We call then Dutch irises anyway. I wonder if they are from the Netherlands…
The World Through Your Eyes
hivefleetbothan
#202
Things are fun here.
Since I am sorta necroing this thread here is a cool turtle I saw. (It is a leatherback)
hivefleetbothan
#204
Shame I didn’t have my phone on me a few days ago when I saw one on the side of the road that was over 1 ft in diameter.
hivefleetbothan
#206
Nope this one was alive… just a huge leatherback turtle that was crossing the road. There was a person alongside it to make sure it crossed ok.
Fraggles
#207
I’ve been both Oot and aboot today. I traveled to the next city over to do some unfortunately necessary shopping and snapped a few neat pictures I thought I’d share and a handfull of awful ones.
I really rather liked how the sun came down through the trees and how the canopies almost creates a little tunnel for you.
Then a little further on there I found this marvellous feat of civil engineering that I thought might interest at least a certain someone.
I tried to get a good close up of the tenants but I couldn’t get close enough without disrupting things and I wouldn’t want them to get all annoyed with me. They didn’t really show up on the pictures I got but they’re nothing too exciting anyway. The most common forest ants around here, Formica rufa I believe.
We don’t get stacks quite that nice around my usual stomping grounds as we have a rather healthy stock of the European green woodpecker around there. So most ant hills gets ruined every winter.
YQMaoski
#209
That’s a very large ant-hill! The ones I usually see are very small in comparison…
And definitely agree with neat natural lighting situations… I can never get a picture properly, but the sun coming through tumultuous thunderstorm clouds of summer through my plane-polarized sunglass lenses always awe me to no end…
hivefleetbothan
#210
A certain someone certainly enjoyed it. Did your attempts to get close to them trigger the famous ‘squirts of acid’ response? Or were they not really swarming around the surface?
coralinecastell
#211
I own a dog. Please appreciate my dog.
Thank you kindly. 
When a purple ball is the meaning of your existence on planet Earth.
*moar doggo*
‘Get closer, doggo!’ ‘Liek dis?’ ‘Oh my flip too close. Too cute.’
‘Doggo?’ ‘Mmmyes?’
‘You’re a good boye.’
‘This is the last time I spend several thousand fake gold coins on a bath just because you wanted to look fancy on that Louis Vuitton tie, got it?’ ‘Keep talking, hooman. I can’t hear you over the sound of how handsome I look.’ ‘… Goddammit.’
I have an unhealthy urge to push you ever so slightly so that you fall on it. Just to see what happens. I promise I’ll seek help.
In all honesty, that… castle… thing, if you will, reminded me of a hauntingly brilliant story by G. R. R. Martin (who, to me, is a passable author, albeit creative) called “Sandkings”. It’s a 30-page horror science fiction tale that is unfortunately unforgettable. Recommended. 
hivefleetbothan
#212
Nothing too terrible actually, until the jaws pierce the skin… then the screaming begins.
In the end though, not lethal.
Fraggles
#213
There were a lot of them around the base so I didn’t want to walk right up to it to get the close up shot required to make out the individual ants or annoy to them enough to get defensive.
NICK9X9
#214
Here is a photo of a church in my city that i took a while back:
And a beautiful landscape that i noticed behind my back while we were waiting for the bus:
And lastly a lovely photo of my doggo!
Fine Art from Creative Chronies!
Fraggles
#215
That landscape photo is very nice, especially enjoy the mist or vapour rising out of the valley in the background and the sun shining through it. 5/7 would wait for the buss there any time.
Gnuffi
#217
i had to blink to make sure it was “real”, looks damn nice, almost “fairytale-like setup” idyllic
half expected a narrator to pop up and go something like “and over the hill lived a grumpy ogre, mischievous gnomes and fairies, and many other strange creatures”
NICK9X9
#219
Thank you guys very much for the great comments and compliments! 
@Fraggles @WikiTora @Gnuffi @delenn13
And now that i’m reviving the topic with a thank you message, i also brought home some new shots from the mountain trip. I hope you like it. 
(sorry for the long post) 
What sort of discussions do you want to see within the Chrono community?