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Dwarf Narcissi in a planter in my garden through my glass ball. Epic fail with this one because I caught the reflections of the top of the awning and bedroom windows .
This is honey from the bees at the National Botanic Garden of Wales that I bought last Thursday
“Home to approximately half a million honeybees, the Botanic Garden is abuzz with activity throughout most of the year. For the first time ever, honey from the Bee Garden is now for sale in the Garden’s Gift Shop.
“Research undertaken by the Garden’s Science Team has discovered that, although the Garden offers our honeybees a magnificent menu of more than 11,000 types of plants, they rely on hedgerow, woodland and grassland species such as brambles, white clover, dandelion, willow, hawthorn and ivy for most of their diet.”
A quick wander in Monkmead Woods. The healed wound in this tree was catching the sun rather well. I added a bit of a Lensbaby Omni Rainbow Film filter effect on the right.
More of my type of landscape photography...
Waves breaking on the rocks at Crackington Haven...
Loving the green water and patterns created by a longer exposure.
Mothering Sunday today in the UK and this is the ribbon on the gift from our son - a mahoosive bucket of flowers, to name just one thing. A little background about Mothering Sunday....
"Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year i.e. the church in which they were baptised. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their 'mother' church - the main church or Cathedral of the area.
Inevitably the return to the 'mother' church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home. (It was quite common in those days for children to leave home for work once they were ten years old.)
And most historians think that it was the return to the 'Mother' church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family.
As they walked along the country lanes, children would pick wild flowers or violets to take to church or give to their mother as a small gift."
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
XIII.—The Old Red Sandstone Rocks of the West Kilbride-Largs District, Ayrshire
EM Patterson
Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow 21 (2), 207-236, 1951
From Ardrossan northwards to Wemyss Bay the eastern shores of the Firth of Clyde furnish an almost continuous succession of sandstones, pebbly sandstones and conglomerates referred on the published geological maps to the Upper Old Red Sandstone. These form a foundation for the Carboniferous lava-plateau of Renfrewshire and northern Ayrshire. They rise steeply from the coast towards the lava-country of the interior and separate it from the sea by a distance which varies from half a mile near Largs to upwards of four miles west of the villages of Inverkip and West Kilbride. The district described in the present paper comprises the coastal tract which stretches for a distance of seven miles from West Kilbride to Largs (Fig. 3). It lies mainly within Sheet 21 of the Geological Survey One-inch Map, though a small part on its eastern margin is included in Sheet 22.
These are for a Spring Charity Ball that four of us who are the SwanseaMSFundraisingGroup are arranging for March 1st. The idea is this ( as is printed on the envelope ) :-
1. Place £5 in the envelope.
2. Sign your name on the envelope.
3. Your envelope will be collected
4. The winning envelop drawn will win a case of wine
Guaranteed a good money spinner each time we've done this in the past.
A visit to The National Botanic Gardens of Wales where we arrived in warm Springtime weather but by the time we left it had turned cold and grey.
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Taken at The National botanic Gardens of Wales. I was dropped off here long before it opened, by Huw en route to a meeting in Carmarthen, although I spent most of the day at The British Birds of Prey Centre there. An uncustomarily cold and windy day for April but despite feeling perished to the core, managed somehow to get my face sunburned underneath my polyfilla ( make - up 😉)
Last year it was sunflowers, this year we've had a few rapeseed plants grow from the bird seeds.
No longer flowering, it was looking particularly good in the sun against the neighbour opposite's dark copper beech.
Terrible overnight rain and flooding in my area that I wasn't sure I'd get out today but during a dry patch, I nipped around to the lane near my home. Neighbours always leave their pumpkins in the woods for wildlife to nibble at and I spotted this one that must have been washed into the stream. I was afraid to go much further because the lane itself had newly formed streams running through it.
Dave decorated the house with our prayer flags, bought in Kathmandu in 2016!
The calm before the storm. 26 people including ourselves, with no easy access from house to garden due to unfinished work and a lost backdoor key.
This is the only way round the house to the back garden. Luckily the weather was kind to us, glad it wasn't on Sunday!
I've been invited to rather a glitzy dinner next week as a guest in my own rights, but also as the photographer of the event. People who know me know that this kind of dresswear is so not me which led to a bit of a dilemma as to what to wear anyway. In the end I opted for this kimono jacket which I can whip off as soon as I need to with a plain sleeveless top and black velvet trousers - not even going there about the footwear ;-)
So on a dark and drab day in Winter, we headed to the darkest and drabbest of places known as Taibach , Port Talbot . The name Taibach itself lends itself to many a crude joke because its English translation is literally ‘Little Houses’ or to be polite, ‘the loos’ .
