***or

***"**Wherever I lay my hat..."

Your city, your town, your farm.

*** Show us all what makes it special to you, your 'home'.

 Welcome to the May 2013 Photography Forum Challenge.

Two images per member per week.

Image size: No larger than:

800pixels X 600pixels

and 200KB

Thank you for the challenge Clive.

God bless.

Oh I like this a LOT Clive! Great idea and I love the collage!

OHHH!!! I can do that :-)  

Excellent idea and I am looking forward to see alot of exciting photos :)

Beautiful montage BTW :-)

my home is my castle

My home is in the collage!  :) 

It's a great challenge, and I'm already thinking of things to show you.  :)

The village of Banavie and Caol, from Cow hill above Fort William.

The whole hillside behind the houses is now burnt black, as wildfires scorched huge areas last month, but still we're here thank God!

Great theme this month, looking forward to seeing them.

aangus - what a glorious town! I love Scotland and would love to go visit again.

You certainly have a beautiful home!

Superb captures aangus and meisiekind.

God bless.

What terrific pictures to begin the challenge!  We're sitting in a rain storm right now ... perhaps in a few days it will let up?  (Hopefully it won't rain every day until the challenge is done!  LOL!)  I'm sure everyone that lives here is thrilled ... they've been having drought conditions in the midwest and all the reservoirs are low.  This should help ... it's SERIOUSLY raining!!

And view to my recycle bin is also in the collage <:-P

aangus, what a fantastic view over your hometown. So beautiful it is.

Carin, You have a lovely and very well trimmed backyard. I cant say the same about my backyard. :-I=

Tara, I want proof of that rain? I Bet it is raining on your rolling home, right.. so....??  ;-)

kokabeel, it is very beautiful there. Looks like a place you could get used to live in :-)

kokabeel and Helle - lovely homes!

TY both.

It is a lovely place here. I have never seen sunsets like this before in Texas so I try to keep my camera with me at all times!! :D

Lovely Photos everyone! It really is interesting to see where someone else lives, and what kinds of fascinating things could be photographed.

This is the view out the front window of our "rolling home" for the next two weeks.  Hopefully that view won't include snow every day we're here!  LOL!

Superb captures Kokabeel,Helle and Tara.

God bless.

WOW, Tara!  That looks depressing :)  
And after all these gorgeous places, it must be a kind of a chok for you :) Well, if there is  no wind, it can be quite cozy sitting inside, feeling the warmth while looking at the cold outside. :)

@ Helle -- yesterday we drove through wind and snow for about 120 miles!  (We've had pretty hard winds for the past three days, but it's supposed to clear off by Sunday!)  Bill worked really hard yesterday.  The driver's side windshield wiper connection lost a part, and we had to stop and do a minor repair.  He had to do hookups when we arrived in the wind and snow.  All in all it wasn't the easiest day we've had (he actually swore a couple times!), but it could have been way worse, and we're recovered, getting ready to sit down with our coffee and look out the window for a while.  :) 

Oh ... and in answer to your question on the blog ... we tow a car behind the motorhome.  I'm pretty sure I have a picture, and I'll find it for you!

Our physical home, taken at the same place and time as the one Sig took that's in Clive's montage!

AW! It sounds pretty difficult with such a huge bus and a CAR hanging behind it also: WOW!! I am glad you are over that part now. Yes, thanks I would really like to see how that is done with the car. I guess nothing is too much in USA :)))  

Actually we should be very small people in Denmark LOL! 

OH! WOW Tara !!   HA! This makes me smile. Here you can see cars with BIG camping wagons hanging after them.. You have the opposite :) I am Impressed.  

Remember not having the car in gear and not with the hand break pulled... LOL!  Thanks for sharing this awesome photo :)

Every time we hitch up the car we have a routine ... a check list.  Windows up, fan off, transmission in neutral, brake off, key turned just so, braking system plugged it ... and that's just inside the car! 

