This picture is both strangely calming - & silly at the same time.

No doubt you will be off to Buttieshire tomorrow (I mean today) I, on the other hand, will be asleep

Bill Phillips: I am indeed at the butties today....have a good kip.

I like it good crop

Bill Phillips: Thanks vintage

You've done an excellent job of processing and composition here, Bill.

Unusual to see adult swans this comfortable in a group...mating season finished no doubt.

Bill Phillips: Indeed, they can get very aggressive, particularly if people try and sit on them as often happens

I would be laughing hysterically through out the boat ride. Like the composition, but that little house to the right keeps drawing my attention.

Bill Phillips: That's where the sell the ice creams!

Even though it has a dull feel, it is still a colorful panoramic capture. nice job Bill

Bill Phillips: This was in November Ade and the heavy mist of the morning had still not completely lifted.

Like the mist and the empty rides, creates a certain calming mood. Great job composing this image.

Bill Phillips: Thanks John. It had been very misty as it was early November

Did you take one home to play in the bath Bill ;-) richard

Bill Phillips: When I was a kid they were boring little paddle boats...I think one is still there as a planter box full of flowers!

Oh yes, Bill, I used to go on this swan boating too - a nice pic on a quiet day- is it too cold or why do we see no person? Have you read in your newspaper the following moving love story in my home town?

"A long love story is over at a German zoo: Petra the swan and her swan-shaped paddleboat are parting ways.

Petra, a black swan, became a minor celebrity in 2006 when she became so attached to the boat - which is shaped like an oversized white swan - that she refused to leave its side.

Officials in the western city of Muenster decided to let her stay with it over the winter, bringing both bird and boat into a city zoo.

However, Petra met a live swan this winter. Zoo director Joerg Adler says she and her new mate - a white swan - are building a nest together.

The boat is to be returned to its local owner on Thursday."

The last news:
Petra has returned to her former lover (the mate is female too!)!

Bill Phillips: I do remember that story about Petra the swan, it was both funny and sad.

Ye gods! Giant mutant swans from Exmouth... I'd only ever read about these in books of my youth....

One is looking right at me, I'm doomed!

Bill Phillips: Doomed indeed Sir Floog...you are hopelessly outnumbered...run for your life!!!!

you have me wondering Bill just were i have seen these boats before, theme park i think, will ask the other half when she gets up Lovely shot Bill and have a nice day, more rain on its way as if we need it

I remember seeing these when I went to Exmouth a couple of years ago. They looks so funny as all you can see whilst walking along the road is their heads poking up over the wall! This has a deserted, early morning feel to it.
Ingrid

Nice compo. Bill. I think these pleasure craft look hilarious.

From the thumbnail, I thought they were real! Doh! I must get out more! At least there is still a boating lake; we just have a pit full of rain water and rubbish now.. it's disgusting! I hope this brought back happy memories for you.