Great pictures
Which ship did you travel on ?

Thanks Will. It was our first cruise as well to celebrate my wife's big birthday. We were really lucky and it only rained on the last day when we were in Bergan.

May well do another in a couple of year's time around the Med.

Chris

Great pictures Chris(and everyone else too). My wife an I are going to the Norwegian fjords in December. It was our present to each other to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, and will be our 1st cruise.

Will

Few from our recent trip to the Norwegian fiords, including a few water craft!

Good morning, fellow hobbyists,
My shipyard is still in holiday mode, but that will all change soon!
See you soon on the airwaves.
A bientôt, your
Michel-C

This morning in Stade over the Elbe.

Greetings to all ship modelers.

Yesterday I tested the model under construction on the lake (This is the second operational test).
The schooner-armed steam gunboat model sailed with cannons and central lifeboats (unlike last time, when they weren't present), but it's not yet complete; the side lifeboats and other small details are missing.

I'm editing the videos to show and share them with you.

Meanwhile, in this topic, I'm posting some photos of a recess in Lake Turano (about an hour's drive from Rome), which is 8 km long, 3 km wide, and 68 meters deep at its deepest point.
I'm happy to have found some native crayfish. That means the lake is in good health.
There were also cormorants.

P.S. I also brought the other ship as an aid and for close-up shots but it wasn't very useful due to camera issues.

Yay DW!!!

I remember when Steven Spielberg gave a bunch of Miatas as gifts to the cast and select crew members of the film "Always."
😉

No more guesses which car is mine, so I guess I'll tell.
In the picture, mine is the 3rd car from the right in the 2nd row from the top.
Dave B

Chris,
Thank you for the kind words. Your TT is a sharp car as well.
I think I only spotted one Fiat in the group. But ... there were SO many cars one couldn't see them all. I heard there were a total of 6 25th Anniversary Edition cars like mine registered, but only saw two others.
There were 14-19 different group drives on Friday and Saturday of the event, so we were scattered all throughout the countryside surrounding Ottawa.
My wife and I were on the road a total of 18 days (4025.4 miles or 6478.25Km), as we drove down to West Virginia to visit our daughter and family after the Canada event. I averaged 33.64 MPG (14.30Km/L) for the trip, which I was quite pleased with.
And, you are spot on with the luggage space. Miatas have dismally small trunks. We had stuff behind the seats, down by my wife's legs, etc. We actually UPS'd a box of dirty clothes home from WV, to make the luggage situation more tolerable on the drive home.
I bet the 2 week tour of Scotland was a great experience! We were there for 10 days last year, but on an escorted bus tour.
Dave

What a fantastic trip Dave and a great car to do it in. Did I spot a few Fiat versions in the photos?

I've got an Audi TT roadster which is a year older than your Mazda. First year we had it we did a 2 week tour of Scotland in September and had the roof down every day. Sometimes later in the morning if there had been some early rain/drizzle and the temperature was a bit low. Thought about doing it again but we were so lucky with the weather. Fortunately the TT has a pretty good sized boot so no real problem there unlike on our motorcycle trips! Owned it from new as a keeper and it's still great to drive. Will sell it when I can no longer get in or out of it - unfortunately that day seems to be getting closer! 😮

The 25th Anniversary was 2015.
1100 cars sold worldwide. 115 in the US (for some reason, the UK got a disproportionate 750!).
Soul Red with Black power retractable hardtop, and "special color" charcoal wheels.
The picture on the car ferry is taken from the drivers seat of mine.

Aw shucks☹️
I was working on the conjecture that the close up photo was of your wheels.
Trouble is, I don't know what was different/special about the "25th Anniversary Edition"🤔. Maybe it was unique to the US market?
Must have been in 2014?
Cheers, Doug😎

Doug ...
WAY off base on the car. LOL
I gave a hint with the reference to "25th Anniversary Edition" car
Dave B

Dave,
Re; PS Bonus points go to anybody who can guess which Miata is mine in the group picture below ... 😂

It's the silver hard top, bottom row 6th from the right.
Next to the yellow one with the black soft top.😉
Cheers, Doug😎
BTW The name Miata is said to derive from Old High German for "reward"!😉
Changed a bit over the centuries, modern German for reward is Belohnung.
More likely is the contention that it mutated into modern German Miete, which means rent as in monthly rent for a house, or rental car - Mietwagen in German.

