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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy
Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World
Ailsa's thread inspired me. So this was my Valley on Sunday evening. Taken 100m from my house. The furthest mountain is El Caballo, in the Sierra Nevada. The church is in Melegís, the next village up the valley from mine.
This vista helps me put things in perspective, every day in every season.
So I invite you all to contribute a photo of your backyard right now, to remind us of the wonderous and diverse world in which we are all guests.
p.s. Nikon D40, 55-200mm, F11, 1/250 sec., ISO 200... blah blah. The camera is a birthday present for my girlfriend but I had to put it through its paces and she doesn't know about it yet so sssshhhh!
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Joined: May 23 2007
From: Frederick, MD
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Guest)
Hey Shroomy726 Tell me about it ha? I'm trying to find a decent pic of NO or BR to post. HARD! Very Hard, actually you might have a better luck finding one in NO with french quarter and St. Charles.
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
And of course as we Slovene people love to drink, here's the pic of a vineyard in our village. Taken at the same time as the previous (I took my camera for a walk).
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RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
Well, all these pictures really put Trafalgar Square and its pigeons to shame. although when I wanna get away from it all, I go to this small villiage in the Austrian Mountains:
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RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
Thanks Ailsa, I can post some more if you don't mind
Well, I guess you dont. Here is photo from my trip last week to Slovene Alps. The place is called Velika Planina (big meadow) and cows are roaming free and grazing while people are having a walk among them. Some of them just don't want to go home:
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RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
Ok, one more for our architects here who can see authentic buildings of this place. Here houses are fenced, not grasslands. People send their cows and calves (noone really wants bulls up here, you can imagine why) up to the grassland in mountains in summer where they stay during the summer and send them back in fall.
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RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
No, Jim, as I wrote (maybe not clear enough) this is a place which has been for a long time up to now meant for feeding animals (cows) during the time of the year when this was possible (when there is grass and no snow...late summer->early autumn). The 'houses' were built by/for herdsmans who stayed up in the mountains with animals. Today there are still herdsmans staying up but this place has also got another function - it's a nice place to relax and well visited by tourists and walkers looking for some fresh air. Well, you may smell/step into an animal product (no, not milk) but you shouldn't mind, you're in nature. Today, you can even come all the way up with your car (herdsmans dont want to miss all their life up there i guess ) but you go there for a walk or on bike so leave the car down in the valley.
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From: South East England
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Matic)
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ORIGINAL: Matic
this is a place which has been for a long time up to now meant for feeding animals
Think the animals got a really good deal - hope they appreciated it !
Matic, I'm always impressed by how good your English is. I see you even know how to swear in English! Err... think that was on another thread - sorry if I've confused you!
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Matic)
Matic, Ooops! I think you've just lit a bulb up over Jim's head!! These are gonna be the new, trendy, luxury homes by the Clyde in 5 years time ... They are pretty unusual and stylish I must say.
cheers,
Ron
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RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Escribano)
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Matic, I'm always impressed by how good your English is.
Sarcasm? Well, tell this to my teacher, please. I always struggle to find an appropriate word in english so I often simplify my sentences. Hmm...swearing. Slovene language in all its breathtaking complexity still is curses-cleaned ( ) language...we have some wannabe written profane oaths but noone ever uses them because they are not effective at all... so we borrowed all our 'used but not written in a dictionary' words to swear from other languages. Mostly from former Yugoslavia countries' languages. Nowadays young people also use some english ones which are imo stupid as they can be (**** and **** as most used) If you want to learn some nasty words we use, just tell me, I always love to help.
Ron Are there any cows by the Clyde? Because these houses without an authentic cow sh*it at frontdoor just ain't the same. Sorry to tell you.
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From: South East England
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Matic)
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ORIGINAL: Matic
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Matic, I'm always impressed by how good your English is.
Sarcasm?
Absolutely not Matic. I was being completely genuine. I seriously think your knowledge of colloquial English is amazing. I only wish I could speak Spanish as well.
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From: England, living in Italy
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to alaskaal)
Cool, if you work for BP, so did I in the 80s. I was based in the London HQ but served in Ghana, Congo and Aberdeen. Always wanted to make it to Alaska.
RE: Yeah, ours IS a wonderful World (in reply to Ailsa)
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Absolutely not Matic. I was being completely genuine. I seriously think your knowledge of colloquial English is amazing. I only wish I could speak Spanish as well.
And don't forget he's only 17 years old too! when I was seventeen, my knowledge of foreign languages was appalling... despite having studied some of them at school. these days I have enough trouble keeping track of my English!
Jb
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