Just waiting for Broadband and keeping my hand in.

Here they are. Took 40 minutes to upload. Never mind, won't be long now.

I am just putting in a couple of pictures to keep my hand in. My son has two dogs but only a picture at present of one. He is called Milford and loves having his photo taken. He even poses and brushes his hair. Quite a character all round. The one not shown is Murphy but I will rectify that before long. The young lady on the horse is my nieces daughter at a local Show Day. I believe she won her event. The Tugboat I took from the top of the Archway in St. Louis. I wonder how they steer the front barge, especially when going upstream. The Sparrow feeding her young I christened "Say Please!"

Learning to Hyperlink.

My favourite Web Site is the BBC. My son is a football fanatic and when a special match comes on in the UK he will jump on a plane from Texas and come over to see it. (His excuse is to see me!!!) Especially for him, this is the hyperlink for Manchester United on the BBC website - click here.

The Pictures I forgot the last time

Sorry for missing out last time but all went pear shape with my ISP shutting me down as there was no activity for a while. Roll on the day when I can get Broadband, (of a sort) but it must be a lot faster than this. The chair was given me having been thrown on a skip for burning. It was a challenge as the only salvageable parts were the front legs and the arms, very worm eaten. But it gave me something to do.

Just another chair

Just a couple of chair repairs. Not putting much on as I wish to, but have a very slow speed of 21kbps for the moment. Have arranged to get Broadband in a couple of weeks when doing this will, I hope, be a lot easier. Too far from exchange and old copper wiring. Things should improve. I will have quite a bit to moan about when I get started. Not long ago when we had pigeon post!!.

These are for a special friend.

The lower of these photos is of Cader Idris ( The Seat of Idris the Giant) . In Welsh mythology it's said that any person who climbs to the top and spends the night there, will either be dead in the morning or walk down a wonderful poet. The others are for the friend who has personal memories of these areas.

Pictures from the Garden

These nine photos I took around my garden. I am not really a happy gardener as I find that I prefer doing less hard work. The camera is a Fujifilm 3500 3m pixels with various extension lenses which I purchased via a good friend from New York, U.S of A.

Repairing old chairs

As I have previously mentioned, woodwork is one of my many hobbies which includes turning. As you can see I had theses chairs for repair. The undercarriage was missing from the one on the left of the photo, but all were in separate pieces and some missing. I turned the legs and the final result can be seen. I have always said that a tidy workshop isn't one where much work is done. Mine is a mess. Like my car, it gets cleaned once a year....if it needs it!

Lake Talyllyn Reflections

Reflections. Taken Good Friday 2006. Camera...my favourite Fujifilm 3500. Getting on a bit, but good lenses I bought through e.bay from a camera shop in New York.

Learning through experimenting

First of all I am going to place a couple of photos which I took recently. The River photo is of the Dovey. This is a well known Salmon and Trout venue which is a short distance from my village. The one below is my village taken from the top of Bryn Crogwr, (the Hangmans Hill). When people walk to the top there is a tradition that one takes a stone and adds it to a cairn there. A beautiful day and the temperature reached 60f. I still use farenheit as I understand what it means, not this foreign celsius stuff.

Woodwork

These are some of the turnings I have done over the years. I use any woods that I find appropriate after cutting and trimming around the gardens.

Welcome to my first Post

Being the first time in posting I will just show a few of my photos of the area where I live. It is all farming country so will put in some pictures of the animals.

This is a view which I see when I walk a few yards from my house.

Here is Nel my neighbours sheep dog doing some resting between jobs.