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[A Lark Ascending]

I keep reading about long-term drought there. Good to know there's enough water for consumption and scenic beauty. Certainly a pretty sight. 

Law and order must be pretty good in California. If those letters were in Britain you'd wake up every morning to find them in a different order. 

[Shawn]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

I keep reading about long-term drought there. Good to know there's enough water for consumption and scenic beauty. Certainly a pretty sight. 

Law and order must be pretty good in California. If those letters were in Britain you'd wake up every morning to find them in a different order. 

We are still in a drought (and have been for 5 years), the promised El Nino never delivered.  The Governor just made water restrictions permanent.  Most of the water Southern California uses is piped down from the mountains in Northern California.  We got just enough rain over the winter to make things green for the spring, but that probably won't last as once you hit summer it probably won't rain again until November.  Los Angeles averages 350 days of sunshine per year.  

 

The Hollywood sign has seen a share of pranks over the years where people got up and changed the spelling, usually by draping massive pieces of cloth over the letters.  The letters are 50 feet tall, so probably not re-arrangeable.  

January 1, 1976.  

[A Lark Ascending]

Very good! (the picture, not the drought!).

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Dorset, UK: No more summer here: a man walks up Gold Hill in Shaftesbury in the heavy rain Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock

"Bugger! Walked all that way and they'd run out of Hovis."

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/11/photo-highlights-of-the-day-cannes-film-festival-and-a-yogi-lemur

Edited May 12, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[sidewinder]

12 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Very good! (the picture, not the drought!).

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Dorset, UK: No more summer here: a man walks up Gold Hill in Shaftesbury in the heavy rain Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock

"Bugger! Walked all that way and they'd run out of Hovis."

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/11/photo-highlights-of-the-day-cannes-film-festival-and-a-yogi-lemur

I was actually there (Shaftesbury) today !

Not on Gold Hill but I sometimes walk up and down it. There is actually an Oxfam Shop with LPs at the top (not much cop, mainly Classical and Max Bygraves ).

Picturesque as it is, those houses would be a maintenance nightmare..

Edited May 12, 2016 by sidewinder

[A Lark Ascending]

55 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

I was actually there (Shaftesbury) today !

Not on Gold Hill but I sometimes walk up and down it. There is actually an Oxfam Shop with LPs at the top (not much cop, mainly Classical and Max Bygraves ).

Picturesque as it is, those houses would be a maintenance nightmare..

Ah, "Max Bygraves Sings Schnabel". Such touch! Such tone!

Been there once many years ago. Was disappointed that it was not a Southern enclave of people speaking in Yorkshire accents. Always thought it was a bit like those hamlets in the Appalachians where they still talk like Shakespeare. Very pretty place. 

[A Lark Ascending]

Bad Münder am Deister, GermanyMotorists drive on a winding country road past rapeseed fields in Lower Saxony: Photograph: Julian Stratenschulte/AFP/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/12/photo-highlights-of-the-day-protesters-and-pilgrims

Tahiti Club - Saint-Tropez, France: Photograph: © 2016 Gray Malin, graymalin.com/Abrams & Chronicle

Some enforcer must go round with a ruler. Not like Blackpool. 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/may/12/beautiful-beaches-around-the-world-in-pictures

Edited May 13, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Dorset, UK - A couple walk their dog along the beach at Durdle Door with the English Channel connecting Britain to mainland Europe seen behind Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

I like the choice of words in the caption. 

New York, US - The Statue of Liberty is seen as the sun sets Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/13/photo-highlights-a-giant-mao-statue-and-a-donald-trump-speaker

[alankin]

16 hours ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Dorset, UK - A couple walk their dog along the beach at Durdle Door with the English Channel connecting Britain to mainland Europe seen behind Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

I like the choice of words in the caption. 

Nice words.  For how long will it still be connected?

[A Lark Ascending]

It's touch and go. Though with Boris foaming about Hitler today some of the undecided might join the angels. 

[A Lark Ascending]

Scotland, UK: The Flying Scotsman steams through the Scottish countryside with the Forth Bridge in the background on its Borders Railway and Forth Bridge tour Photograph: Keith Campbell

Though I preferred this shot that they had up yesterday (whizzing past Holy Island, Northumbria):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36292974

Venice, Italy: Rowers go through the Grand Canal during the 42nd Venice Vogalonga. The Vogalonga is a non-competitive boat race that began 42-years ago to protest against the growing use of powerboats in Venice Photograph: Awakening/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/15/photo-highlights-of-the-day-the-flying-scotsman-and-an-art-installation-in-the-nevada-desert

Edited May 16, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Treplin, Germany: An aerial view of a farmer at work in a field near Treplin Photograph: Patrick Pleul/EPA

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/17/photo-highlights-of-the-day-marmosets-the-largest-passenger-ship

[A Lark Ascending]

