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4 sleeps to go until Santa comes. I have been nominated by Angela to do a 5 day B&W photo, but have decided to do it after my Christmas countdown.
This is my photo for the group 52 in 2014 - #30 Beverage. I have finished the challenge and just may have a celebration drink of some red wine this evening.
This is another of my latest creations. It is the little brother to the white Maltese Terrier that I made a while back. I am going to visit my son and his family in Hervey Bay at the end of this month (can you believer it is already the 1st June). I will be taking Sugar, the Maltese Terrier and this little one as gifts for two of my granddaughters.
When we stayed in Londonderry, we went inside the City Hall and the stained glass windows were stunning. The first window commemorates those that died on Bloody Sunday in January, 1972.
A beautiful Zinnia that I found when wandering around the neighbourhood. The garden was full of beautiful blooms.
Its so long since I posted a shot of myself that I thought I would post one just to prove I am actually still alive.
I understand now why my ex husband didn't think I was ill, because to look at me I look the picture of health, but it is a bit of a rare event when I am all smiley.
Actually, I think it was the trip to the hairdresser that day that made me smile, as she gave me a new hairstyle and got rid of those nasty, nasty grey hairs that have plagued me since I was 21.
I have told Tanya my hairdresser that she is not allowed to leave Castlerock because she is one of the best hairdressers I have ever had and as every woman will tell you, we are slaves to our hairdressers!!
I have noticed that Flickr has once again changed since my last posting, I swear they are the worst tweaker's as they cannot leave well alone. No doubt I will be pulling my hair out later bemoaning the fact I cannot find anything.
And yes, I do have a whinge at times!
EXPLORED NO.476
We had our family Christmas today (Boxing Day) and I ate too much food and had a few drinks. I love seeing the excitement on the children's faces. It was a warm day, but an afternoon storm cooled it down, but the children still had fun on the blow up pool and slide. I am now exhausted, so I will catch up with everyone tomorrow. This is my Christmas tree with my Hallmark decorations and lots of wooden decorations from when my children were little.
I wasn't going to call him Boy George as I think Squirrel is prettier than he is, with or without make up!!
The other squirrel who appeared on our fence last year (and never returned at least when I am around) I think is Boy Cutie's mother.
Squirrel's like most animals are territorial and if there is a gourmet food source on their door step, even more so.
In fact last month, I had another squirrel appear on the fence that was tiny but bub disappeared when I went for my camera and sigh, haven't seen that one back either!!
I so wish I could have a relationship with the Squirrels like I did with my Australian Possums as I truly, truly miss them and the experience I had with them, I will probably never experience again.
Do feel a tad guilty about loving grey squirrels as they are an introduced species from America and they have decimated the red squirrel population which are native to the UK.
The greys carry a virus, harmless to their genus but deadly to the reds as it attacks their brain.
That was why I was so excited at the thought of seeing red squirrels in Muff Forest as they really are very rare in Northern Ireland.
I'm not giving up on Muff though!!
I haven't seen many Teddy Bear bees this Summer, but I was wandering around my neighbour's garden the other day when I heard this one coming (you always hear them before you see them). I was happy when this one stayed around for some photos, flitting from flower to flower.
This is a tiny mouse that I made for my sister in law. I vowed I would never make something so small again, but she saw my little white mouse and requested one to go with her lilac kitty cat I made for her birthday a few years ago. It was as fiddly as the first one LOL.
I will be away for a few days visiting my brother and his wife and I am not sure whether I will be able to spend time on the internet, so I will be in touch when I can.
The first written evidence of the existence of the Herst settlement appears in William the Conqueror's Domesday Book which reports that one of William's closest supporters granted tenancy of the manor at Herst to a man named ‘Wilbert'. By the end of the twelfth century, the family at the manor house at Herst had considerable status. Written accounts mention a lady called Idonea de Herst, who married a Norman nobleman named Ingelram de Monceux. Around this time, the manor began to be called the “Herst of the Monceux”, a name that eventually became Herstmonceux.
A descendant of the Monceux family, Roger Fiennes, was ultimately responsible for the construction of Herstmonceux Castle in the County of Sussex. Sir Roger was appointed Treasurer of the Household of Henry VI of England and needed a house fitting a man of his position, so construction of the castle on the site of the old manor house began in 1441. It was this position as treasurer which enabled him to afford the £3,800 construction of the original castle. The result is not a defensive structure, but a palatial residence in a self-consciously archaising castle style.
