Jean, Jackie and Patricia thanks   I enjoy taking and sharing photos from my walks.  Did not see the end of the rainbow but took the photo from a parking lot outside a WalMart, did not spot the pot of gold.

Pleasant afternoon with my son at a local pub.  His wife is out of town.   Have to clear my mind after a few craft beers then head off with Jessie for an evening walk.  Heavy rains and some flooding but none in my immediate area.

Took just one photo this evening.  Lot's of deer out.  I had to stop on the road for half a dozen to slowly cross. There were more on this field, but took a long shot from the window of the car.

Jack, great pics, and I love the rainbow.  The mist picture is different than most.

Mary Ann

Jack, that is such a neat photo.... the dark contrast of trees behind the deer shows the outline of their body better than any I've ever seen.  If you were tracing their outline it would be so easy to see their shapes!  As Sophia would say, "picture it!" 

Up to the park late last night to avoid the heat.  It was getting dark when I put Jessie in the SUV.   That worked out well since they turned the lights on at the little fountain.  It is surrounded by trellis and hanging baskets.  Brilliant colors but I did not adjust a thing on the photo.

Wow ...
Beautiful picture Jack!
Stricking colors!
Sandy

Jack, I agree with Sandy, gorgous photo!

Sandy and Patricia thanks.  Was pleased the photo turned out so well, not good at night time shots and would not use the flash. 

Jack, I agree, it is a beautiful photo.  I wasn't aware that night pictures could turn out so well.

Mary Ann

Its been years since I have seen a Rainbow in this part of the country. wonder why.

Pollution

Jack, I agree with Bubble you do have and artist eye. The night picture in the park are lovely. such bright colors. My husband gave me a digital camer, the year he passed.   We have a lot of mist on here on eastern LI, we are between the LI Sound and the ocean. Plus a lot of bays.

Shirley we had a very large grape arbor the kitchen  section of our house, when I was growing up

Jack wv, stunning photo, strong and vibrant night-time colours.....

Gloria, Jackie, Mary Ann  and Joy thank you.    Not so sure I have any more of an artists eye than each of you viewing. We all know beauty when we see it, and I often stop to take a photo and share.  Cameras have come such a long way and I simply point and shoot.  Never learned how to handle manual settings and at this point doubt I will ever try to learn. 

I posted a slide show of the fountains taken over the last few years, check it out in  the slide show discussion.

Jack, with my old film cameras, I got so I could use the light meter to get my pictures and I also had a few filters.  Now, I can't remember a thing about using either. 

Mary Ann

MaryAnn I never used a light meter.   Too slow to try to find out how.   

Bit of a disappointment last night.   There is a touring Glenn Miller Band, formed in 1956 and quite popular.   They were scheduled several weeks ago and postponed due to weather.   They moved it to Thursday night in the outdoor amphitheater and I planned a late walk and to watch.   Due to scattered rain they moved the show inside Wilson Lodge.   I still went up to the park with Jessie, and did not intend to leave her in the car for even a few minutes to check it out.   She is number 1.    Here is a youtube of the group (not last nights performance)  I am sure it is familiar. (If you are in the mood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAa12XKTb9U

I Went to a concert that he gave in Manchester  just before he took off 2 days later and never seen again. I also have his music on Vinyl.  That kind of music was what people danced to back then. Great.

OH!YES!!!!  My feet are flying under the desk!  JeanneP, we were stationed at High Wycombe.... and it was that base where he left from when his plane went down.... so must have been "barn storming" all over.  In the movie it showed Wycombe Abbey.... the girls school that joined the base. Before Cas died he found the Google view of the base... nothing left but some concrete pads where the buildings & quonset huts were. Most of the base was underground in the mid '50s.

We were still dancing to his music in the early '50s.... my last years of high school.  Got the music playing in the background.... love it!

Gorgeous photo, Jack, amazing colors & such a beautiful spot. 

Shirley.  My mum spent winters in a place she had down in High Wycombe. I loved it there. Now the US had a large Base up in my Area. Called Buttonwood Air base. Such as Bob Hope and different people would come there. Amazing how many US stars I met in UK. Johnny Mathis a favourite. Lena Horn. Mae West. So many. I knew the owner of the big Palace Theatre and Got to meet some when they played there.
Now last time home I drove out by Buttonwood area.  Going to Wales I believe. Now main motorways going through the area.  I had been to the Base for a Christmas party one year. It was massive. Must have closed in the late 60s. The plan was to use lots of the paved roads and some building left but all turned into a modern big town. All new homes, Schools, Tall offices. Would not know that a Air Base had been there .

Shirley.  Were you still doing the Jitterbug dance.  I remember how some of the Airmen that came to our Dance hall had learned to do it.  I loved it. entered contest with some of them. Lots of American Bands use to play at this big Dance hall. It was a private one on Sunday and I remember the US service men would be outside and ask if we would take them in on our Member card.  I never missed a Sunday there in 5 years. Place still there but not as classy now.

Jeanne, it was Burtonwood.

I think the airfield you are thinking of is Twinwood where Glen Miller took his fateful last flight from......Twinwood is in ( Clapham ) Bedfordshire, not too far from where we used to live...We once went there to one of their Glen Miller Band concerts....This is a link to his last flight orders.....


http://www.mboss.f9.co.uk/twinwood/flight.htm

Jack, I played around with your photo to get the blue cast out. 
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Patricia thanks.  I am a bit colorblind so have to be careful when I edit.

This one was taken last year at the park.  Did not tamper with the color (lots of it)   I zoomed a bit to catch this chipmunk keeping and eye on Jessie.

