24th March photo - scones!

I have spent the morning baking - pineapple fruit cake and fruit scones.


The scones looked so delicious spread with a little Lurpack butter for my lunch, that todays photo was an easy choice.

23rd March photo - Eleanor in central Park

Clearly I have not taken today's photo - it was taken last week while Eleanor & Peter were in New York. She sent me 2 DVD's containing over 2,000 photos that they had taken - so I have spent the day deleting most of them from my laptop and main computer - so as this has what has occupied most of my day I feel justified in using it! (and its lovely and I can't wait to scrap it)

And this is a photo of her poster presentation of her research work, at the Conference they attended in Chicago and their reason for the trip to the States.

21st & 22nd March photos

No blogging done this weekend as Steven & I were away doing something rather novel - signing on the dotted line for a new caravan!

I think this is Steven's mid life crisis - I suppose its preferable to another woman or a fast car! He has been hankering after one for 12 months but I have not been so keen, but I finally relented after speaking to one of my friends. She said to go for it now - you don't know what is around the corner. She & her husband had made lots of plans of what they were going to do in his retirement - only for him to die 2 years before he retired and none of those plans fulfilled. This made me think and she is right - we only have one life so we should live it.

So this weekend we became the proud owners of this caravan at Clarach Bay in Wales. As you can see it overlooks the sea which is lovely - but is also quite noisy. The crashing waves woke us bright & early Sunday morning.

This is the view from the bench at the front of the caravan - roll on warmer weather so we can sit outside and enjoy the view.

This is a close view of the beach - it is mostly sand but at one end are layers of stratified rock which are very dynamic to look at.

But it makes the most lovely rock pools to play about in.

In the afternoon we had a wonder about the beach and site looking for photos for Sunday 21st and I think it will be one of these final 3.

This wooden fence over the river to the sea.

These beautiful stones on the beach.

Or this strange coloured seaweed.

20th March photo - agghhh!!!!

Today's photo would have been beautiful - had the SD card not been stuck in my computer but in the camera! Rachel and I have been walking along the Long Mynd and went to the Gliding club and saw some lovely gliders. In desperation I took a few photos on my phone but for some very stange reason they were saved to the camera not the micro SD card - so I can't get them off the phone - I am so frustrated because it was so lovely up there today. So I have had to resort to this one - my new geocoins from the Geocoin Collectors Club which arrived yesterday.


These are the February 09 coins and theyare quite cool. They depict the thorns and brambles that us geocachers have to battle in our quest to find some sneakily hidden caches. I have plenty of war wounds from doing battles with pesky brambles & thorns - so I have earned my stripes!

19th March photo - thats it - no more spring flowers!!

After many attempts to take a nice close up photo of a daffodil and failing miserably - I decided that a group shot would work better - hence todays photo. And thats it now - I think I have taken enough spring flower photos!


mind you - I did see some lovely yellow primroses the other day and the tulips will be out soon - so perhaps this is not the end of the flowers!

18th March - urban sheep?

Despite my many rural photos - I am in fact a town dweller - so today I thought I would show an urban scene ~ with a rural twist!
These 5 sheep form a sculpture which sits outside our Tesco store. It is on the site of the old cattle market where farmers used to bring their cows, pigs and sheep to sell every Tuesday, until only recently - even the cattle market has moved to 'an out of town site' now! hence this subject matter. The sculpture has not been without controversy - some people don't like it and others were outraged at the cost £50,000. I quite like it, as I think art - in what ever form - brings an interest to an urban landscape littered with traffic lights and road signs and will give visitors a marker point if they get lost.

17th March photo - Bromlow Callow

I have been out walking this morning in the South Shropshire Hills. I took loads of photos - mostly for my PWL course. This is the one I have chosen for today.

It shows Bromlow Callow - a unique Shropshire landmark. The trees on top of this hill can be seen for miles around. I have shot them through a frame of a disused mine shaft.
I chose the first shot because when taken close up - the trees don't have the same effect.


This is Bromlow Callow showing the unique trees in the distance and this is the disused mine shaft I captured the shot through.

After Bromlow Callow I drove to White Grit and started on Corndon. I had not been up this hill before and it involved a more strenuous walk. But the views on the way up more than made up for it.

The sun came out when I got to the top so I sat, got my breath back and admired the views. I took loads of photos of the rocks at the top - because this weeks assignment is to take a B & W photo - but in fact I prefer the colour shots - so I will have to try and find something else to turn B & W.