From the web :- “Up until a few weeks ago Richmond Terrace was just like any other suburban street in South Wales.
It is home to a few houses and garages, next to the busy A48 running through Port Talbot. The nondescript area, less than a mile from the vast Port Talbot steelworks, was unknown to most.
But just a few days before Christmas, the street was appearing in newspapers across the world from New York to Japan after an artwork by the world renowned Banksy appeared on a garage wall. The graffiti shows a child with open arms playing in what appears to be snow, but the other side of the wall reveals it is ash from a rubbish bin on fire.
In the frenzy that followed, thousands descended on the small street, the owner of the garage went without sleep for two days, a "drunk halfwit" tried to damage the graffiti and the local council had to hire workers to deal with the crowds”
Read more about it here……………….
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/truth-behind-port-t...
Closer shots in comments.
I hoped to spend this wet day checking out my dad's slides using a projector and screen.
It started out O.K. then the slide projector jammed completely. When Dave got home he offered to do a Repair Shop job for me, and got it working after a few hours.
This was taken earlier in the day, and features Roy, who you met on his 90th birthday back in April at the front, followed by my brother, Roy's three daughters and my sister nearer the camera. My mum brings up the rear, carrying you-know-who at just over a year old.
We had many happy shared holidays, generally West Wittering at Easter, and often the Helford River area in Cornwall in summer.
I can't really claim to remember this one in particular, but the pattern stayed the same, with silly games, beach cricket, long jump competitions, building impossible sandcastles, lunches by the beach hut with the children sitting around an old sun-lounger as a table...
Life was so much simpler then.
Treasure Hunt 48: Memories
I should have taken the time to talk with her and gotten her name. I would have loved to been able to include this shot in my 100 Strangers project. I've got to keep trying to remember that. I'm always kicking myself afterward!
Two days until the three-day weekend! Gotta come up with some fun plans!
(Oh,and I seem to be "title challenged" lately, so I am open to suggestion!)
One out of a bunch of daffs from Tesco.
PS just to add that I won't be around much to comment nor upload tomorrow, so have a good weekend everyone :-)
Camera club coffee morning at Denman's Garden saw the Lensbaby come out again.
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 06: June Lensbaby image
Morning spent in the garden. This is one of the weeds I didn't dig up...
It looks like a tiny version of cow parsley, with flowers starting out a deeper pink, and fading to white. Perhaps not a weed?
Edit: Upright hedge parsley: Torilis japonica.
Our Pebbles seems to think that this is her place while we are eating our dinner, despite us politely pointing out ther error of her ways.
As she is 17 and completely deaf, perhaps we haven't been firm enough!
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Detail of the installation
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
I'd prepared an indoor shot for today's POTD because I had no intention of going out in today's high winds. However by lunchtime, I was sick and tired of Flickr's outages that I took myself off to the Botanic Gardens, Singleton, Swansea. After taking numerous shots of the colourful tulip beds, I turned my attention to a spot of 'bird whispering'. This was what greeted me - a squirrel ( one of approx 8) waiting for a peanut or twenty.
I received a few Disney Inventor Awards last year for my work on Disney Infinity. I've been meaning to photograph them for a while but I put it off because they are a pain in the butt to shoot;) It doesn't get much worse than combining high index glass with partial sand blasting, engraved lettering, black marble backing and base, and a magnified glass top. It made for a frustrating shoot.
Into my heart's night
Along a narrow way
I groped; and lo! the light,
An infinite land of day.
~ Rubaiyat of Rumi
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in.
~ Leonard Cohen
A lovely walk fromj Byworth, through Petworth, and down this sunken lane that was once the main turnpike between Chichester and Petworth.
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Camera club coffee morning at Shoreham, and I went on the search for a wreck. Might have processed to make the background recede more than it was to add to the feeling I got of the boat dreaming of better days.
Treasure Hunt 73: Wreck
The Photowalk I had planned just happened to be on the hottest day of the year so far! Luckily most of the time we were in the shade, and six participants survived the experience.
The title is the name I'd given the walk, so I was amused to find these on top of a high wall in the Causeway.
My research paid off, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, having lunch together at Bill's in the Town Hall afterwards.