Photo Contest - Take Me Home, Country Road (6/22-6/28)

[Moonbear]

Stuck on everything hmmmmm... perhaps you mean http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/arctiumminu.html (nature's velcro). I've had thistle stick me (nasty thorns), but not stick to me.

Yep, that's it. I always called it thistle. I didnt' realize it was a different plant. See why I'm not a botanist?

 

[Moonbear]

Maybe you can take a closeup for us, when they blossom again. You've piqued my curiosity now..

Hmm...looking at the photo again, it could be something different from what's blooming now. It's hard to tell. Even the full-sized original doesn't show the flowers very clearly (that was taken with my old camera...there's a reason I got a new one).

I found what the current flowers are, and it looks like some are still interspersed with the ones in that photo: oxeye daisies.
http://www.pbase.com/donnar/daisies

As I've been looking, I've just identified some odd things I was growing in my garden at my last house...nobody told me they were weeds. They were pretty plants, so I let them grow (then again, that's how I wound up with those burr things too...I was wondering what it was that had giant leaves ).

I think I have some real thistles too, but I haven't seen flowers on them. The leaves look familiar.

At least I know how to identify the poison ivy, which I was pulling out about two weeks ago.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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[Danger]

Whooaaa, Ivan! Gorgeous shot!

 

[Ouabache]

I found what the current flowers are, and it looks like some are still interspersed with the ones in that photo: oxeye daisies.
http://www.pbase.com/donnar/daisies

Oxeye daisies are great.. Pretty flower for the garden.. Another
common one that reminds me of is http://www.ontariowildflower.com/images/blackeyed_susan.jpg. I've seen them blooming in wild meadows.

I think I have some real thistles too, but I haven't seen flowers on them. The leaves look familiar.

If you run into thistle I guarantee you will remember it.. (there are several species).. Here's an image of their stem & leaves. As you can tell, it's not a good idea to try and rip one of these plants out with your hands.

 

[ZapperZ]

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I think we just found our greenhouse gas source, and acid rain source, and black lung disease source, and ...

:)

Zz.

 

[George Jones]

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/8031/coopersrock1pq.jpg
Cooper's Rock State Forest, West Virginia.

 

[larkspur]

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Cooper's Rock State Forest, West Virginia.

West Virginia is a truly beautiful state. I would like to visit Harpers Ferry again. My family went there in the Fall when
I was in high school. Absolutely breathtaking!

 

[rocketboy]

This photo was taken in May at my friend's cottage near Barry's Bay, Ontario, Canada.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I think we just found our greenhouse gas source, and acid rain source, and black lung disease source, and ...

:)

Zz.

It amazes me that these are allowed to run these anymore. They have grown quite popular worldwide for dinner and day tours.

Oh yes, that's Mt Shasta in the background.

 

[wolram]

Zapper if i buy a camera will you have a (my rickety old cottage) thread?

 

[ZapperZ]

This photo was taken in May at my friend's cottage near Barry's Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Again, please read our Rules. You must upload your picture to one of the picture hosting sites, and then use the IMG tags to display the picture here. If you are not sure how to use the IMG tags, just QUOTE one of the post that has a picture and look at the syntax.

Zz.

 

[Moonbear]

West Virginia is a truly beautiful state. I would like to visit Harpers Ferry again. My family went there in the Fall when
I was in high school. Absolutely breathtaking!

It is beautiful. I absolutely love living here!

Ouabache, there are a lot of prickly, thorny things, so I might not recall specifically thistle. But the leaf patterns do look like something growing that hasn't bloomed yet (it's in the patches of weeds growing by the road...not in my backyard thankfully!) I haven't seen any black-eyed susan's here. Those are one of my mom's favorite flowers (it sure made it easy to pick her a bouquet when I was a kid...there was a spot by the side of the road where I was growing up where they grew in pretty thickly, so I could just pluck a handful and bring it to her when they bloomed).

