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Friday, October 30, 2009

Pictures of the day: 30 October 2009

Pictures of the day: 30 October 2009

Birth of the internet...

The computer from which the first message was sent on the Internet is displayed during a one-day conference celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Internet at the UCLA campus Picture: AFP/GETTY

A tractor drives on a road near Pitlochry in Scotland Picture: REUTERS

A swan swims on a lake surrounded by autumn colour near Brdo pri Kranju castle, north of Ljubljana, Slovenia Picture: REUTERS

Lightning strikes as a very long line of cars creeps down West Swan Lake Road in Bossier City, Louisiana Picture: AP

A tiny kingbird pecks at a red-tailed hawk's head to drive it away from its nest. Although small, the species can become very aggressive in the breeding season...
Picture: BNPS

...Amateur photographer Michael Parrish captured the duel at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie at Elwood near Chicago, Illinois Picture: BNPS

2 comments:

CherryPie said...

Those autumn trees in Scotland are beautiful :-)

Ironside said...

Are'nt they just CherryPie..Thanks John, Have a good weekend. Are you Trick or Treating?