Veta, it looks like the balconies are all wearing glasses! Beautiful castles. I don't have any, so I'm going with my tamarisk in fall.

Great pictures today. Having grown up in a rural area and loving to hike in Wilderness areas Monis picture of nothingess looks very "normal". What I have difficulty with is the big cities. Bigbaby grew up in Galveston and lived in downtown Houston for 11 years. On a vacation she gave me a tour of her old neighborhood. All the people! And the traffic! I can't understand how people can live there day after day. Even driving in Minneapolis I get so tense that I grip the steering wheel so hard that my fingertips go numb. Give me the great outdoors. Ron

Pam, thank you for the compliment...it is just a ranch, but I am proud of my yard ...when it is all cleaned up and Mom nature has a hand in how it looks from season to season. Nicole, magnificent pic of the Redwing! I just never thought of them being that far west. Are they common in Colorado? This post was edited by gazania on Sun, Nov 3, 13 at 14:24

Annie, My brother and I were in Prague years ago, and were in the square in front of that clock. He handed me his camera saying he was having trouble lining up the shot of the clock through the viewfinder with his glasses on, asking if I could take the picture. I took the camera, looked through the viewfinder, and <click> took the picture. At which point the camera started rewinding because it had reached the end of the roll. My brother then said, "No I meant when the clock stares ringing, which was less than a minute away, and the animated figures start coming out and moving around. " I think we didn't have another roll of film with us, and so I had completely missed the shot he wanted.