Sunday 25 August 2013

Our Beautiful World - STRONG

The word prompt over at the OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD blog today is STRONG. We had been to day one of a weekend long country fair yesterday, and it was the day of the agricultural competion, eg, who could plough the straightest furrows, who could cut wood in the shortest time etc. When I was thinking about the word prompt, I remembered these two guys who wielded this enormous great big two handled saw, and you gotta be STRONG to get that to work properly -



And then they had a competition to see who could chop through this enormous log the quickest, using this enormous, very heavy axe -

I would hardly be able to lift one of those, let alone swing it! So thats my interpretation of STRONG for this week's prompt. 

I took many photos yesterday, I love farm machinery and I love farm animals, so be prepared for a long country post. Today the festivities are in town, rather than the fields, and if it doesn't rain, we'll be down there later this afternoon to enjoy the folk dancing etc. And take photos of course :-).

Until then, toodlepip xxx


13 comments:

Ros Crawford said...

Wow! These are terrific shots and so perfect for our prompt this week ... Thanks so much for sharing with us at Our Beautiful World!

Jaye said...

What a great experience you had!! thanks for sharing your day!! Great interpretation of the word of the week!

mandysea said...

How fabulous!! I love this photo and amazed at the saw! LOL, I uploaded a 'wood chopping' photo to my blog, went to upload it to Our Beautiful World only to see your wood chopping one too!
Great minds think alike...

Love your series of photos!!!

Unknown said...

Wow this is so very impressive indeed strong comes to mind when seeing your amazing shots! thanks so much for sharing them with us at our beautiful world!

aspiritofsimplicity said...

oh my that looks dangerous. He certainly is strong.

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

PERFECT! What a good take for the word STRONG Liz, thanks for linking up with us at Our Beautiful World!

Jacqueline said...

You need strong men to do this work - I know! Wonderful interpretation of Strong! TFS

Dorthe said...

Wow, my goodness, Liz, that looks dangerous, there on top of that log, with an ax in hand....I hope all was safe after :-)
Look forward seing the new photoes from today, and hope it was WONDERFUL, MY DEAR FRIEND !
Hugs and love from Dorthe, and a kiss ,TOO!! :-)

Shahrul Niza said...

WOW!!. The perfect capture of Strong, and spectacular photos of the event. And the super heroes!. Reminds me a lot of the Scottish's Highlands Game. Thank you for sharing this fun outing with us @ OBW! :).

libbyquilter said...

a great interpretation of the prompt this week and your photos capture the masculine, strong and competitive mood of these games very well.

hope that your week is going well.
:-)
libbyQ

My Creative House said...

Perfect photos for the challenge word - Strong, these guys should certainly be strong to use the big saws, great photos Liz.
Hugs Anni

Bonita Rose said...

thank you for sharing with all of us at Our Beautiful World! xo hugs and Happy Thursday to you! Men and their toys right?? They do look strong, that's for sure...! great photos!

dawn said...

What a great picture and goes along well with the prompt. You would have to be pretty strong to do this and just think how strong the tree is too.
What a great day this was for all!