A few more pictures .....
At one lunch stop, our "server" was Bella, a robot.
There are a couple of pictures of the car ferry we took from Ontario to Quebec.
Some pictures from the registration for the Canada's Capital Miata Meet.
A picture from our hike in the Mason-Dixon State Park. At one point, I am holding hands with my wife, who was in Pennsylvania while I was in West Virginia ...

DW, nice photos. I had an album years ago, Watkins Glen Summer Jam if I recall featuring The Allman Bros, The Band, The Greatful Dead et al. Lovely part of the world you are in...

Doug, I've had 3 MX-5 Miatas. A1990, 2008, and now this 2015 25th Anniversary Edition. To me, they will always be called Miata. Great little cars, as long as you remember to pack like you are on a motorcycle (we have previous experience).

Jump, yes, we have been blessed with excellent weather most days of the trip. AND, yes, we did enjoy some wine tasting (a couple of the pictures I posted were from wine tasting).

Ron, try as we did, the meetup couldn't be fit in. We were travelling with a group, and you had "Grandpa Duty". Hopefully some day we can make it happen.

Dave B

DwBrinkman and Ron Bauer had planned to meet up but some times life throws up a curve that hinders those ideas. Thus, we didn’t get to meet up, but maybe another day.

Looks like a BLAST DW!!! And the weather’s been mostly agreeable in these parts. Hope you got in the “wine trails” while you were in the Finger Lakes. Continued enjoyment on the road!!!
Keep the pix coming!
👍😀

Miata? Potata😁
Ah😮💡 You mean the Mazda MX-5😋
Yep, they go some don't they. Colleague of mine had one a while back.
Great trip👍Only place I've been to on your route is Rochester.
November 1986: start Garden City Long Island, first leg to Buffalo.
Then to Rochester, then down to Philly and back up to Long Island.
Amazing sunny weather UNTIL ... Buffalo.
Arrived in sunshine, dry roads.
Checked into the hotel, went for a steak (an a beer or two ... I wasn't the driver😁).
Came out to be confronted with 6" of snow and practically zero visibility😮
(Had a similar experience in St Johns Newfoundland several years later.)
From Rochester down to Philly, then back up to Long Island via The Big Apple.
A very interesting trip, which showed me why Cruise Control was invented😀
Cheers, Doug😎

We have been on a road trip for the last couple of weeks.
We left our home, traveled north to Duluth, and then followed the north shore of Lakes Superior and Huron on to Ottawa, where we met up with 160+ other Miatas for a 4-day event where we explored some of the many roads and sights around Ottawa. After that, we ventured south to the Finger Lakes/Watkins Glen area for a couple of days. We then headed south to West Virginia to visit our daughter and her family for a few days. We will be leaving here on Tuesday 8/26, to start winding our way home. Here are a couple of pictures from our trip ....
PS Bonus points go to anybody who can guess which Miata is mine in the group picture below ... 😂
Dave B

My idea of a really great day out, and a nice bit of photography.

Wonderful stuff Wolle!!!
I want to go!!!

Hello
Today we were in Wischhafen on the Elbe.
There was a harbour festival and you could see something of the "Ewer shipyard. But the shipyard has been out of business since 2015.

Take a 10 meter hull, drop it in a sculpture garden and get Roy Lichtenstein to paint it! Today at Storm King Art Center.
😉

Incredible photo by the legendary Francis James Mortimer of the "Wreck of sailing ship Arden Craig, St Agnes, Scilly, UK 1911." I am sure many of you have seen this photo, but wanted to share it all the same.

