Random Picture Thread...(part II)

[sasja]

LOVE the puppies in the snow... and Max's eyes... and the cemetary shots.. Such atmosphere!

Here is an old sketch I just found again

[Stew_Matthews]

Originally Posted by sasja

Here is an old sketch I just found again

Very creative indeed - great drawing!

[suzyvermoesen]

Originally Posted by michelle2677

i love walking through cemeteries as well. i love looking at the headstones and reading the dates on them. see if i can find the oldest headstone in the park. I'm going to london in about a month and I plan on walking through a few there. so more pics to come!!! but thanks so much

When you're in London you should def go visit Highgate Cemetary and take a tour there. It is very old and lots of horror movies have been shot there.Most of the headstones are crooked and overgrown with ivy and you really have to look close to see all the beautiful statues hidden between the overgrowth. Also lots of cats, at least the last time i was there. I do not have any pictures because i did not own a digital camera at the time of my visit, but it is a beautiful place if you like graveyards
What a lot of people do not know is that Karl Marx is buried there.

edit: just found the link to their official website which might give you an idea of the place
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/index.asp

[Stew_Matthews]

^^^

Michelle. I agree with Suzy that Highgate is worth a visit but assuming James is still living west of London, it can be a pain to get to. In my opinion Kensal Green is a much better option – in fact I think it is better than Highgate. It is wonderfully overgrown and is now managed as a nature reserve. Either on a grey March day or a sunny one it is a very interesting place. It is London's oldest cemetery and most of the dead British aristocracy reside there alongside the likes of two of my heros - Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Charles Babbage (at Uni we were taught with his lesson plans/notes from 1835/6 in the very lecture room he used - he was way ahead of his time). The mausoleums are incredible.

Here’s a link to the Cemetery

http://www.kensalgreen.co.uk/

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery

And here are a couple of photos I saw on Flickr – I didn’t take them.







The benefit of Kensal Green is that you can pretty quickly get from there to Portobello Road (for the market) and then of course you’re in the heart of Notting Hill which is worth a visit. Adjacent is my borough, Holland Park and you can cut through there (20 mins walk – worth seeing Sir Richard Branson’s house) to get onto Kensington High Street and Harrods etc if you turn right or the Albert Hall/Buck Palace if you turn left.

James will have the week planned I guess so I wont recommend anywhere else but try and catch a few of the older pubs. American bars (and certainly Kentucky ones) just aren’t the same as an old fashioned English pub. If you get near Holborn there are a couple around Lambs Conduit Street that still put fresh sawdust on the floor each morning and have changed very little over the last 300 or so year.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by suzyvermoesen

When you're in London you should def go visit Highgate Cemetary and take a tour there. It is very old and lots of horror movies have been shot there.Most of the headstones are crooked and overgrown with ivy and you really have to look close to see all the beautiful statues hidden between the overgrowth. Also lots of cats, at least the last time i was there. I do not have any pictures because i did not own a digital camera at the time of my visit, but it is a beautiful place if you like graveyards
What a lot of people do not know is that Karl Marx is buried there.

edit: just found the link to their official website which might give you an idea of the place
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/index.asp

ITA. You should definitely go here Michelle!

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by suzyvermoesen

When you're in London you should def go visit Highgate Cemetary and take a tour there. It is very old and lots of horror movies have been shot there.Most of the headstones are crooked and overgrown with ivy and you really have to look close to see all the beautiful statues hidden between the overgrowth. Also lots of cats, at least the last time i was there. I do not have any pictures because i did not own a digital camera at the time of my visit, but it is a beautiful place if you like graveyards
What a lot of people do not know is that Karl Marx is buried there.

edit: just found the link to their official website which might give you an idea of the place
http://www.highgate-cemetery.org/index.asp

that's so funny that you said that because believe it or not, we already had plans to go there I had never heard of it, but I think it'll really be interesting for me. So things like that are planned (also going to see les miserables in london ) and then silly things like going to the grocery store hahaha. we send each other food all the time, so i want to walk through the grocery just to see how things are set up differently and all the weird crap they have over there but thanks for the info

[vivfox]

I hope you're not having a stinky day


Hopefully you are drowning in the sea of glass


Would you mind if I redecorate the old house?


I believe such a place exists


Welcome to The Bay.

[vivfox]

Track a ghost thru the Pink Floyd show


Do you wanna take the red or the blue car to the concert?


These are the sneakers Im wearing to the show.


Hanging with the hotties for a good Cause


the apple of my eye

[Beachwood Mac]

My brother sent me this picture today of his house in Columbus, Ohio. Guess they got a little snow today.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by Beachwood Mac

My brother sent me this picture today of his house in Columbus, Ohio. Guess they got a little snow today.

you could say that

we had a driving ban! there's a storm warning till midnight tonight. ugh!

maya likes it, though.

[michelle2677]

Originally Posted by Beachwood Mac

My brother sent me this picture today of his house in Columbus, Ohio. Guess they got a little snow today.

nice house


and that looked like us yesterday. it should have done all this crap in say, oh, december. not march. I'm ready to get this spring-show on the road

[suzyvermoesen]

Last saturday was a beautiful day so we went to the Zoo here in Antwerp.
Ofcourse i took my camera with me , so here a some of my best pictures:

lioness


beautiful panther :


cute fellow :


mother and child


grooming himself :

[suzyvermoesen]

i just love owls


and owls...


i know, you people have them in abundance in Florida, but are they as red as ours ?


bored


what are they looking at?


not very original i know, but i could not help myself

[David]

Great shots! I Love it!

[suzyvermoesen]

and just for the fun of it : anyone know what this is ?


or this