Idyllic Photos from CR4ers

Well said...

To do fireworks on a that scale! Footsteps striding across a whole city...mind you they did invent the things!

And that thing where the olymoc rings lifted up off the ground drew a gasp from the audience.

Nice one.

That mix of ancient and ultra tech worked in such a way that both complimented each other.

Dream fairies floating over the rings as they were rising............nice nice. The footsteps blew me away....what a great concept!

Yep....they invented gunpowder....and paper....and the compass......and printing type..........and and and. Mind you, we perfected the use of gunpowder by blowing each other up. They can't be that smart.

Thing is that 400million of 'em speak English.....that's more than the pop. of the US.

again pic.

Listen to rain sound at lotus pool. spend summer day.

nature

its not from Duckinpound.

Looks like "Red skies in the sunset...are calling to me..."

Its rising sun. it s on the east.

Duckinthepound indeed. It's DUCKINTHEPOND China! You're just as bad as that horrible American Milo....

Sunset WNW from MY pond! North Shore Georgian Bay, Canada.

that horrible American Milo.... sends his regards

Sunset, Chile, about 2 hours outside of Santiago, May 2007

milo

path in the woods.

little room on the top of a big tree.

My wife took this a few nights ago. It's the moon over Sherman Pass from our back

yard.

Ducky,

Actually, as far as I know, that's White Mountain. I don't know the names of all the peaks in the Kettle Range, however.

Yes it is beautiful here and the climate suits me. I like 4 seasons but I do better in the cold than the heat. That winter of 95/6 was indeed a snowy one. I had 6 feet of it in my yard. Several barns and nearly all the quanset style buildings colapsed. When the spring rains came we had terrible flooding that washed out the Sherman Pass Hwy.

From the front stoop, about 2 hours ago:

Wildflowers in the yard:

800 li Dongting lake.

My blueberry picking buddy

come on. I vote.

Thanks cn, me too!

Couple of nice pix boys.

Autumn is a harvest season.

reap grapes. very delicious.

Hello my friends,

Just arriving from my August rest I take this picture of the small and quiet beach in the north of Spain where I use to go since 7 years ago.

24 days without problems, just resting, looking the beautiful surroundings and my traditional Cholesterol-sugar sweetened august diet.

Kind regards

are you taken by film camera? I guess you use scanner to convert it into electronic version.

there is a red area in the pic, is your computer problem or scanner problem? or you camera?

the first one is very good. come on.

Hello cnpower, all were taken with my cell phone, then transferred to my PC and when I saw them I found a bit dark and just applied the self-correction option of the Picture Manager.

I know the first one is nicer, it's been taken while climbing to the left side beach cliff.

Other two were included just to show the "crowded" beach.

Kind regards

As a regular reader, thought it may be usful to offer some examples from the southern hemisphere.

I use this site for weather forecast information and it also includes weekly contributions of individuals' views of New Zealand locations. Worth a look!

http://www.metvuw.com/index.php

Thanks for the link 'Guest'! Some great photos there!

golden reflect ray against faraway mountains.

havest

Needless to guess. It is lotus.

the plant grows in a lake in the summer. under the mud is lotus root, very delicious.

the flower, we call it " He " and the root, we call it " ou ".(Chinese pronunciation)

Once you go to countryside, you may see this plants. we love this plant. we also enjoy picking up seeds, catching fish in the summer hot days. on other side, from now on, you will feel, how the peasants work hard.

in this thread, I posted a pic of a large leaves of this plant, which is originally from amazon, but now c an plan and grow in our south region.

In your europe, there is a water lily which is always painted by impressionistic painters ,like Monet etc. and which is also planted in our china.

what you mentioned to search in google for words of " hehuating" is just coming from a park, not from countryside, they can ony use for view and apprecialte, not for eat, haha, this is very important distinct.

In many parks of our cities, there are such pools to plant a few lotus, such as famous Xihu (west lake) in Hangzhou, sou xi hu ( thin west lake ) in Yanzhou, juangsu province, Dong hu ( east lake) in wuhan, hubei province, and Yiheyuan ( summer palace) in Beijing of cuse. etc. countless.

if you would feel the beauty of the great nature, you hve to go to country. which wild, spread, quiet, you cannt feel forever in the city.

Lotus floating on ponds makes a very nice and tranquil scene. I l looked on google, and there are lots of ways to eat them;

Best not eat too many of the wrong type - I read it has an effect like opiates.

Which specific type would you not recommend?

The chinese pronunciation ' Hehuating" menas a gloriette standing in lotus pond.

the j is my encode marking. means scene.

you can use " hehua" to search this plant in google. yahoo etc.

The pieces of the lotus in the above bowl is not of good quality. his bowl is not bad, Our 's is very good to eat,

roughly, the lotus divided into two classes, red, and white. lotus powder is for baby and for soup. the seed is also goood thing. our chinese like drink lotus seed soup.

haha, I dont know how to speak in english. in one word, lotus whole all is good.

autumn is a havest season, next, i shall place more fuits and "juhua" (chrysanthemum)

Thanks.

BTW - my daughter has just started at secondary school (age 11 - nearly 12). Today she is having her first lessons in Mandarin. I'll let you know how she gets on with it.

She is not simple, she can write so many chinese words in her first excise book. very good.

This sunday will be our chinese mid autumn festival, we all get together and appreciate the round bright moon and enjoy eating moon cake.

chinese moon cake, very delicious,

They look tasty...

I like the Autumn, I usually pick wild blackberries and apples and make Blackberry and Apple Pie. If I make one this year I'll post a picture so you can all have a virtual piece.

Del

South of the ohio river we have a similar Moon pie tradition:

http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/06/13th-annual-rcmoonpie-festival-will-you.asp

Certainly a tradition with far less seniority than the one that you describe...

milo

It obviously made of chocolate, I eat it as breakfast, very sweat, only me in our family can endure such too sugar . hehe. its one of biscuit kinds. export to your USA very much every year.

your people must be influenced by oversea chinese, especially chinese town everywhere, so that businessmen use it as their wonderful advertise to promote their products.

At the mid-autumn, almost every chinese, especially oversea chinese have this festival to remember relative in the remote, their hometown and celebrate harvest in the year.

The moon is round very much in the night. appreciate it and enjoy eating , very pleasant. its wonderful time.

BTW, the biscuit can be sold around the year, but if our moon-cake would not have sold up in shop after midautumn day. none would buy it again. unless next year, hehe.

It is a chocolate coated biscuit (Cookie) sandwich filled with marshmallow (whipped sugar,

It is VERY VERY VERY SWEET. And we usually wash it down with an RC Cola, SOda pop, except I'm a pepsi guy.

I don't eat the moon pies myself, but the difference between ours and yours was quite instructive...

milo

In the UK they got named "Wagon Wheels".

In another thread there was some funny chat about how MoonPie and RJ was lunchtime for guys down South. Over here, the Yorkie bar was marketed in a similar way ;

....close up....

More tradition

That's disturbing, but this is downright scary ;

If one was to stand at the exact spot where a rainbow is emanating from and look up........what would one see?

Kris can bring the custard .

Del