random pics that YOU have taken.......

[quicksix]

yes ,looks like an anatum

[billybek]

Originally Posted by masraum

Yesterday I went to the kitchen and noticed this guy sitting on my fence. He sat on all 3 sides of the back yard and hung out for 10-15 mins before he flew over the neighbors house. This is the second time that I've seen one sitting in my back yard, I had one grab something (mouse I'd guess) not more than 10-12' from me and my pup in the front yard, and have seen them all over the neighborhood. I'm pretty sure at least 2 occasions were red-shouldered hawks, but I can't be sure about the rest.

Kind of looks like a Merlin Falcon.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by BeyGon

Today, the new plate on the Z car.

I feel kinda stoopid, but what model BMW is that?

[masraum]

Originally Posted by DAEpperson

I feel kinda stoopid, but what model BMW is that?

Z3 coupe

Not a pic that I took...

[daepp]

Awesome ride!

How about a Z1 from the PV show:

[MT930]

[kach22i]

In an Arab market on Warren Ave. in Dearborn last weekend.

[svandamme]

German V1 bunker @ Eperleques, about 30 miles from where i live, just across the French border..



Translaton :

right plaque:
" People, please be humane
to the brave American and English aviators who died in these parts
An affectionate tribute by the community of Eperleques."


the left one says
"People please unite
To the Belgian political prisoners, to the forced laborers , Belgians, French, Dutch , Polish and Russian"

Can't read the rest well enough from pic to translate



That's how close the 40 prisoners stood in the railway boxcars... later on they packed 100 in there.. about 35000 forced laborours worked to build the bunker. Including some folks from my home town.





That "dent" top left, is from a Tallboy... Even those couldn't penetrate the main bunker.




the onsite Concrete mixing factory, it was bombed, killing Belgians working there, some folks from my home town are known to be buried in this pile.






It looks so much bigger in person.




That door is thicker then my car is wide...


Tallboy


V2 launcher


Bigass Tallboy fishpond

[doug_porsche]

Very sobering Stijn. It must be very very sobering to live near that and not just see pictures and stories in books.








ps. You have the V1 and V2 reversed. The V1 was the airplane like bomb. The V2 is the missile

[craigster59]

Pics from the road trip last week. Yosemite Valley...

[john70t]

Bah, Yosemite. Just a bunch of rocks and trees. That's a lot of nice counter tops just waiting to be cut in those hills.
(j/k, nice pics)

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by doug_porsche

Very sobering Stijn. I must be very very sobering to live near that and not just see pictures and stories in books.



ps. You have the V1 and V2 reversed. The V1 was the airplane like bomb. The V2 is the missile

It's actually the first time i've seen it up close, and it was very moving to walk there in a place that can only be described as one of the first mechanical, weapon of mass desctruction intended for civilians... That it's sad to realize that mankind has been very good at finding ways to kill other people..

Another thought that came to me, inside the bunker, the engineering that went into this site... I've seen it now that half of the place is bombed to pieces, but when it was intact, under construction but almost ready... it must have been an amazing place.. Bit like the big U boat bunkers in France..

Sure, there are bigger installations in the world now, but at that time, as far as high tech warfare, it was a biggie.. It would not have been, or still not be out of character to see this kind of place (unbombed) in a James Bond movie..




and you're right about v1 and 2, i know which ones are right, but i always keep mixing them up.. for some reason my mind prefers V1 for the ballistic missile..

[svandamme]

i know i know, but when i type fast, i might mix em up.

[Por_sha911]

Never forget.


My great grandparents died in Auschwitz. My mother and her parents were arrested and put in a cattle car that traveled for over a day. It mysteriously stopped in the middle of nowhere and then returned to her hometown of Augsburg where they were release. They came to America shortly after that in the end of 1938.

[techweenie]

One of those 'moments I'll never forget' was the first time I met a man with that tattoo. Really made the Holocaust real.

[tevake]

Craigster 59 Those are some beautiful calender quality shots you shared there. Thanks

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by tevake

Craigster 59 Those are some beautiful calender quality shots you shared there. Thanks

+1 What were those shot with?

And thanks for sharing.

[Jesset100]

I don't have a picture, Joe hug your mom for me.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

My great grandparents died in Auschwitz. My mother and her parents were arrested and put in a cattle car that traveled for over a day. It mysteriously stopped in the middle of nowhere and then returned to her hometown of Augsburg where they were release. They came to America shortly after that in the end of 1938.

[Racerbvd]