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Critter crossing - the tracks continue just in front of the bike's front wheel and then under a wire fence.
I always do a shot like this at this part of Tregassow Lane each year, so I'm not going to break the habit now...
A bit of love for the Giant.
Apart from being quite a noisy bike, I am really pleased with it. Very comfortable to ride and with gearing just low enough to allow for only minor grimacing on the local climbs.
The noises though are a bit annoying. I fixed one the other day - a creak from the seat post by applying excessive amounts of grease (it was greased already of course, but now it's greased some more, as it cures the creak, for a while at least).
I sorted rattles from the through the frame cabling by cable tying various cables together before they enter the frame.
But I've still got a loud buzzing rattle from the brakes/shifter area on coarse tarmac. That one is taking some finding, and I think I'm just going to have to live with it.
Otherwise it's all good (early issues with gently rubbing brakes were a poor set up from the shop and sorted once I had a proper fiddle - not the bike's fault).
Just to prove I can take photos without an old bike in them. A pond at Trennick. I'd love to poke around off the Bridleway and into the surrounding woodland, but it's all well fenced off and marked strictly private. Bums.
Bluebells and Ramsons lining the Trennick Lane Bridleway near Truro.
This was a momentous day for me as it was the first time in months that I could ride without the jacket!
Heading out on the Bridleway up to Carland Cross which used to be the old A39.
Gert swathes of the countryside are starting to disappear under plastic again I see.
The top of the Cornish Hedge bordering the farm at Lanner Barton is always ablaze with Daffs at this time of year.
The main A39 this morning, a usually busy road even on a Sunday.
A lot quieter this week than last Sunday that's for sure.
A sunny March day near Penmaenpool in the valley of the Afon Mawddach, looking towards Dolgellau. The photo was taken from the trackbed of the 1965 closed Barmouth to Dolgellau railway line, now converted into a foot and cycle path. Until cut by floods in December 1964, that line ran through to Ruabon via Bala Junction, Corwen and Llangollen. The section from Llanuwchllyn to Bala Junction is now the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway, whilst the Llangollen Railway has just restarted services as far west as Corwen.
ODC, Portrait From Behind and Optimism
We woke up to blue skies, birds tweeting and temperatures above 0 Celsius today; it's amazing what a mood lifter and energy enhancer the promise of Spring is!
P.S. Either my lens was dusty or my sensor needs attention, but what's done is done and I still like this twofer.
The path around the back of Tesco in Truro is a shared path and part of the NCN network.
Sadly, the fence near this spot sported many bunches of flowers after a young woman was found dead here last week. Police have said there are no suspicious circumstances.
Spring is still a little late here and I am tired of snowy landscapes. Gives me a great chance to photograph details that surround me and are often over looked. I am quite happy with my new 50 mm lens and wonder why they don't make it the standard kit lens.
This shot took it's toll on bike and body. The bike had stayed clean until brain of Britain here decided that gate would make a good place for a photo. The wheels sank in the gloop right over the rims as I pushed it into place. No more clean wheels and tyres.
But, after placing the bike there, I set off back towards the road on that grassy bit up the middle and it was a tad gloopy and slippery. My left foot slipped and I landed on my ar...I landed on my backside and then rolled into the puddle on my left side. I was blathered in mud and foul smelling water, and must've looked a proper sight. I'm a scruffbag anyway, but covered in mud as well... Oh dear me, so undignified.
That's the second time I've fallen on my ar...I've landed on my bottom in a few weeks. The treads on my trusty walking boots must be worn out and have lost their grip or something... Or I'm just getting old and dithery...
Still, it's all good fun!
The Royal Mile was extremely busy with tourists on this first really sunny and warm spring day of the year, cafes and bars pavement table areas were packed. I heard a lot of very loud shouting and chanting and soon found it was this group of anti-Nazi demonstrators. I couldn't see past them, but I think they were counter-protesting some right wing eejits (the far right demos are usually far outnumbered by the anti-fascist counter demos)
This is the flower of Leucojum vernum of the family of the Amaryllidaceae. Frühlings-Knotenblume, Märzenbecher
Taken May 2013 - Revisited for Digging In The Archives Tuesday - I just love this shot, what can I say :-), which is one 6 posted here (all one after the other, so easy to find). I took them at a Graffiti and general fun event in the city centre park in the heart of Paderborn, Nord-Rhein Westfalia (Germany). This is something Germans do so well, organising relaxed, inclusive, casual events like this on a really regular basis and this is one of the many aspect of live we loved about living in Germany.
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Set: Germany
Spring really is "springing" around these parts, with a festival or event of some kind almost every week. As I mentioned in the narrative for a picture I uploaded yesterday (see www.flickr.com/photos/globalnomad01/8707780719/ ), just under 2 months ago this was a quiet and very chilly scene and the graffiti was much darker in colour. I wondered, back in March, if the graffiti had been commissioned and here's the answer in all it's festive and creative glory!
Doune, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
April 2024
Please see my album "Old Phone Boxes, New Uses" for other examples.
Spring arrives in England as flood waters slowly retreat from the flooded fields. Spring Daffodils flower as trees remain submerged after the wettest ever winter in Southern England
Busker in the very busy Meadows this afternoon (unsurprisingly lots of folk in this popular park on a warm, spring weekend day)
Enjoying his beer and cigarette on Great Western Road during the unseasonably warm and sunny spell of weather for late March in Glasgow
Creed Church.
This is another church that is a beggar to get a good, clear shot of, although it would be easier on a duller day as on this visit the 'best' angle to get the whole building in was straight into the sun.
Wide angle makes for wonky verticals. Horizontals as well by the look of the bench the bike is leaning on.
Those of us who can need to make the most of such spring sunshine and for me it has been out and about on the road bike, in fresh air and spring sunshine on our local Yorkshire lanes.
I could not face this so point and shoot worked for me....it also makes me think of the crayon drawings made by children, with the big sun in a corner and rays spreading out in all directions. It was too powerful, even with shades on my eyes, to hold my eyes open as I framed and took this shot.
Protect your eyes...they allow you to view our beautiful planet.