In 1541, Sir Thomas Fiennes, Lord Dacre, was tried for murder and robbery of the King's deer after his poaching exploits on a neighboring estate resulted in the death of a gamekeeper. He was convicted and hanged as a commoner, and the Herstmonceux estate was temporarily confiscated by Henry VIII of England, but was restored to the Fiennes family during the reign of one of Henry's children.
The profligacy of the 15th Baron Dacre, heir to the Fiennes family, forced him to sell in 1708 to George Naylor, a lawyer of Lincoln’s Inn in London. Naylor’s grandson followed the architect Samuel Wyatt’s advice to reduce the Castle to a picturesque ruin by demolishing the interior. Thomas Lennard, 16th Baron Dacre, was sufficiently exercised as to commission James Lamberts of Lewes to record the building. The castle was dismantled in 1777 leaving the exterior walls standing and remained a ruin until the early 20th century.
Okay I admit it, this warranted another shriek from me as we came round the corner and I saw the fog glowing.
I sounded like that little chap in Fantasy Island, bouncing up and down in my seat saying "the light, the light. Shane I have GOT to get that light before it goes".
So obliging is my husband!
I have absolutely no qualms in posting this Scottish series because they are all so incredibly different and its taking me ages to decide which one I post on a daily basis.
If you are wondering what the big poles are at the side of the road, these are markers for the snow ploughs so they know where the road is and don't roll down the mountain side!.
This one has a more ominous feel about it with the light fading fast and the fog rolling in.
Believe me, after seeing how desolate these mountains are, survival is not an option if lost.
Unless of course you are Bear Grylls!
EXPLORE NO. 6 30TH NOVEMBER 2013
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I have decided to join Nina (www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/) on her challenge of taking a flower photo a day for 365 days.
This is growing in my garden and the ID is:
Queen's Tears (Billbergia nutans).
My cheeky, noisy, naughty starlings who keep me amused with their antics and not to amused when they are bored and decided to pull the flowers out of my hanging baskets.
We have a large picture window in our living room that is nearly from floor to ceiling. Far from being a boring view though, I have ten feeders along the fence (Shane kindly built me a bracket to hang them all on) and behind the fence the beech trees and wild rose hedge, so there is always something to look at.
Before I descended on him, Shane only had Paddy the dog to contend with, who alas, died when I went back to Australia to pack.
Now, not only does he have to contend with a mildly eccentric wife, but four rescue cats, a feral cat who lives in the shed, the starlings, sparrows, wrens, robins, blackbirds, thrushes, dunnock's, ring necked doves, pigeons, coal tits, blue tits, great tits, occasional seagull and sparrow hawk and lastly the elusive Squirrels.
Plenty of room in our garden for a couple of goats and sheep.
NO!!! did I hear you shriek Mr.Killen?
Another one from the archives. I still haven't been out with the camera - seem to have lost my mojo LOL. I am going to Hervey Bay on Sunday to visit my son and his family, so I am sure there will be lots of photos taken then. I have thousands of photos in my archives, so I am sure I will be right for a long time.
I was surprised to find the zebra difficult to find when we first began our journey around South Africa, but after the first couple of weeks, we came across quite a few. They are my all time favourite African animal.
Today we visited the Bentley Wildfowl and car museum with Pat (Larigan). There were so many amazing birds there and easy to walk around to the different ponds. I think I have the correct ID, but if not, someone may be able to correct me..
I have decided to join Nina on her challenge to add a flower photo a day for 365 days.
www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/
Still resting my hand today so I may not be able to leave comments, but I will be looking at your photos.
When we were staying in the New Forest we used to see the wild ponies standing on the side of the road (and sometimes in the middle of the road).
Merry Christmas everyone. We haven't long been up, but I am sure that all my grandchildren and their parents have been up for hours. It is quiet in the neighbourhood - I miss the days of hearing the joyful laughter of children playing with their Christmas toys.
The children are becoming very excited now. I have been having lots of fun with bokeh textures in PicMonkey, as you can see LOL.
My brother had a love of American Indians and their culture and also felt he had angels all around him. This is a statue called Guiding Spirit that he had in his collection. It is from a Bradford Exchange collection. May she guide the way.
and I am sure there must be a Scottish song somewhere, extolling the virtues of Glencoe and the Loch
Because of the drama of the two flat tyres, our intended visit into the village of Glencoe was a mere fleeting one as we had a very long drive back to catch the ferry home.
