Agree, lots of neat shots and many observant people behind them.  : ) 

:m_bawling:

Back to work for me, great entries from everybody!

This here is my part of the theme. I shot this pics some days ago as specials for this content.  This special place here was once Berlin`s  biggest railroad stations for freight trains. Nearly 200 trains came in and got out per day.....  Once: That means before World War II.

After World War II all trains in Berlin, even them in West- Berlin, were controlled by the Russians and the  east german "Reichsbahn", and they closed the yard, because it was situated in West - Berlin.....  Plants began to grow and now the biggest  freight yard in the city is covered with a 50 years old wood.......

The railroad station is now a park and part of a system of green areas in Berlin. A group of artists use it for sculptures and events.

Hope you enjoy it!

billcody

Excellent history and shot here Bill, welcome to the fun :)

Very interesting bit of History Billcody!  Excellent contribution here..........   :-)

This is the last week of this months challenge; and I have to say, it's been another successful one... thanks to all of you!!!

The pleasure was all ours if I can speak for everyone Shari :)

You can speak for me, RJ ... I'm pretty busy.

:)

LOL, that's my gal Tara, always ever ready to watch my corner :))

Yup ... I've always got your best interests in mind, my friend!

Speaking of which ... what the heck are you doing up at almost 3:00 in the morning???

Day off tomorrow due to working today, and more importantly, the world series is on :)
"Take me out to the ball game" :)

Whoo-hoo!  No work tomorrow is a fabulous reason to stay up late.  :)

Play ball!

LOL at Tara and Ronnie--you crack me up!!
Bill Cody, this is a great foto, and I love the history lesson you included!!

Hallo everyone!

Sorry for.... ähm.... interrupting? I'd like to join the challenge, I hope it's still on. I am totaly new to the whole community (and my English is terrible), but I hope that's no problem.
I am also not sure about how to get my picture into this forum o.O'.

Please work, please work, please work...

I know that the topic says it has to be graceful. From my point of view this poor animal still has something graceful, but, sure, I'm often alone with my opinion. So if it doesn't fit or if you think it is displeasing please delete it.

Thank you and have a great creative day!

It worked :)...This is fantastic, well done!!!!

Hanging up...... a strange new meaning........LOL... Welcome here! And your english is well, so what? I hope you enjoy this community, they don`t bite!

It worked and it's awesome!!

With words like this they say goodbye when I arrive in Berlin, so at this afternoon today..... Looking at this pic here, I have to think about this words, but why?......LOL

Thanks for your warm andfriendly words about my first work here or in a contest generally. its a fine idea, and I have seen good pics here.   Thanks for your interest.

billcody

Pic: Same location as yesterday. There is a whole great station in the wood, a lot to explore.....

Excellent shot, with a great perspective Billcody!

I wasn't sure I'd find something to put in this challenge. But I made it. :-)

You made it with flying colours PJ, I like this capture, and agree that the backhoe can be a graceful machine, here in the UK, there are guys that actually manouvre these things to music, like a waltz etc, LOL, I suppose they have to have some fun eh?

Month ends now, high time for a last pic for this content.

It is the same location as the others: Berlin South Station,  a very busy railroad yard 50 years ago...
My intention was to show the steam locomotive here (yeah, they have a really steam locomotive here), but the locomotive was surrounded by fences and decorated with letters as " Do not enter", "Do not touch" or "Do not look at it" or stupid stuff like that. And they had painted this old engine new, and all the special mood was gone...... And then it began to rain and my accu was empty - but I survived, and this is important, tooo........LOL

It was a wonderful experience to work for this content. I´m looking foreward to a new theme.... I hope you enjoed it, too!

Sincerely your Billcody

Here's my third ............. An old dilapidated warehouse, in a nasty part of downtown Minneapolis (MN) ....

What a great challenge this has been!  Thanks to Shari for the great idea, and to everyone who participated for entertaining me all month!  :)

Wonderful perspective in this one Bill
Hey Shazza, is that the mall of America during these hard times Rofl!

I have out of the loop a bit, bloody Migraine again :(

This has been so much fun, can't wait for the next one!!

Here here to that Marilyn :)

LOL  @  Ronnie!   By the time I make it to the Mall of America, I'm sure it will look quite SIMILAR to my upload !!!  LOL  ( hope you are feeling better!!?? )

Thank you all for all the fun; I'm so glad you enjoyed it... I hope you enjoy next months challenge; should be up Saturday sometime. :-)

But meanwhile, spread the word about THIS challenge; there are still a couple of days left... :)

Much better thank you Shari, and waiting with excitement at what this months challenge will be :)..This one was a great medium for friendship and humour, plus a whole kit and kaboodle of great shots, thanks for doing this for us all!

This has been great, it is the first one that I have took part in and the entries have all been excellent with a great deal of humour.   I'll not make a list of everyone, but I found a lot of the info along with the pics very interesting namely Billcody.  Shari and Pj came in with two cracking examples,  and a welcome to Faralis.  You all made this some great light entertainment, very well done to the organisers.  Can't wait to find out what Novembers is!

Here here Alan :)