My picture of the day-Where's yours?

[briantrumpet]

The lovely new 'passerelle' shared use path over the Drôme at Crest this morning. It's another scorcher (37C in the shade right now), so I got out at 7am, and as a result got some lovely light. A bit further down towards the Rhone, the river disappears completely below the pebbles. We desperately need lots of rain.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, that wasn't quite the sunset I was expecting... a fairly intense forest fire a mile or two from my house last night, brought under control with repeated drops from *four* aeroplanes... I guess the authorities took it rather seriously! No big flames this morning, so, fingers crossed...

 

[Vertego]

Col de Rousset today - got up here at about 8.45, to beat the heat. worth the effort. And the early morning light was fantastic.

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I really enjoyed that ride up the col de Rousset

 

[Vertego]

Admittedly 'my picture of the other day'...

St. Breock monolith, Cornwall

 

[Vertego]

But this was today...

 

[briantrumpet]

I really enjoyed that ride up the col de Rousset

Genuinely think it's one of the best climbs anywhere - it's not hard (no grinding at all), the scenery changes all the way up, you can count down the hairpins (there are eight of them), you get a stunning view at the top, and then through the tunnel you go into a different world. I can be up & down it from my front door in a little over two hours!

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, I'd rather not have a big forest fire flaring up near me, but I just had to take pictures when the cavalry came in this afternoon, dropping about 24 loads like this:

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Lovely Perranporth sunset tonight.

 

[biggs682]

Two today

 

[briantrumpet]

As I was an idiot, and took a camera without a memory card in it today, for the 1000m climb to Col de Menée (D'oh!! But also annoyed that the camera doesn't tell you it's not storing the photos anywhere), instead you can have another one of the forest-fire fighters... starting to look more promising now, as they are focused on one or two hotspots, rather than on a broad front. This was the latest helicopter as it left this afternoon, having done several water drops.

 

[8mph]

Clapper Bridge, The Abbot's way, Dartmoor

 

[PeteXXX]

A couple from this morning’s dawn walk from The World's End to Sywell Reservoir..

 

[ClichéGuevara]

As I was an idiot, and took a camera without a memory card in it today, for the 1000m climb to Col de Menée (D'oh!! But also annoyed that the camera doesn't tell you it's not storing the photos anywhere), instead you can have another one of the forest-fire fighters... starting to look more promising now, as they are focused on one or two hotspots, rather than on a broad front. This was the latest helicopter as it left this afternoon, having done several water drops.

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Loving the nod to red nose day.

 

[newts]

A great weekend at Valley Fest.