their will nurse them and hopefully those two will survive. Life is very fragile for little ones so young. That is nature, right? Still I feel sort of sad that one is gone.

I raised a baby duckling once and will try to post soon some photos of my adorable 'Mr. Peepers. He was so cute. Hope he's swimming happily on a pond, as we speak.

So sad Janine. I was about to recommend taking them to a vet when I first saw your post. But what can one do. :(

Ohhh how upsetting! Orphaned animals are very hard to care for and even with the best care they can still sometimes pass on. I hand reared my two youngest kitties, but they were older than those guys when I got them and therefore easier.
I hope the other two are doing well and that your aunt isn't too upset. None of them would have survived if she hadn't taken them in :)
Will your aunts get updates? I'd like to hear they are doing ok.

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So sad Janine. I was about to recommend taking them to a vet when I first saw your post. But what can one do. :(

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Virgil, Easter day when she found them, I sort of thought she needed the advice of a vet, but it was a holiday, so what could one do? I didn't think they were kept warm enough or ate the right formula; plain cows milk at the time; later she used non-fat powdered milk. I wondered if they needed a baby formula. Tiny babies and animals don't yet have digestive systems equipped to handle real milk. I am glad she finally took the other two to a vet. Hopefully they can save the other two.

We had this really great vet near us. He would take any type animal, even if it was wild. He was a icon in our area. Everyone knew him and looked up to him; such a sweet and caring man. Once my neighbor and I took a big white goose who lived freely on the lake for years but for some reason befriended me particularly; this was my gardening period and he would follow me around the yard like a dog. I named him Radar (like in Mash) because he would swim all the way the length of the lake as soon as we even ventured out the back door. He must have had that keen of hearing. You could hear him squawking 10 miles away. He was hilarious! Anyway, he got a bad eye infection so we carted him off to our super vet. It is the funniest thing I still have a memory of; sitting in an office holding this truly large white goose in my arms wrapped in a blanket and all the customers were starring with questioning eyes at me and jaws dropped open. I simply said "Yes, it is a goose!". Well, needless to say he made two trips there, had an operation in which they saved his eye and he went back to living on the lake. It didn't end completely happy though and I won't go into that. The point is the vet did save his life. Those vets are sometimes better than people doctors and I am sure by now kinder. I think he did the operation free. So I am hoping the little kittens pull through. Maybe the smallest and weakest one died. Say a prayer for them everyone; the Bible says God knows when a sparrow falls. I love that poignant line from Hamlet about the fall of a sparrow. I think this vet is semi-retired now but he did wonderful things through the years for animals and donated much time to really serve in that way. He is to be greatly commended and he is well loved and appreicated.

How old do yu think they are Janine? Perhaps the milk was a problem. Tht's funny about the goose. I've never known anyone untl now who hd pet goose. :) (Oh I guess people on a farm have them.)

Oh Janine! they are so tiny! I'm sorry to hear one of them died...

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How old do yu think they are Janine? Perhaps the milk was a problem.

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I agree, you should always use a special formula, I used a multipurpose one that was good for all sorts of animals; kangaroos and kittens, who would have thought! It's usually better to hold off on feeding them until you can get the right stuff. Cow's milk is evil for most baby animals :sick:

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How old do yu think they are Janine? Perhaps the milk was a problem.

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I agree, you should always use a special formula, I used a multipurpose one that was good for all sorts of animals; kangaroos and kittens, who would have thought! It's usually better to hold off on feeding them until you can get the right stuff. Cow's milk is evil for most baby animals :sick:

Saphira and I hit the woods yesterday, and came back with some new pictures:

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A frog checking the surroundings.

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Mating toads

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Caught! Close up of the loving couple and a party pooper:
Do you see the leach on the finger? It was attached to the females head.

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Another view: Here you can see where the leach was attached.

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A frog just floating around, soaking up the warmth of the sun.

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Another toad couple (in another pond) having a rest below the surface.

/Claes

Claes, I really like second to last photo! And the toads' eyes in the close-up pictures look so interesting. Great shots, as usual. =)

Fantastic pictures Claes. I really like the first one :)

So today i went on my first proper cycle. :D
About seven minutes cycle from my house is the north dublin cycle track that goes from clontarf to sutton (by howth) with only a little break at St Annes and Dollymount.
The first couple of Pics were taken from the cycle track.
Looking North at Howth
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Looking South at Dublin City and the Dublin/ Wicklow Mountains.
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On Dollymount Strand and Bull Island Reserve.
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(thought this was funny :p )
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St Annes in the Backround
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On the way home
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4 thumbs for your pics, Niamh! Love the bluesss...

And thats the beach i was telling you about not long ago Subby! :D

It was a beautiful warm day!

I see. But must be freakin' cold back in Jan when I was there in Dublin. Not my lucky month!

It would have been very cold. We just had our coldest winter in something like 70 years...

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4 thumbs for your pics, Niamh! Love the bluesss...

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I agree:Those are my favourites too. Well done, Niamh. :thumbs_up

Some more pictures from last weekends visit to a nature reserve a couple of miles from my home:

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This is a very old forest. very nice and relaxing.

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There is also a lot of wetland here, and we certainly got our feet wet here.

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This is where we found most of the toads from the pictures in my previous post.

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Close-up of the lush moss.

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Colt's foot.

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Wood Anemone.

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Lichen

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Blue Anemone.

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Back home again: The neighbours cat paid us a visit... ....and promptly fell asleep.

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ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

/Claes