Crown engine at Botallack mine in the 1890s - Photograph: Gibson of Scilly/BNPS

One of my favourite spots in Cornwall (and, by chance, my avatar). Fantastic range of old photos of Cornwall in the Guardian today:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2016/may/19/everyday-life-in-cornwall-captured-in-the-19th-century-in-pictures

[A Lark Ascending]

The ceiling at Jameh mosque, Yazd, Iran

The Pink mosque, or Nasir al-mulk mosque, is a historic site in Shiraz 

From a set of extraordinary photos of Iran's 'travel hotspots' here: 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/gallery/2016/may/19/irans-travel-hotspots-in-pictures

[A Lark Ascending]

Some very nice 17th C landscapes: 

I like 'The French Sea' - don't let the Brexiteers see that! 

http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/may/21/albions-glorious-ile-the-400-year-old-colouring-book-in-pictures

[Shawn]

[A Lark Ascending]

14 hours ago, Shawn said:

 

Do Californian seagulls pinch your pasties like the Cornish ones do?

 

Chengdu, China - A worker collects wheat in a field Photograph: Feature China/Barcroft Images

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/24/best-photographs-of-the-day-a-greasy-climb-and-a-baby-hippo

 

 

 

[Shawn]

1 hour ago, A Lark Ascending said:

Do Californian seagulls pinch your pasties like the Cornish ones do?

 

Going to need a yank translation for that! 

I know pinch means steal (here it's what you do to a girls butt that usually gets you slapped), but not sure about pastie, that term is usually reserved for the little adhesive circles that strippers wear over their nipples. 

[A Lark Ascending]

1 hour ago, Shawn said:

Going to need a yank translation for that! 

I know pinch means steal (here it's what you do to a girls butt that usually gets you slapped), but not sure about pastie, that term is usually reserved for the little adhesive circles that strippers wear over their nipples. 

Sorry! We've had the pasty confusion here before.

A pasty is a savoury pie type thing associated with Cornwall - fast food for tin miners (in the olden days) and holidaymakers (now).

With so much food eaten openly in Cornwall (south-west tip of England with beaches on three sides) in the tourist centres, the seagulls get quite aggressive and will swoop and pinch anything - pasties, ice-creams etc. 

 

Regular headline news in the local papers! 

Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall - so I imagine having her pasty pinched probably inspired 'The Birds' (though she was probably a bit too grand to eat a pasty). 

[Shawn]

Yes, seagulls aren't exactly polite if they want something they come after it.  Hold on tight to your food. 

[Tim McG]

On 5/11/2016 at 2:02 PM, Shawn said:

We are still in a drought (and have been for 5 years), the promised El Nino never delivered.  The Governor just made water restrictions permanent.  Most of the water Southern California uses is piped down from the mountains in Northern California.  We got just enough rain over the winter to make things green for the spring, but that probably won't last as once you hit summer it probably won't rain again until November.  Los Angeles averages 350 days of sunshine per year.  

 

The Hollywood sign has seen a share of pranks over the years where people got up and changed the spelling, usually by draping massive pieces of cloth over the letters.  The letters are 50 feet tall, so probably not re-arrangeable.  

January 1, 1976.  

The good news is the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near where I live was 91% of normal. Last year it was 20% of normal. Problem is we will need four more years like this to get the water table back up.

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I remember when one of the letters fell down on the Hollywood sign and it read Hollwod. Dr. Dimento, a local DJ at the time, had a field day with that one.

Edited May 26, 2016 by Tim McG

[Aggie87]

May 12th - Jackson Square, New Orleans

[A Lark Ascending]

Authorities in south-west China have vowed to come to the aid of an isolated mountain village after photographs emerged showing the petrifying journey its children were forced to make to get to school (according to the article they are going home here).

Good lord! OFSTED would have a health and safety fit. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/worlds-most-dangerous-school-run-chinese-children-800m-cliff

The 100-metre-wide Lochnagar Crater on the Somme, created by a huge mine placed under a German fortification by the Royal Engineers in 1916. The photograph by Mike Sheil will be among those on show at an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme to be held outside Guildhall in London from 1 June to 3 July Photograph: westernfrontphotography.com/Mary

Amazing to think this was being dug 100 years ago today, prior to its (premature as it turned out) explosion just before 7.30 a.m. on July 1st. Takes your breath away when you stand on the lip - one of the sites that really sticks in kids minds from trips to the WWI battlefields. 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2016/may/26/eyewitness-somme-france

Edited May 27, 2016 by A Lark Ascending

[A Lark Ascending]

Cusco, Peru - People walk through heavy rain in the historic capital of the Inca empire

Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/may/26/best-photographs-of-the-day-g7-leaders-tree-planting-baby-zebra

[alankin]

^^ ECM album cover candidate?

[A Lark Ascending]

Gold Coast, Australia - Large waves break at Burleigh Heads as wild weather unleashed heavy rainfalls, powerful winds and abnormally high tides in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales Photograph: Dan Peled/EPA

http://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/jun/05/best-photographs-of-the-day