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This is on the side of the long drive into NT Dinefwr Park and Castle. It's not rape but a mix of dandelions and cuckoo flowers (Lady's smock)
A bit of poetic licence here with the caption, but what had happened is that we drove the The Fendrod Lake, Swansea to get the exact shot I had in mind (sunburst through the trees) but within 2 mins of arriving the clouds descended. So frustrating :)
Not the best of starts to my fourth consecutive 365 project because not only did I have problems on the web earlier today but I used too wide an aperture for this. I ate it before checking my photos :-)
Anyhow - something light for lunch after the excesses of Christmas and New Year, however we're dining out at friends' this evening, so the healthy eating regime resumes with a vengeance tomorrow.
Awful weather conditions today with people living near the coast being told to stay indoors, hence this (baaa-d.....very bad) composite which started off as a simple shot of the rain on my window.
These were the scenes of where I usually go on a Thursday and Friday
www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/pictures/Pictures-Storm-...
It's our 37th Wedding Anniversary today and I'm now embarrasingly in receipt of three wedding rings. You can read here planet-paradise.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/an-oeuf-is-enough-... how I came to have the second one. As for the third- I'd lost the second one and it remained lost for over two years until my husband insisted I got a replacement. Within a week of getting that replacement, our son who was helping us move some furniture to make more space, said "Wouldn't it be funny if we find your lost ring behind this unit?" and with that he moved it away from the wall, bent over and when he got up, turned his head with a great big beam on his face and with my lost ring in his hand .
Honestly! You really can't make these things up - the joys of family life :-)
Carrying on from two days before - this is a guinea fowl feather which I picked up from the graveyard In the church at Llanrhidian, Gower ( below)
Today in Wales we celebrate St David's Day and the caption consists of words attributed to St. David our Patron Saint. They get slightly lost in translation but roughly 'remember to do the simple things in life'.
Last year's more humorous contribution is below in comments..
I nipped out this afternoon to my local woodland hoping to get some shots of fungi, but found that place that they grow is uncustomarly dry. I passed wild blackberries in the undergrowth on the way home so chose this as my 365 shot.
I'm finding it a bit of a bittersweet surprise that the goddess (?) of healthy eating has gone and sold herself the the devil known as 'Asda Bakery' This is because I decided the other day to take part in Flickr's #FlickrFriday project. This week's theme is 'sweet surprises' which encompases anything sweet and quite open to interpretation but I decided to stick by the initial text - 'to celebrate the day of the donut'.
Llanelli WWT run an annual event each May called a 'duckery tour'. I've been in the past and learned and enjoyed so much that we revisited today. This is a day old chick, one of the teal family (ringed teal if I remember) bred in captivity for conservation purposes and photo'd in one of the hatcheries.
This is my OH three weeks to the day that he was operated on. Still a long road to recovery ahead but today we were one step further along that road because he was well enough for us to catch a cab to Cafe Twocann, Swansea SA1 and stroll as far as here - the decommissioned Helwick Lightship which is berthed outside The National Maritime Museum of Wales. That's his tiny Leica camera which he's using because it'll be several weeks until he can carry his Canon 7D and associated equipment. I didn't set this up either because I was composing the shot below when he stepped in front of me.
I'd hoped to capture this as it rose over the horizon last night but we had cloud cover. However I was reading in bed until quite late when I glanced up and saw this stream through the window. It would have been rude to ignore it, surely? :-) Taken gone midnight but I must redo the time stamp on my camera because it was a good 15 mins. earlier than what the EXIF displays.
....the pod went pop. :-)
Another rainy day shot. I picked up some fresh local produce in Swansea Market today - can't beat it for taste, freshness and at a low cost.
With apologies to long-standing Contacts because I choose this subject ever year but use a different type of image (Below) .
On January 1st each year I start on my hay fever prevention routine. This simply consists of taking one or two teaspoonful's of local beekeeper's honey each morning until the pollen season is over. The reasoning behind this is that local honey contains pollen granules; these in turn over the months insidiously desensitise the body to the effects of pollen so that by hay fever time my body tolerates it.