So it was a quick drive though, turn around and as we were reaching the head of the Loch, I screeched "STOOOOOOPPPPP"
You can all imagine it can't you!
The light on the side of the hill was just divine and with that mist looking as if it was being sucked up into the sky, I had to have a photograph.
A chap commented on my first mountain shot and said he had been to Glencoe 14 times and it had poured down every time.
So this is proof to all those thousands of visitors that Glencoe does actually see the sun.
EXPLORE NO.5 29TH NOVEMBER 2013
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I have uploaded this photo before in colour, but tried it in B&W today for a challenge and I really like the effect.
It is amazing to watch the interaction between the mother and baby Chimpanzees - I could watch them for hours.
No tail ender of a storm from America this time, just a typical Northern Ireland day that has all four seasons in a day.
This is the opposite end to the breakwater where the cliffs come down to the sea and there is lots of basalt to climb over.
It was an extremely windy day which you can't really get an impression of, but I actually had to wedge myself between two huge boulders just to keep the camera steady.
Okay, I confess Mr.Killen I was a lot closer to the sea than I should have been, but in this position I was able to get the shots I wanted.
By the time I had finished I was soaking wet to mid thigh, but you know, after being doused by the first wave, you don't feel the rest because one's legs are numb!
I love t he contrast of the storm clouds with the blue, blue sky and I know from experience that once the rain bands can be seen over the River Foyle, I am out of there!
If I don't get round to saying hello to you, don't worry, I will. Mr.Killen and I are heading out in a couple of hours to hunt down something rather special and I am very excited about it!
And that is all I am saying!
A Katydid that I spotted on this pretty Dahlia in my neighbour's garden. We have been having some lovely Autumn weather here in Sydney - hope it continues.
A photo taken during our travels around the UK. I think this was taken in the garden of our good friends Peter (aa_just_thowt) and Sally in Otterburn in Northumberland.
Bayeux Cathedral is a Norman-Romanesque cathedral, located in the town of Bayeux. It is the seat of the Bishop of Bayeux. It was the original home of the Bayeux Tapestry and is a national monument of France.
I have decided to join Nina on her challenge to add a flower photo a day for 365 days.
www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/
This is a ground cover that grows wild in my garden. I love it but I do agree with Peter that it gets out of hand. He wants to pull it all out, but I won't let him LOL. We just try to keep it under control.
When we were driving around Kruger, we saw many buffalo - one day a whole herd was walking down the middle of the road in between the cars that had stopped to watch them.
I took my 7D into Canon today, now to wait and see what the quote will be to fix it.
We were amazed to see how much damage had been done to the sugar cane by the torrential rain and strong winds of up to 100 kph. We have been told that it should eventually spring back up again.
We are home tomorrow afternoon and I will catch up with comments then.
Still trying out my 90 mm Tamron macro lens. Whilst it doesn't have the reach that my 180 mm macro lens has, I really like the clarity of the photos.
I just came across these photos of my grandchildren running free in the local park at the end of our street. I love the light!!
Shane and I have just come back from a magical three day stay on Rathlin Island, attending a workshop with award winning photographer Tom McDonnell who lives on Rathlin.
We were there for a day trip two years ago and I have been itching and twitching to get back there as it is stunningly beautiful and one of the best places to see wild and bird life.
That is all I am going to say for now as I still have all my photos to process and unlike my May holiday photos which still haven't seen the light of day, I intend showing my Rathlin ones.
Besides, if I start writing now, I will never finish!!!!
So, this is just the first in a long series, a common seal, giving me the eye, lying on the basalt at Ushet Point.
I have decided to join Nina on her challenge to add a flower photo a day for 365 days.
www.flickr.com/photos/21560098@N06/
This is the same flower that I posted a couple of days ago, but in the morning light.
I haven't been on the computer much this weekend as I have had the grandchildren over for sleepovers. Boys on Friday night and girls on Saturday night. Poppy is away for a few days and it is easier when he is not around, if you know what I mean LOL.
This is a Christmas wreath that I made over the weekend for my middle daughter and I am about to start another for my elder daughter. I have had so much fun making the little ornaments.
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3 sleeps to go. This is a handmade smocked Christmas ball that is hanging on my tree. I didn't make it though - I bought it from the lady who was teaching me how to smock. The little scary Santa is a tie that was around a bag of sweets that my children received way back when they were little. Some of my decorations were chosen by my children each year back in the 70s and 80s and still adorn the tree each year.