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Lusty Glaze
“Lusty Glaze”. Sounds a bit dodgy, right? At least to me.
Turns out it’s a beach! A tiny private beach, where we had this year’s work summer party. A lovely barbecue on a beautifully warm and sunny day last week.
I took these pictures as the sun went down. People (younger, fitter people than I) were playing football (that’s soccer, not handegg) and volleyball while the kids ran about having fun.
Finally my camera phone let me down a little. I can’t mess with the aperture and whatnot and I was facing the setting sun so it used the sun to get the light level.
A Morning at Godrevy
Yesterday I went for a visit to Godrevy, another location owned by the National Trust. In contrast to Trelissick, Godrevy is all cliffs and beaches.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking 🙂
A Morning at Trelissick Garden
I took a trip to Trelissick Garden yesterday and took some snaps. The first set are from the “woodland walk” (it goes down to the water before entering the woods) and the second is from inside the garden itself.
Here is the set from the gardens. Please excuse my finger at the top of one of the shots!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Crooked and Squiggly
I haven’t done a “Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge” before, but I took a couple of photos yesterday which I thought fit with this one quite well. They’re not great as I am just a “happy snapper” with a camera phone, though I am getting into this photography thing, so a decent camera is now on my list (along with new TV and new bed).
The challenge is “crooked and squiggly”. I took these pictures at Trelissick Garden, which is owned by the National Trust (I’m on holiday for two weeks so I took a wander there yesterday – more photos to follow).
I’m not sure why the branches grew like this! In search of the sun?
Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge – Room
This week’s photo challenge is “Room”. I thought I’d share before, during and after shots of my bedroom as I moved in.
Bedroom
Oh no!
Getting there…
Lazy boy that I am, it took me weeks to put the bed back together 🙂
Update from the DraliGarden
The bluebells have gone away for this year 😦 but some more random flowers have arrived!
It turns out the pot in the back didn’t have daffodils in after all.
Unknown white flower
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring
This week’s Daily Post photo challenge is all about Spring. Not the boingy kind, but the season.
I have some flowers coming up in my garden. It’s quite exciting – I only bought the house a couple of months ago so I didn’t plant them and I don’t know what’s going to appear next!
Here is a picture of bluebells, according to my parents. I admit that they are bell-shaped, though more purple than blue, I would say. They also reckon that the little white flowers are garlic. Possibly the previous owner was worried about vampires.
Obviously I have some weed-removal yet to do, but I had to check with my parents first as I tend to remove the flowers and leave the weeds, left to my own devices.
Bluebells and weeds and stuff
Close-up of the bluebells
I have no idea of what these things on the stalks on the right of the picture are.
Little white things on stalks
Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life
Here are some photos for this week’s photo challenge, which asks us to show some aspect of street life. I usually find old photos which are relevant to the prompt, but I was in town this morning and took these specially for the occasion!
Every Saturday there is a little market in my local city of Truro. There is locally-caught fish, meats, flowers, crafts and even an olive stall! I was going to buy flowers for Mother’s Day tomorrow but I ended up buying them in the supermarket instead.
A teeming metropolis of twenty thousand or so people, Truro is the only city in Cornwall. Today was cold and raining 😦 . These were taken at around 9 am this morning using my phone.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
This week’s Photo Challenge from The Daily Post wants a photo which says “Inside”. I have two photos which show inside and outside!
When it’s a bit chilly outside (even though the sun has come out)…
Truro, Cornwall one early chilly but sunny Saturday morning
… it’s nice to snug up nice and warm in the living room of my new house with the gas fire on (and watch Dr Who).
Inside the sitting room in my new house
Double flash reflection and a finger in the way! I am such the photographic professional 🙂 .
A Belated Farewell to 2013
We’re already well into 2014 and I still haven’t said a proper goodbye to 2013.
Goodbye 2013!
There we go.
As I left work on New Year’s Eve I saw a beautiful rainbow arcing over the buildings, a fitting end to the year. Quick as a flash, I whipped out my phone and snapped a photo.
Alas, my trusty phone camera let me down 😦 . It’s all a bit washed out.
A beautiful rainbow, ruined by my stupid phone camera.
But never fear! I own an expensive and sophisticated set of filters incorporated into cutting-edge image processing software. I have brought all of this to bear on the problem – I hope you’ll appreciate the result below!
There, that’s better. Possibly the pot of gold wasn’t there originally.
Thanks to modern technology, you can now view the beautiful rainbow in all its awe-inspiring glory.
On the blogging front, I thought it might be fun to view my “all-time” visitor stats. You can see where I started to take it seriously, and then in the second half of last year I did some Daily Prompts and began writing Friday Fictioneers submissions, among other things. Things really took off, I started following lots of really cool blogs and I “met” a great bunch of people!
Now I have started participating in Kerrie Salsac’s brilliant new Chain Writing Game, so the only way is up (potentially)!
Here’s to 2014, and a huge thank you to everybody who takes the time to read, comment on and like my posts 🙂 .
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