Todays photo is a frosty morning seen from my bedroom window. It looked really enticing when I looked out - but as usual it does not look as exciting when photographed. I took this other photo from the back window - red sky in the morning - shepards warning- thankfully I am not going out walking today.
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
365 project organisation
I think I have come up with a plan for these 365 photos, its no good just having them posted on my blog never to see the light of the day again. I had thought that I would do a scrapbook of them all at the end of the year, with 31 pages each having 12 of the themed photos on - but as I have not been able to live up to each theme I had planned to do - lots more exciting things happened which needed to be photographed - I needed to think again. Que the article in January Creating Keepsakes magazine :-
It utilises 6x4 photo sleeves to showcase a weeks worth of photos with room for a little journalling as well.
I like this idea of making it a photo album that I can do as I go along - I am more likely to finish this project then. I have some of the 6x4 photo sleeves left from when I did the big photo sort out last year and they will be ideal - will have a play about today and start printing some of the photos out and see what I come up with.
Sunday, 25 January 2009
todays photo is...
my beautiful daughter! This photo was taken today at Attingham Park and shows her new short hair cut and her new coat - you can see her new wellies in the next photo.


My husband is beautiful as well so here is a lovely one of him - wish he had had a shave first though!
At the moment they are feeding the deer each weekend at Attingham Park so they come up really close. We went last Sunday but I forgot my camera - so a return visit was needed today.
My husband is beautiful as well so here is a lovely one of him - wish he had had a shave first though!
Saturday, 24 January 2009
todays photo is..
Friday, 23 January 2009
Another day out...
Me in the middle of the estuary!
These rocks in the middle of the picture are where the cache was hidden and are only accessible for a few hours each day when the tide is out!
We walked up this huge hill behind Barmouth itself - Cader Olau, which was very hard work and involved scrambling over rocks etc - not bad for 2 old women!
but with very rewarding views at the top of the Snowdonia mountains and Cader Idris.
The gorgeous sight of Cader Idris as we arrived - thankfully we were not climbing up this snowy capped mountain today!
The old wooden toll bridge (60p) between Arthog and Barmouth
The Cache at Frenchmans grave halfway up Cader Olau.
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Out and about with friends
I have had a couple of days out walking with friends lately. Last week I walked up Caer Caradoc with Rachel - it was huge but I did it. The summit is behind the clouds at the right hand side of this photo - so it was a very good work out.
I was so chuffed with myself but as you can tell from this photo -I am still not fit enough to go climbing hills - my face is so red I look like I am fit to burst. Rachel is not even pink!
It was cold and frosty so we did not hang around for long - managed to admire the views - clouds in one direction (we were above them!) and clear skies in the other.
Yesterday I was out with Cathy and we went to Tyrely locks at Market Drayton - we did 3 caches around there and had a lovely walk along the canal. Cathy had new walking boots so managed the walk much better than last time when her hips really played up.


We had lunch at the lovely canal side pub (the Tavern wharf) I had seen a few weeks ago - it was gorgeous food.
Then we did a picture cache around the village of Hinstock in the afternoon to wear the huge dinner off.
Then we did a picture cache around the village of Hinstock in the afternoon to wear the huge dinner off.Sunday, 18 January 2009
I have been away..
staying with my sister and her family in Hemel Hempstead for a few days. I had a lovely time - did lots of walking, lots of geocaching (28 finds!). We walked along the Grand Union Canal and I introduced them to geocaching. Sian was quite good at finding them and got a bit annoyed when I was the finder of one really hard cache that we had spent ages looking for! Here they are getting to grips with the GPS.
and here is Sian still looking happy before I beat her to the cache!
There are some lovely pubs along the canal - I would love to come back here in the summer.
And I saw some lovely wildlife - lots of Herons but no kingfishers sadly.
We came here to the tree cathedral. Someone planted all these trees in the 1930's in the shape of a cathedral
And we walked around Dunstable Downes - which looks a lovely place but the mist was down when I visited but you could still see that it was an impressive place - again I want to come back here in the summer.
I had planned to go to a Photoshop Elements workshop at Willow Tree Crafts in Watford, but got the day wrong and it was Sunday not Saturday as I thought - but I still popped into her lovely shop and bought a few goodies - more stamps - I think I am going mad - I keep buying stamps but never ever use them!! Perhaps I should make a concentrated effort and try to use them - I hope you will see some appearing on some layouts very soon.Wednesday, 14 January 2009
Back to Oxford
I spent a lovely day in Oxford yesterday, finishing of the canal geocaches that we did not manage to fit in before Christmas. Had a lovely time even though it was raining.
Todays photo is taken in a lane outside New College at dusk. I was here starting the University Challenges geocaches. Found this one without trouble, but had to lurk around looking very suspicious whilst waiting for people to disappear so that I could return it to its hiddy place.
This photo is taken outside the Bodlean & Sheldonian - I thought he fading light highlighted the gothic spires and this photo below is in total contrast. Ancient verus modern - this is the new Said Business school which looks gorgeous day and night - I had not got my tripod, so I am afraid this pic does not really do it justice.