Took these last week walking around a place called Loggerheads, in NorthWales.













These three are of the local park, just at the bottom of my street.



I call this 'the happy tree', cos it always seems so please at having survived the winds of its youth!

Beautiful! Thanks for posting those.

Those are awesome Karen!

You got the eye!

The first and last tree look a lot like Fagus sylvatica, or European Beech. Think so?

I would really like some close up pictures of bark and twigs with leaves please, otherwise I will go crazy.

Thank you.




Oh, nice pics!

You must drive the ladies wild.

As soon as I get a chance... or stop wasting so much time on the internet!
I doubt I'll get back to Loggerheads anytime soon - maybe during the winter if I'm lucky. But there are plenty of trees in the park that I've been wanting to spend some time photographing, so it will be my pleasure.


Thanks for the complimentsguys.

I adore North Wales ! Especially sitting in front of the roaring fire at the Brynn Tyrrich guest house, just down the road from Capil Curig, as the Autumn rain beats down outside, with a glass of Glenfidditch quietly mulling in my hand and the exhaustion of tramping up and back down Mount Snowdon in my bones.
The roads in that region are glorious, Sky, you would love the A44 Crossgates to Rhyader road, then the Llandberis pass, followed by the run down to Harlech castle and the coast....

Great photos, Karen.
I love the Autumn colors, even though the damp and the rain doesn't do much for me, unless I'm in front of a roaring hearth.....

If I were a wealthy man, among the places I would absolutely have to visit would be Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Absolutely and without question!


Years ago I saw the movie, "Local Hero", and for me that remains as my background image.

Us po' folks gotta stick to the good ol usa.

Nothing wrong with that though, theres more than enough to see here!

I got plenty right in my own back yard, most of which I'll never get too as there's just too much.
None the less, I'd still like to travel a few places such as Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and maybe a few almost deserted tropical islands. Probly never happen, but it's good to have a viable fantasy too!

I think the same is true of most of us.
There's so much of the world I'd love to see, but can't afford to, including quite a few of the States... but my own back yard's fairly impressive, and there's plenty of it I haven't seen yet.

You're right about Scotland (the Highlands ar out of this world!), Wales and Ireland though (ut add Northern and South West England to your list too).

Karen,

Have you ever seen the movie "Local Hero"? It's from quite a ways back.

1983.
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

The Musical Score was done by Mark Knopfler, and is some of his best work. (imo)

I saw a movie last weekend called "Across the Universe" and many of the scenes were in Liverpool circa 1960s. I don't know if the pics were authentic or not, but they showed scenes of a gritty, working-class, waterfront Liverpool that I thought was quite beautiful itself in a Dickensian kind of way. It even included what I know was a recreation of the Cavern Club (long gone, right?). To us American baby-boomers, you live in a very fascinating place, Karen.

That's it for therest ofthe day now; I've got the sound of ditant bells being rung...I can just make them out. I'm sure from your description, I must have see this film, but my memory is all (annoyingly!) vague and hazy... But I HAVE to find a copy of it now, no matter what!!!



Liverpool is used as a film set quite often - certain parts of Eastern Europe and Russia are said to look a lot like Liverpool, and because we're cheep(?) many film-makers choose to come here. I haven't seen 'Across The Universe', but the film '51st State' s largely set here.
The water front became almost derelict during Thatchers years in power - Liverpool dockers are/were a highly unionised lot, and in her effort to crush the unions she did a wonderful job of crushing Liverpool. But over the years the whole waterfront has come back to life - the docks in North Liverpool and in Garston are thriving once again, and the rest of the waterfront is has been developed - housing, offices, tourism, museums and galleries... All there all thriving. To a large extent I think the gritty, working class atmosphere of the waterfront has been diluted, but it remains throughout the rest of the city - in the blood f the people and in the streets.
The Cavern is still there (I think this is it's 2nd or 3rd incarnation now) and the whole Beetles/MerseyBeat thing is still big (tourist) business.
I'll see if I can create a kind of photo-journey over the next few months, or aybe in the spring, when the light is more favorable!