That is a terrific, sharp photo, Jack! We do not have chipmunks here at all for some reason, two types of squirrels plus nocturnal flying squrrels but thats it.

Jeanne & Hal, I didn't get out much when we lived in England, gas was rationed & at first we lived in Marlow (on the Thames, Buckinghamshire)... last year+ we lived in High Wycombe, so Cas needed the gas to get back & forth to the base & those once a month trips to South Ruislip for medical check ups for me... our baby was born at the base hospital in Jan of '56, just a week after I turned 21.  Boy, back in those days that was the only phone call made back to the states during the whole time we were there!  Did some growing up fast! 

Jeanne, the jitterbug we did in the early '50s was not like you see done during WWII.... we didn't do the flip over the hip or under, but my favorite partner for dancing & I could jitterbug back to back without missing a step, won a few awards & since we were both cheerleaders & traveled to towns all over MO, we often stayed after games & attended their dances so did a little showing off our style along the way.  More often than not we would look up & everyone else had quit dancing & we were ringed with people watching.  That's when we would quit & head back home.  We both married, only saw each other at a few class reunions, he died about 25 years ago.  Started first grade together so always good friends.

My husband couldn't hear the beat of music, nothing he could do about that, he knew the steps... like an engineer... Not many things he could not do, but dancing is all about the beat & he just didn't hear it, not an ounce of rhythm in him. We used to laugh that we worked well together but didn't play nice with each other.  He hated camping & I wouldn't have gone out in the sun to play golf for a million dollars.  We made it work, he liked to give orders & I didn't object to taking them.  Honest!  We had our "discussions" now and then, we were both strong enough to know our limits & had to clear the air.   

Well, I've listened to the music again, over & over... lots of memories.  Getting out & helping clean up that Allis Chalmer tractor also brought back a lot of memories today.  Kind of mellow tonight so better shut up! Cats are all fed & out for the night so better see if those zzzzzzzzzzzz are waiting for me.  Sweet dreams to all.

Cute photo of the chipmunk, Jack.  We have some at the park near by, they are used to people bringing them peanuts.  Don't know why they aren't anywhere else.  We have squirrels around everywhere.  We didn't see hardly any camping in CO this year.  Really concerned about that. 

Patricia, one time in CO we saw a black squirrel.. fascinated me & I kept getting shots of it ... back in 35mm times.... I guess there was a family of them but I had never seen one before.  When we lived in the KC area we had gray squirrels.... not really flying ones but they could go from one end of our acre of ground to the other .... in the trees.  When we had the storm that snapped off tops of trees one squirrel lay on it's tummy on the stump of a limb one whole day & yelled about it.  I thought it was hurt but when I put food out it came on down to eat.  We had a big deck out the back & the squirrels would come to the sliding door if I didn't have food in the bowl for them.  Had to quit because the neighbor's dog discovered the food & I caught him standing on the bench seat that ringed the deck, to eat out of the heavy ash tray on the rail that I put the food in.  A big dog & always one step ahead of his owner. 

Shirley, back when I was stationed at South Ruislip the place only had six buildings and later they added the buildings where they had their medical service.  When I first got there in 1950 the building that we were in (workwise) had the hospital, weather service and communications.  Our teleconference room was also used for the well baby clinic,  conference table doubled as an exam table.  Oh, also the dental clinic was there, two chairs.  We drove by there some years ago and not a trace of he old base.  Buildings are all commercial buildings with different businesses.  The school they built across the street, in a wheat field, is still there.
If you remember there was a railroad at the back of the base and a underpass that led to a baseball diamond and open area for sports.  I spent some time at Bushy Park also.  The billeted  us there and we had to take a bus to South Ruislip and back to work.  I rotated back to states 1953.  Candy was just being taken off ration, so we could get some at the movies.

Hal, High Wycombe was a satellite base ... parent base was South Ruislip.  Cas got there first part of Oct & I got there Dec of '54.  We had to go to Ruislip for any American foods.... had a PX at Wycombe but no food.  We got back to the States in '57.  I don't remember any of the buildings but we bought a Bell & Howell 8mm movie camera & last trip to Ruislip we took a video of outside the hospital, for the little baby born there.

I think West Drayton was another of the bases in the area, 3 bases, including Ruislip?  My US driver's license let me drive the first year but I didn't bother taking the test later, gas rationing ruled out fun runs, easier to ride the bus.  No base housing so my friends were the locals. 

Well, this isn't for talk so back to Photos.... we didn't have a camera in the old days.  Friend of Cas' gave him an instamatic for staying with us.  Always planned to go back someday to take pics..... didn't happen.  A friend of Pat Scott's (that posts in her other site) lived in Marlow, photographer, and posted photos after he researched to find the house we lived in those first years.  Had a link to a video of Marlow and a link to the house after it had been remodeled in the late '90s. ... Our landlord had converted the mansion into 3 houses, sold 2 huge sections as stand alone houses & made 5 flats out of the other end.  A couple "out" buildings were sold off as houses, we met the people that owned the closest.  Before it was chopped up, the mansion was said to have been the meeting place for the ex-king & Wallis Simpson. 
   

Hal. You are Right. It was Burtonwood. There was  a very big base about 8 miles north of me. Here In Illinois.  I formed a British Womans club back in 1966 and still had young women marrying Airmen and coming to it. Was Called Chanute Field. One of the largest in the US they said. It closed down. Lot of years ago now. Almost made a ghost town for Rantoul after they left.
Still have lots of the Officer Housing which were  made into Condo's . Lots of Seniors live in them now.