August brings first my Dad's Birthday - he will be ninety eight this year, and my Daughter's birthday follows near the end of the month.
August – welcome…..and Birthday Celebrations
July – Goodbye
Photo a day challenge July 31 I am still here so that is something to be grateful for and therefor not goodbye but onwards and onwards we go hopefully without too many spikes and even more hopefully a steady trend downwards as far as the pandemic is concerned. So, reasons to be cheerful: Family First....my …
View from the bottom to the TOP- Lofty heights!
The Alliums have reached lofty heights and now waiting for the Agapanthus to bloom, Square Perspectives Giant Alliums
Path- Photo a Day Prompt July 21
Up the Garden Path today look what I found- seemingly a daisy but yellow not the usual white with yellow centre, this is life at the moment and yearnings for places further afield are soon to be realised later in the year...with a planned visit to St Ives. During which was to be the Arts …
‘P’ July Colours and Letters
'P' A plethora of choice for this prompt today. Party, Pub, Portrait, pigeons, to name a few. I was going with pigeons, but then thought, of course it's obvious, Painting. But then I thought! Of course it has to be Painting, although I haven't been doing much painting lately, just some watercolour sketchbook work. https://videopress.com/v/kbmDRtGO?preloadContent=metadata …
Relax : June photo a Day Challenge
Relax ing in my wonderful compact garden. Enough for me to take care of, and immense pleasure after the work of tidying, watering, pruning, preening and mowing the lawn...now time to relax.
Miniature- June photo a day challenge
Back in the late 1950's I have a memory of a day trip to Southend. A day at the seaside always exciting but this was a really special trip - Dad had booked a trip in an aeroplane. The three of us in a tiny light aircraft flew around the Southend Airport countryside- with a …
Perch, Sketch, Winch all end with H
June Colours and Letters 'Ending with H' Perch: perching often in precarious places! Sketch: sketches taken from my collection of hag stones. Part of Time and Tide Exhibition at Courtyard Arts Winch: Memories of a fabulous stay at the Winch House- complete with the original winch!
Photo a Day : Letter V
v a search in the photo library came up with several categories for V. Vesture, Vehicle, Video and so on. What to go with? Always excited to discover the memories that are selected by i photo. I've gone with the category Veg and bizarrely a mono print identified as a Vinyl - the last image …
Photo a Day : Reflections
Reflections of what life used to be: https://youtu.be/LRjCqaX2IvQ and here I've taken this in my kitchen just now!
Photo a Day Challenge May and Colours and Letters
POTD Delicate Beautiful Clematis battered by the wind: with the sun behind the petals - do I detect a hint of mint?
May 10 Photo a Day colours and letters challenge: LIME
LIME A beautiful clematis in my front garden has just started to bloom. It doesn't have much direct sunlight as north facing but I just love it's subtle lime and cream flowers. Alliums just bursting into bloomAnother allium bud just breaking freeThe clematis with it's fabulous cream and tinged with lime green blossoms- love it!
May 7th photo a day challenge : Park
A search in the photo library revealed over 1000 images of my Grand Children in the park and a few of Stanley Park Vancouver and various other parks. Not being with the Grand Children is probably the hardest part of lockdown for me. I usually spend one day every week with them, the babies the …
RDP Daily Post : Unmask
I have this thing that (sometimes) when I hear certain words or phrases a song lyric pops into my mind- maybe it's something that everyone has? Anyway when this prompt popped up on my feed I immediately thought of the song 'behind a painted smile' that may not be the title but that's the line …
May 5th Post a day: Everywhere
Continuing with the theme of Light and Shadows, something we are aware of everywhere in our daily lives and something I am especially interested in... This was a short clip from a time lapse video I made a while back. The camera moved during the day a couple of times so I couldn't use all …
May photo a day : Shadow
Shadow
RTDP: Image
What does this image say to you?
Square Top April 24: Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester.
Square Tops: Top Cat; Top to Tail
Square Top Challenge: Top Cat; Top to Tail
Silent Sunday
Some random April shots over the years for Silent Sunday snow, smiling faces, family and friends.....and it is Palm Sunday.
Just one lifetime
"The planets turn in retrograde The moon seems to have fled The world is spinning upside down It landed on its head" Words by Sting, Shaggy.
RDP: Online
RDP Ragtag Daily Prompt: Online Online is the only form of socialising available to many of us at present. These daily prompts and challenges have been a welcomed interaction with the outside world, which of course for many of us is a solitary existence just now. I have so enjoyed the daily prompts as it …
March 30 Photo a Day : Animals
Our first cat was called Mr Pip. Mr Pip Since that time our family have had various pets, at one time I had nine cats, It started with a rescue cat called Toby, who hid in a tiny space at the side of the kitchen cupboard for several days after re homing him. He eventually …
RDP Wednesday: SCRY
SCRY To sleep – perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.......
Monday 23 March-POTD:Grid
Newlyn ExchangeLost Gardens of HeliganGallery from carylbeach.com website I do like a grid : photo of the day. Well the start of another week in our surreal world....Thinking about all the people who have lost their lives to this terrible disease...and those who are still struggling to survive....sending love and hope that we will get …