Outside there are four different connections to make, and then Bill goes in the motorhome and I stand outside and we check the lights.  Then I have him pull forward to make sure the hitch looks right and the wheels on the car turn.  It's quite a production!!  We're used to it though, and it only takes about ten or fifteen minutes to do the whole thing. 

In the motorhome we have to do the dishes, put everything away inside, unhook the outside water, electricity and the drain, pull the slides in, bring the jacks up, make sure the dog isn't somewhere she shouldn't be (like on the dashboard!) and then we can go.  The whole process with both car and motorhome is about an hour. 

Before we get TOO far down the road, we have to find a gas station that's got the pumps in the right place and enough room to get our rig in there.  With the car hitched on we're 55 feet long and we can't back up (the front wheels of the car would crank sideways, which would be very bad), so we're limited in where we can go.

I do loads of research to find campgrounds that are in the places we want to go.  While Bill drives, I do navigation and hopefully I don't get us into a place where we can't get out!

Ahhhhhhh ... home!

On the flip side ... there's no grass to cut, so boy, are we making out like bandits!  LOLOL!!

WOW, Tara! Alot to do before you are ready to hit the road again. I am glad you have a good list to go after :-)  

Tara - what a wonderful insight into your home and getting going!

I had a good laugh at the last sentence - you're sure it isn't bunnies?

@ Carin -- LOL!  "Making out like bandits" means you feel like you're stealing ... getting something for nothing. 

Bunnies?  (innocent look) Whatever do you mean???  :D

Tara - ROFLMAO!!!!

Boy did I get it wrong!!!!

I'm pretty sure you know what I mean.... :P

@ Carin --   Who, me?????  LOL!  Glad I explained the bandits.    English certainly isn't the same everywhere!

Interestuing fact - Johannesburg is either one of the cities with the most trees per square miles of the one with the most! More fascinating is that this area was grasslands way back before the gold rush with little or no trees. Most trees have therefore been planted...

I like that view, Carin.  Lovely!  Ours is just the opposite.  The whole PNW was covered in trees!  They were all cut down, and then when people built houses they planted trees.  Crazy, but true. 

I have a feeling, that I should be glad I dont understand anything here 

So beautiful Carin.  

In the spit where I live now, once it was mostly moorland, so when I, as a little girl, was standing on the hill in the start of the spit, I could see almost to the harbour village many kilometers away. Now much of it is covered with trees, because of the summerhouse areas, so if I want to see the Harbout village, I must look from the north beach.

This is Bill and Cooper, our oldest grandson, hanging out yesterday.

Home is where the heart is ...

Oh Tara - this is most wonderful!!!

WOW! That is just such a beautiful and happy diptych :-)  

When my workspace is all nice and tidy and organized, I just sit around admiring it!  LOL!  I could sit in this room all afternoon, just looking at the nice stacks of supplies!  :)

HEHE!! We will have rain for severel days after today, whish should be just as wonderful as yesterday, so I will have time for painting in there and I am SO looking forward to use my reorganized workspace :) I have a whole wall clear for paper fun, such as.... popart :)

Oh goodie!  :)  I can't wait to see what you come up with!  :)

HEHE! Me neither. :))

citroen 2CV

green postbox & white frontdoor are mine

Ahh Martin - how lovely! I love the little vehicle too!

HA! That is a fun little car, Martin. I wonder what is under the surface :-)

Yes, this is a good one and I plan to take part.  Good think you said "call home" and not where born!   Aangus, I took a zoom back on the map to your area to mentally place it in Scotland.  Overall is that a bit away from the crowds?

Thomas.

Hi folks,

A wonderful item, with already great entries to admire.
Hehe, I loved the collage, saw one of near here in it ;-)

I hope to participate in the challenge soon.

Love from The Netherlands.

Greetings, Jacomina!  :)  It's nice to see you, dear friend.  I'll look forward to seeing some of your "home" pictures! 

Hello Jacomina. ! Welcome back. We missed you :-)))

Yes, I missed you too, dear friends.

I'm touched by your welcome-words.
Thank you ♥