There's a corner of a paddock where these grow. The birdsong nearby is beautiful.

P10+

My back garden

Passaggio a livello mentre passa treno suburbana. Level crossing while suburban train passes. Cameraphone shot. Scatto di strada. Via Libia. Bologna 2022

The city library is in the former fire station. Apart from books there are computers for public use and staff who know lots.

More than a place for books, it's a cultural center with poetry club meets, yoga sessions, local art exhibitions, and a warm place to hang out in the cold months.

If you are lucky enough to have a public library, please use it. Or lose it.

A former mill that's been re-purposed as housing. The June sky overhead looks ominous.

Processed with VSCOcam

It's good to greet the creatures before photographing them.

For some reason, my trusty Pixel has great difficulty focusing on this.

The corbicula is the term for a spoon-shaped indentation on some bees' legs where they carry pollen back to the hive.

This flower is a yellow snapdragon.

The bushes were transformed quite suddenly.

📷 Google Pixel 4xl - Throwback July 2021 - Cannock Chase

📷 Pixel 6 Pro - Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff'

Designed by Decimus Burton, this is one of three lights that guide shipping in the estuary. Still in use. The seating around the base provides welcome relief for walkers on the esplanade.

📷 Google Pixel 8 Pro - Telephoto Sensor (50MP) - The Dingle, Shrewsbury - Throwback April 2025

📷 Google Pixel 8 Pro - Telephoto Sensor - (12MP) - 30 x Zoom - Moonshot after Sunset

Abandon hope every mortal

That passes through

This dismal portal

Happy Halloween, everyone.

Be mindful this Samhain.

Steeper than it looks.

Here are the Radical Steps. The individual treads are not uniformly spaced, which makes navigation a little hazardous. Step 9 (labelled) was particularly interesting, having previously strapped my achilles to limit movement.

Lancaster Cathedral. Designed by local architect EG Paley.

A customer brought his late uncle's Ensignette camera to look at. It's from around 1914 and made in England.

I wonder what it's seen.

From the archive, because I haven't been out today. I've stayed at home and done some joyful meditation and some exercise to reverse achilles tendinitis.

This is a view of The Shard and some other bits and pieces on the Thames' southbank.

I have never liked this building, finding it completely out of character for London (as it appeared then). A number of official bodies objected to its construction, but an argument somewhere won out on the day.

You can read more, here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard

North Pier at Blackpool stretches out over soft, golden sands into the Irish Sea. It's midwinter so not a lot, if anything is going on.

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day, the first day of Autism Awareness month.

If you don't know about autism, or you want to know more, please search online for your nation's autism charities, where you will find out heaps of useful information that can help you understand what autism is, and how to make your workplace or whatever more 'autism friendly'.

The infinity symbol, sometimes in rainbow colors, is the international symbol for autism.