The Arden Craig was a British cargo ship built in 1886. She was used to transport wheat from Melbourne, Australia to ports o the coast the United Kingdom. Her captain was Thomas Dunning. It was 277.7 feet long and 40 feet wide. Her draft when loaded was 24.9 feet. She weighed 2,153 tons. She was built by Russell & Co. of Port Glasgow on the Clyde river in Scotland. The Arden Craig was propelled by 149 square yards of sail on three masts. Her hull was iron/steel.

Wolfe, I took my puppy on a training course and there was another cocker on the course and his name was Murphy

When we retire, we also want to have a dog.
We already know what we want him to be called. "Murphy"😁

This is my Cocker, not old enough to like early morning walks yet 😂

Her name is Dolly, 4 yr old working cocker. She’s so well behaved.

Some very nice pictures there Alessandro - that water look very inviting with the tempuratures we have been having

Whats the little chaps name ?

Thank you very much Wolle.

Hello Wolac

Handsome little chap.

Alessandro........great pictures, a paradise on earth.

Morning walk, autumn appears to arrived somewhat early in UK!

Some images of the Elsa river near Colle Val d'Elsa (in the province of Siena in the Tuscany region).


These photos (unlike others I've posted in this thread) have not undergone any editing (no changes to color, contrast, etc., no filters or effects have been applied). They were taken with my crappy Samsung smartphone.

One of the local bears going for a cooldown swim yesterday. As long as he stays away from my Caltex Lumba Lumba I’m ok with it…I think.
😜

Spent a few days in Wales recently and whilst there saw a swan and it's four cygnets. What was interesting is that two of the cygnets were white, despite them all being the same size. As we know they normally grow to full-size and remain grey until their feathers are replaced with white.

Have Googled it and it does say that cygnets can be grey or white but this is the first time I've ever seen white at this age.

This morning in Stade over the Elbe.

Jumpugly & Ronald,
I have toured both Taliesin in Wisconsin and Taliesin West, as well as a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright designed homes and the Gas Station in Cloquet MN.
As a youth, I had a friend who lived in a FLW house. At that time in my life I just thought it was some weirdly designed house. Looking back, I certainly now appreciate what a beautiful home it was.
Wright was most definitely a visionary and leading-edge architect.
The house I currently live in was designed by a gentleman who incorporated a lot of Wright's concepts in his house designs.
Dave B

Gravina River, in the valley that divides the Sassi of Matera (ancient dwellings built entirely into the rock, a unique UNESCO site of its kind in the world) from the cliff with the prehistoric caves and rock churches.

While in Arizona, particularly Phoenix, tour the World of Musical Instruments Museum, also the hotel that was influents of Frank Lloyd Wright & one last is the WellsFargo small museum in downtown Phoenix.

I agree that Tali…west is truly worth visiting, savouring the historic significance of this designer and his work.

If in Boston, on your many trips, see the Richardson designed Trinity church. Much of Richardson’s work can be seen throughout the country.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. A truly extraordinary place and a definite bucket list destination for me. When we left all I could think about was wanting to go back and check it out again!
😉

Neighbour was asking me yesterday if I'd seen the sparrowhawk recently. I replied two or three months ago.

Woke up to this, this morning! Wood pigeon, which I was surprised at as they are a bit big, though a dove has been taken before.

Hello
This is our dragon's bane. Looks great, only flowers for a very short time and smells awful.

Lovely photo 📸

After the Storm

Further to my post some weeks ago I'm pleased to say the robins and blue tits fledged but was disappointed that they did it one early sunny morning before we got up.

A couple of the young blue tits have been back in the garden, but no photos, as has one of the robins. The parents have been coming to our garden for food but then fly a couple of gardens away but the trips are becoming less frequent now as the youngsters can fend for themselves.

The adult robins have brought a lot of joy when coming for food as they wait outside the window until I go out and feed them, come rain or shine, and are only a few inches away around my feet.

the true power of nature and water. Len