 

[Danger]

I haven't seen any black-eyed susan's here. Those are one of my mom's favorite flowers

Which brings up another from my dad's 1901 joke book:
I used to love my garden
But now my love is dead.
I found a bachelor button
In Black-Eyed Susan's bed.

 

[Danger]

I know this pic is no match for any of the ones submitted already but it's all I have right now.

I have to go with this... no matter what else turns up. That is so out-my-back-door. Unfortunately, development has taken most of that away. In fact, I wanted to post something like that for the 'Gone But Not Forgotten' contest, because it doesn't exist around my area any more. I'd have to go at least a couple of miles out of town to see a vista like that now.

 

[Integral]

Wow! Talk about some goergeous pictures. I am humbeled, and with tons of what I thought were great scenery shots I can find nothing that holds a candle... So... I'll go cute and furry... At least it is different

http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/scenery/deer1.JPG

 

[scorpa]

I have to go with this... no matter what else turns up. That is so out-my-back-door. Unfortunately, development has taken most of that away. In fact, I wanted to post something like that for the 'Gone But Not Forgotten' contest, because it doesn't exist around my area any more. I'd have to go at least a couple of miles out of town to see a vista like that now.

Yeah that is pretty much what it looks like in all directions around my house, you can literally see for miles. I go home to every chance I get, I don't think I will ever get used to the city, I just miss it way to much out there. My other pic was a lot better but I had already used it for the your city or neighbourhood contest :(

 

[brewnog]

Wow some gorgeous shots here, I think this is the best contest yet!

Having seen hypnagogue's effort I almost decided not to bother but I've always liked this, I took it looking over the Hope Valley 18 months or so ago. Yomamma's picture is awesome too, gorgeous colours, pity about that date stamp! And woop woop for Ivan, I bet that was a bit of a sight!

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/student/E.Smith-2/snow2%202005.jpg

 

[nazzard]

Amazing pictures!

I'd like to share this shot from Denali National Park in Alaska with you. It was taken during my very first visit to the US in September 2002.

Regards,

nazzard

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/214/denali2rj.jpg

 

[larkspur]

Amazing pictures!

I'd like to share this shot from Denali National Park in Alaska with you. It was taken during my very first visit to the US in September 2002.

Regards,

nazzard

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That's gorgeous too!

 

[ZapperZ]

This contest is brutal, but here's my picture anyway. This was taken somewhere at the foothill of the Smokey Mountains.

Zz.

 

[brewnog]

And just when I thought everyone was done, Zapper pulls that out of the bag! Since we've got so many excellent photos I think we should start critiquing them a bit more! Composition here is lovely, good use of rocks in the foreground, shame about the near branches on the right. A portrait crop might do it a bit more justice, but the exposure is pretty much spot on. Ideally you might wait until later in the day to bring out the oranges in the wood of the shed, but it looks like you've used a nice long shutter speed to blur the waterfalls slightly, nice!

 

[ZapperZ]

Ideally you might wait until later in the day to bring out the oranges in the wood of the shed,

I couldn't! I had to get back to my conference!

:)

BTW, I literally had to jump onto a rock in the middle of this small creek to get this picture.

Zz.

 

[larkspur]

This contest is brutal, but here's my picture anyway. This was taken somewhere at the foothill of the Smokey Mountains.

Zz.

That's a great one too!

 

[larkspur]

Does anybody else hum Bob Denver tunes after viewing this thread? I can't get Country Roads (I think that is the title of that song) out of my head.

 

[chroot]

Does anybody else hum Bob Denver tunes after viewing this thread? I can't get Country Roads (I think that is the title of that song) out of my head.

I think you mean John Denver. Bob Denver played Gilligan.

- Warren

 

[larkspur]

I think you mean John Denver. Bob Denver played Gilligan.

- Warren

OH YEAH that one!

 

[matthyaouw]

Just when I thought I knew who i was going to vote for, you pull that one out of the bag. Great photo ZZ!