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It all seemed a good idea at the time . A few hours free this morning so thought I'd try this out again, but in the end I've spent too much time over it when I should be getting ready to hit the road for Hampshire again tomorrow. To me it looks blurred but it maybe just the fact that my eyes have spent too much time poring over my monitor.
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.
Apologies to our Kiwi friends, what a rollercoaster of a morning. I had to celebrate by pumping up this oval ball...
A Lensbaby shot, but not this month's project one...
Treasure Hunt 51: Oval
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.
This morning I got up to discover a problem with our broadband being intolerably slow. After an hour on the phone to our ISP ( during which the young lady suggested that Huw plug an ethernet cable into his Mac Book pro (??) , it was determined that our router is faulty and we're to get a visit from a technician between 8am and midday tomorrow. I hope he arrives early because we leave home tomorrow at lunchtime for a local fundraising meeting and from there travel to Cardiff ( weather permitting ) for another meeting with an overnight stay there. Caption is because it's surprising how much dust gathers in and around these teccie gadgets, no matter how often you dust them.
Thoroughly enjoyable trip on the Swanage Railway with Alex, Jade and the grandchildren. Corfe Castle was looking gorgeous in some sunshine. We'd just had a heavy shower!
A walk across the golf course, with my Lensbaby for my monthly project. Began to think I'd be going home with nothing, as no inspiration, then I spotted this fungus.
Treasure Hunt 08: Lensbaby Monthly Project
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.
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.
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 .
Another new gadget to my collection of photo paraphernalia. It's a card reader to transfer photos directly to my iPad from my camera - something I need because I go away so often, especially on overnighters that very often my laptop is bigger and heavier than my overnight bag. I've downloaded the Lightroom app onto my iPad to edit in RAW and share to whoever - not necessarily to Flickr, although the one below in comments is another shot of the Labradoodle posted for yesterday's POTD. PS I think I've created the Watermark too large....🙈
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’m curious about the numbers - this is the 1303
Image in my run of 365 and this tower was built around 1300.
A bracing walk from Goring to Ferring, with the southeasterly pushing us along. Not so much fun on the way back, but helped by tea and an eccles cake :-)
There is a line of gnarled trees across the greensward, which always fascinates me. Somehow the Lensbaby Sweet 50 did it more justice than any previous attempt.
I woke up this morning with no voice and the mother of sore throats, so had to pull out of a meeting in Bridgend followed by a visit to see the Diplodocus at The National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. This old dinosaur instead raided the batch of home made Welsh Cakes that I cooked on the weekend and put in the freezer destined for Huw's final MS Society Board Meeting in London, next Thursday. I'd better add that I left more than enough in the freezer.
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!)
The work is done next door, but not until we had put up with the droning of the plant for 9 days, including Bank Holiday Monday. The final straw was 2 hours of engine noise very close to, when the machinery needed repairing.
Having upset both sets of neighbours, this is the result in the garden. I hope it was worth it!
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.
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.”
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.
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
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 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 😉)
Camera club coffee morning at Denman's Garden saw the Lensbaby come out again.
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 06: June Lensbaby image
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.
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.
"World Book Day is a charity event held annually in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the first Thursday in March. It is the local manifestation of World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. On World Book Day, every child in full-time education in the UK is given a voucher to be spent on books.
The Day was first celebrated in 1995 in the United Kingdom. The original, global World Book Day event is generally observed on 23 April - it was changed in the UK to avoid clashes with Easter school holidays and with St George's Day. "
In this The Gruffalo sits to read why the fuss about himself..................
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 ;-)
A first attempt at merging myself with vinyl, as seen here:
www.facebook.com/DeskX.Art/photos/pcb.497471824347274/497...
I'm sure this would be much easier with a friend to model for you, but that wasn't my plan!
Luckily OH is out tonight, so I was able to raid the vinyl, most of whish is his!
Surprisingly few lend themselves to being used like this...
This may not happen again! Oh, and I'd better go and put the albums away...