Do you know what is this?

Looks like the bark of London Plane..?

What is it? You mean aeroplane?

We have not made aircraft out of wood for a while now Katarina...London Plane Tree.

i have no idea what this is....but you both made me laugh..:o))

Well, I thought you still do, Pim, LOL. This is plane tree, right.

Lol..I bet we do!

hehe - not even a toy planes Pimp?
it is Platanus × acerifolia. You can see them all over in London Katarina.

You can see them all over old gardens in Europe, too.

Don't you start as well Kasy !!

oh, why not? didn't you have wooden toys when you when young? Or maybe you preferred playing with dolls? lol

LOL, Kasia!!!!!

Action man was not a doll...He was a scale model

With pink sunglasses?

I would say a replica of human being/shape is a doll, LOL

Looks like we lost Pimpernel somewhere in a sandbox... playing with his Action Man. No girls allowed, ehhhh....

I thought it was lichen, but apparently not :o)

I think Pim is now hunting for some nicer London plane tree then I put here. He is competitive male character. With raindrops, of course :)

Manchester Poplar is nicer tree.

Show us Manchester Poplar, lol. Never heard about that tree. Poplar tree is poplar tree, or isn´t it?

I chose this link especially for you Katarina..

http://www.afinelung.com/?p=3239

Well you learn something new every day..thanks Pimps..:o)

You certainly do..I like the bit about the giant Dyson..:o)

I read your link just now, Pim. I found this is genetic derivative of more common poplar tree. I again found, while reading this article, that thirties in the last century it was a wonderful decade. During that period many important and lasting interventions to our environment has happened (also in former Czechosolvakia). People at that time were just more - sharing, I would say.
We had old alley from Populus deltoides (do not know English name for it, sorry). Since my chidlhood it standed close to our house. Then about 10 years ago came developers, rescued it. Then arrived new inhabitants - usually young, rich, arrogant and just one season was enough for them to pay all important people and cut the whole alley. Their argument was that poplar trees made a mess in their gardens.

Where I live Katarina we have lost 100s of acres of recreational land to housing developers. They have built so many houses that it is Claustrophobic walking down those streets. They did keep many of the mature trees though. The developers were supposed to make a "Green Walk" but they have now squeezed more houses in instead.

These were nor developers who destroyed trees here. But families in houses.

Painting ... Scream .. Edvard Munch :o))

Screaming face is green, Amy? Lol. I think they found already that painting, didn´t they? It was stolen some years ago.