I've been doing this on the recommendation of someone in a charity I used to volunteer for, and must say that it hasn't let me down in the last eight, maybe nine years. It's also far gentler than a huge steroid injection into the rump and I'd hit a stage when I was risking steroid overuse. I don't actually like honey, find it too sweet but one spoonful is tolerable
This year I've had to search for a different supplier because my previous one has diversified somewhat and started adding other ingredients, some of which have contra-indications with meds I take in relation to my MS (Multiple Sclerosis)
I'd arranged last minute to meet my sis-in-law for coffee this morning as she's here on a short visit from her home in Devon. I'd clean forgotten that there was a cheque handover going on here. I grabbed this shot very quickly as I was waiting to be seated and before the manageress asked me not to take any photos.It's a photo of John Hartson (with his wife) the Welsh former professional footballer who now heads the John Hartson Foundation to raise awreness of testicular cancer, of which he's had treatment for and recovered from. The cheque handover was £20,000 each to Morriston and Singleton Hospital Golau Cancer Foundation which is the main official charity of the South West Wales Cancer Centre Singleton Hospital ( a centre where I've spent far too much time for my liking this year with my husband as it happens)
I chose the title because of this quote:-
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind~ Albert Schweizer.
Taken today as our friends from Hants and I walked through Swansea's Waterfont Winterland. Husband was at a work's Christmas lunch although he met us here shortly after. SOOC apart from Noise Reduction.
A quick shot I took this morning for Facebook's 5 days in Mono. Too busy today to do anything other than this.
This is looking up river from the Sailbridge, Swansea SA1 today and taken at high tide (the River Tawe being tidal for a good few miles inland). During the storms a few days ago the water had risen over the sides of the wall either side but today it looked very much as is normal. Captured with my OH by my side after we'd caught a cab to go for coffee and light lunch at Cafe Twocann- first day out 'proper' for him although the only distance we walked was across the Sailbridge to Sainsbury's before catching a cab home. Friends, neighbours and family have been exceptionally generous with regards giving me lifts here there and everywhere with one neighbour today giving me a lift elsewhere before coming here. Both feeling tired tonight after our exertions and excursions :-)
A return to Llanelli WWT today but this time a lunch date and a stroll with an former school and college pal.
After an exceptionally stormy night, the winds died down enough for my OH and I to catch a cab go to our favourite coffee shop. After that we did as we often do and took a stroll around the marina, however the heavens opened and we were forced to take shelter due to a hailstorm. I captured this just as the sun began to shine and it's one of the vessels which doesn't appear to have been damaged in the recent storms, unlike many that were. It felt eerie in places to see moorings with no yachts nor trawlers lined up there.
My OH's choice of caption ;) and this evening it will be he who will be looking down the barrel of my Canon lens as I'll be photo'ing him accepting a cheque for charity - money raised by a Young Farmers club in Carmarthenshire.
A lame caption to accompany a lame photo because today my legs have felt too lame to go out in the wind to get an outdoor shot. My OH came to the rescue by lending a hand..................
After taking over a hundred shots of hummingbirds this morning, I decided to shoot one in RAW. Oh, I am glad I did this. It really helps with the dynamic range.
Idea for our London exhibition "The New Obsolete". Displaying my work in old frames on the wall, to make it cosy and like a loving-room filled with old memories.
The frames are just images I found on google to see how it would look like, so If I do use this idea I would have to look around in charity shops for some nice ones.
As the storm hit us with winds reaching gusts of over 90 mph on the coast and even worse-gusts of 106mph recorded at Aberdaron N. Wales, I gave up hope of getting a shot of siskins on my feeders and opened a pack of Teatime biscuits reserved for sick visitors though doubt we'll get any this evening due to the extreme weather (poor siskin shot in comments)
We travelled to Brecon today to sort out a new laptop from a fellow Flickr contact who owns this shop www.cuprum.co.uk/
We stopped in the lay-by on the way to capture this. It's a shot of Cray Reservoir, a storage reservoir located in the Brecon Beacons National Park for the water supply to the city of Swansea in South Wales. (quote Wiki) Quote me: I couldn't find info on the web about this but I'm sure I learned when we moved into our home that water is pumped from Llyn Brianne in Carmarthenshire across country, down the hill behind my house to a pumping station at Ynysforgan. From there it's pumped up the Swansea Valley to Cray.
