27th June photo - cherry cake

Its quite good having a house day every now & then because I usually have something to photograph! Todays photo is the cherry cake that I made yesterday. I have not made one of these for ages - lets hope it tastes as good as it looks.

26th June photo - mmmm....syrup!

After my exertions of yesterday - I am having a stay at home day today, so have done a nice batch of baking. I caught sight of these drops of syrup running down the side of the tin and thought 'yummy' - lovely to eat and great photo opportunity!

I think this top photo is going to be my photo of the day - but I have added a few more so show the lovely tin - which could have been a POTD - even without syrup running down the side as it is such an iconic item.

I have a sweet tooth so can never resist a spoonful of syrup when baking.

I tried to copy Karen's white background - but it is not right - too much shadow because I could not be bothered to go outside - so I have the shadow from the window - anyway lesson learnt - make sure there is no shadow.

25th June photo - Snowdon

Today T and I walked up Snowdon - along with half of the rest of the country!! It was so busy - I think the nice weather and the new cafe must have been a real draw.

T managed to take this nice photo of me at the summit - I don't know how she did it as the top was swarming with people - even though it looks like I was there by myself - I was not!! This is going to be my photo of the day. Unfortunately the same can not be said for the photo I took of her at the top - people everywhere - and I call myself a photographer!

It was very strange to be so high up that we were higher than helicopters & birds!

This is the new cafe - it is very nice and I think it blends in well to the environment.

The weather was glorious - nice and sunny - a bit too hot for walking up mountains really - but unfortunately there was a heat haze at the top so the views were not as good as we were expecting.

Like the summit we visited 2 weeks ago at Llandudno - there is a train to the summit. Half way up, I was beginning to wish that we had come up this way - my legs were so tired. However I am very pleased that I did it in 3 hours - last time I came with Liam in 2004, it took me 4 hours up and 3 1/2 down - this time we were down in 2 - so a great improvement in my fitness.

We even managed to fit in 3 geocaches whilst we were there - which were quite tricky to do with so many people about.

24th June photo - the boys have gone to Glastonbury!

The boys have gone off to Glastonbury tonight and the weather looks promising - so lets hope they won't be wallowing in mud this year.

The 'boys' are Steven, Liam & Keith - our next door neighbour. They are quite veterans of the festival now - but still get very excited about it. They are all smiling on this photo above - so this is my photo of the day.

They have been able to borrow this little caravan again this year - I reversed into it last year and damaged it! but they were able to fix it and I have had to promise to take extra care whilst it has been sitting in our drive.

23rd June - summer flowers

There are beautiful summer flowers every where at the moment so I thought that I would have a walk around my neighbourhood to see if I could find a photo of the day.

My neighbours are clearly very good gardners, as I now have lots to choose from again. I think it is likely to be the pink roses, as they remind me of a rose we used to have in the garden when I was a child. I can clearly remember making 'perfume' with the petals - how strange is it though, that I can't remember other things like what I need to buy from the shops or what I ran upstairs for!!

22nd June photo - open air art gallery - its a bit photo heavy this post - sorry!

Conscious that I needed to take photos of more interesting subjects this week - this afternoon I popped out to Llanfair Caereinion, where there is an open air art gallery, which I have passed a few times on my travels and kept in mind as a photo of the day.

Well I was not disappointed - there were wood and metal sculptures dotted throughout the woodland and they were really fun and interesting to look at. The sculptor Andy Hancock - creates them from logs of wood - carving away until the natural shape of the wood dictates the finished product.

Dilemma time again though - which one do I choose?? It will have to be one of these top few because they are in landscape orientation.

The artist was in residence so I watched him at work - he is a very talented guy!

I really like this green man - sticking his tongue out!

Apparently he has more work on show around Lake Vyrnwy - so perhaps later in the year I will go and visit there.

21st June photo - bathroom jar

I had to look around the house (again) for something to take a photo of today and decided on this jar that lives on the bathroom windowsill that the boys keep their razors in.

The light from the window reflects nicely in the glass balls. I really can't remember where or when we got it - it seems to have been there for ages!

Edited *** Eleanor rang me last night to say that she bought me the jar as a present - opps! Sorry Eleanor.

Promise I will find something more interesting to photograph tomorrow!