Getting near the end, now, you'll be pleased to hear!

These are of the last event we saw - tossing the caber. (Yes, it IS a real sport!)

The object here is to throw (or 'toss') the caber end-over-end so it lands with the "base" ppointing away from you, and in a straight line. It is a solid log, 20 feet long and weighing approximately 121 pounds.

Fancy a go?

Last one - this time!
 

After the Games are over, many of the entrants come down to Blairgowrie (where our 'van is) for "Braemar Night". It's good fun, with lots of dancing, bands etc. Later in the evening, things culminate in a fireeworks display - here's one, and about the only half-decent shot I anaged to get.

That's all, folks. Hope you liked these ones as much as the rest.

DM

Hi dm!!!!!

Those pics are reallllllly cool, Thank You!

I see in Going, going you even got a pic of one of WI's friends. :D

Thanks sweetie - glad you liked them!

One of WI's friends?!?!?! :confused:



















OOHHHH......... you mean :ewe: ?















:loveshowe :loveshowe

:D

DM

Got a few more pics yesterday, and wanted to share a few with you all (actually, only 5 out of nearly 60 - the rest either had faces or are rubbish!!)

An-ee-way........ first one was an extremely lucky shot of mum and dad buzzard diving down for a snack! You may need to look hard for the second one - bottom right, in the middle of the tree clump.

Second shot is of what passes for a Marina round our way - narrow-boats and other craft in a basin on the canal!

Of these three, the first is to show y'all just how filthy our dogs get when they're out having fun!

The second two are just ones I happen to like - hope some of you do, too!

DM

More truly outstanding photographs. I love the silhouettes, DM, thank you for sharing these pictures of your homeland, they are beautiful and help me when I close my wyes to imagine the countryside there as though I was making a virtual visit. :thumbs:

Aw, shaddap!! :o

Seriously, thanks db. I'm getting better (slowly!) and, like yesterday, a wee bit lucky! Unfortunately, today I didn't have my camera with me and, like always, saw a few things I'd have loved to photograph! Ah well.

One I forgot from yesterday though, was this - it's a common-or-garden sparrow in flight. First time I've ever come anywhere near to a decent pic like this, so here it is. I dare say it'll be a wee bit fuzzy, as it's a tiny part of a much bigger picture, but cropped quite brutally!

DM