My husband's birthday today so this is what I bought him. He prefers to write with a fountain pen, has a vast collection of of them, but also uses each and every one in his collection.
I was sorting out our glassware ready for Christmas and found these which we never use these days. They were bought in the Habitat store in Lilles, Northern France over ten years ago. No guesses as to why they're not used :)
Coffee + Milk Chocolate Coated Strawberries
in a Don't Stop Me Meow coffee mug
(Don't Stop Me Now by Freddie Mercury, Performed by Queen)
I think this is the worst selfie ever I've done in my life with me looking so miserable and holding a scribbled banner instead of a neat one, also the awful background - but having been involved all week in the MS Society's #treatmeright Awareness Campaign I felt compelled to do it. You can read more about it here...
www.treatmerightms.org.uk/about/
I'd already taken my Photo a Day before going out this morning but I'm submitting this as today's Photo a Day..... *cringe ..........
My intended one in comments.
And this one (Penllergare Valley Woods) is changing for the better, quote:
"On the northern fringe of the city of Swansea, and within sight of the M4 motorway, lies Penllergare Valley Woods. Here, deep in the valley, away from the noise and fumes of the passing traffic and encroaching development, you’ll find the overgrown but still discernable remnants of an important historic picturesque landscape.It is a secret and magical place. A place where you can enjoy the sound of birds, delight in the profusion of wild flowers, discover evidence of exotic plantings and uncover for yourself the hidden features of a grand design. The romantic and picturesque Penllergare was once created for the enjoyment of its creator John Dillwyn Llewelyn – a pioneering mover in science, nature, photography and astronomy in the 19th century. After over half a century of neglect, today, it is a place that can be enjoyed and explored by everyone. It is a landscape that is gradually being revived, restored and regenerated by us all."
To the right out of shot was this in comments.
I knew as soon as I woke up and saw what the weather was like that this was going to be my shot of the day. It's my husband's latest tipple of Three Barrels Honey Brandy ...
www.thehousebrandy.com/products/#
It says on the bottle that it's best served chilled hence the caption
Today my OH and I went on an all day trip down memory lane, a whistle-stop tour of some of our favourite places in Pembrokeshire. This is one of over 100 shots taken in the area - the St Justinan's Lifeboat station overlooking Ramsey Island and Ramsey sound, one of the most treacherous places for sea-farers in Wales.
Usually I'd agree wholeheartedy with the caption but this morning I wasn't too sure when we encountered this. It's taken from the car window somewhere remote in West Wales en route to Aberystwyth where Huw was working tday ( I went along for a ride and a day out) 'Someone' in their infinite wisdom decided to use the Sat Nav to get us there via a (questionably) faster route seeing as we had to be there early.
Out-take in comments of the Grade 11 listed shelter in Aberystwyth demolished in the storms in January and recently restored to its former glory,
Following on from previous uploads ….
“It emerged that O’Reilly ( Oh really? No – O’Reilly) the Sheep, resigned from playing the back end of a horse in panto at Dublin ( Oh yes, he did! Oh no he didn’t) and travelled to Wales to be with the true love of his life, Dolly the Tart Prima Donna Sheep. Not only that but he surprised Dolly by bringing home their daughter Lil’ Mizz Minty Lambchop to live and graze with the flock on the green, green grass of home. As the title suggests, they all lived happily ever after – or did they? …………………….( Look out he’s behind you!)”
Thus sees the end of four consecutive years of Photo a Day contributions for Flickr. Wishing all my Flickr friends a Happy New Year and to those in the Don’t Stop Me Now group, many thanks for your comments over the last three of those years.