14th May photo - home baking

After a few complaints from those at home regarding lack of home baking recently - this morning I set out to rectify this with a mammoth baking session.

Jammy coconut tarts (photo of the day), chocolate date fingers and a Victoria Sandwich.

Now as long as I can resist these temptation's everyone will be happy!

13th April photo - sunny flowers

Today I found the perfect dandy clock and so this has to be my photo of the day. I am really pleased with how it came out.

I took quite a few photos of it and I changed my lens's over whilst doing so, but I can't remember which one actually took this shot as it has greater clarity than the others - so even though I am trying to improve my photography skills, I am still not paying enough attention!

This photo is the same dandy clock but with another lens and its fine, but I think the one above is better. That will teach me to take notice of what I am doing!

In trying to take better close up photos, I took this photo of a bluebell and was lucky enough to catch it just as a bee was creeping into it - which is great - but it is in portrait orientation - so the wrong way for my album.

another bluebell one minus the bee - but it has caught the sunlight nicely.

I was not so lucky with these forget-me-nots, I just could not not get a proper focus in on all the flowers on the close up shots - which was a shame as the further away I went the less impact the photo had. Its a double shame as forget-me-nots are my favourite flowers!

12th May photo - wonderous Wales

As the weather forecast was good for today, I thought where better to be on a sunny day than Wales - so I set off early and spent the day walking and exploring new places and having a wonderful time.

My photo of the day is this gorgeous shot of a mountain just outside Betws y Coed (either the one above or below) - I don't think its Snowdon, as it seemed too close - though I may be wrong. I was doing my first cache, which was a forest walk and suddenly I turned a corner and was greeted with this most amazing sight. It cheered me up no end and I smiled all the way back to the car from the joy of such a view. The sky was a gorgeous bright blue colour - which does not show up on the photo - I think it is time to invest in a polarising filter for my camera now - as I am hoping to have lots more photos like this over the summer - so it should be a good investment.After that I did a cache in a secluded wood full of bluebells and at the end of it were these 2 fab waterfalls. The sun was shinning through the leaves, filtering the light down onto the water - it looked really special - but my camera could not capture it - perhaps I need another type of filter as well for sunny conditions like this?

Then I did a cache in a pretty little village of Llanrwst - which I have never visited before. It was a nice river walk to show off this bridge built by Inigo Jones in 1636. It s beautiful bridge to look at, but not so nice to drive over - the 'hump' is rather high!

I also did 4 caches in looking at the old mine workings in one of the forests. They were really interesting but hard work on the legs. This picture of me is trying to show how huge the entrance to this mine is - its massive and you can walk inside - at your own risk!

This cache involved walking the plank - a bit of fun really to reach the cache on the other side.

A great day out, but I did not have enough time to fit in all the Mining caches, which I really would like to do - so I have a good excuse to return again soon.

11th April photo - a happy accident

After seeing Karen's lovely yellow rape seed field photo - I knew that I wanted to take one like that and yesterday I passed the perfect yellow field, so I returned today knowing how I wanted to take the shot - but the photo I have actually chosen for today is one when I focused in on the wrong part of the field, but I prefer it to all the others I had framed properly!

This is how I had imagined I wanted the shot - nice yellow fields with Church and hills in the background and its OK, but I am sticking with my happy accident!

10th May 2009 - Shrewsbury Regatta

Shrewsbury lies in a loop of the River Severn - but we don't really make the most of the river's assets, as other towns, such as Chester do - except for once a year when we host the Shrewsbury Regatta. This is an eagerly awaited event and it draws rowers & spectators from all over the country - so I popped down this afternoon to take a lovely photo. But taking photos of long shaped rowing boats moving at fast speed is not easy as I found out!

I took a lot of photos but really they are not very good - so my photo of the day is going to be either of the ones above - because I like the expressions on the faces of the rowers, showing all the effort they are putting in to win the race! Or may be the one below.



There are lots of events - adults, children's and masters. There are singles, doubles and eights. Male, female and mixed teams.

The events are centred around Shrewsbury School club house and Pengwern Rowing Club both in the Quarry Park and there were large crowds cheering the teams on today.




I always like the way they get the boats into the water - but even cropping this does not make it a good photo!

9th May photo - my favourite soap.

I adore L'Occitane products and this is one of my favourites - my lavender hand wash soap in my kitchen. The lumps on the label is Braille - so that those with with poor sight can 'read' what they are buying - a nice thoughtful touch.

8th May photo - its chocolate - but with a reason!

Joy said recently that someone likened this 365 project to real social history - so with that thought and that thought only in mind - I had to buy this bar of chocolate with the price on - so that in 20 years time when a bar costs £20 each - my grandchildren will be able to look at my album and say - 'ooh look how cheap chocolate was then'!!! well that's my excuse and I am sticking to it