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Chapel Porth
Just a quick post for this Sunday evening. A couple of weeks ago everyone at work went down to Chapel Porth one carload at a time to get our photos taken for one of our websites. Chapel Porth is on the north coast of Cornwall, a few miles from my work.
There we stood on the beach next to cameras and a big professional lamp while older couples wandered past with their dogs. I snapped a few pictures with my phone while we were there.
Colliford Lake
I thought I’d pop up some photos of my recent trip to Colliford Lake while I’m waiting for my muse to come back.
Colliford Lake is in Cornwall, UK. There are a couple of other pictures here.
Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge
The lovely Hope* The Happy Hugger has started a new challenge – Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge!
This is quite the challenge for me as I don’t have any pets. However, not wishing to exclude the sadly petless, she has indicated that any pictures of animals will be okay, so here are a couple of pictures of some horsies. I’m sorry that the horsies are so far away, but I was worried that they might come a-chargin’ at me. I don’t know if horsies are the type of animal that go a-chargin’ at people but I didn’t want to take any chances.
Horsies
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea – share a photo which means SEA to you.
The sea – wild, vast, untameable.
Perranporth, Cornwall, UK
Extending along the cliffs and to the horizon.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Carefree
Weekly Photo Challenge – Carefree
On a recent holiday to Wales I visited Coed y Brenin forest park. After walking for a while I sat under the tree you can see on the far left of the photo.
For the first time in years my mind just emptied as I watched the water flow past – for the first time in years I felt completely carefree.
Chained
This is a follow-up poem to yesterday’s Haiku. Sorry about the picture re-use – I only took the one photo!
Children of the skies
Ambassadors of freedom
Homes replaced by metal
A legacy of greed
Uneasy pets now
A spectacle for eager eyes
Chained to the earth
No more to fly free
Break your chains, little bird
Break your chains and fly!
Jelly Bike
While wandering around a forest in Wales I saw this sign warning cyclists of a rough trail ahead.
I felt it was missing something so I’ve added a little chap having a hard time on the bumpy road.
Before you call someone in authority to report me for criminal damage please note that I added my little picture using a drawing tablet and a computer – I did NOT take a felt tip pen to the actual sign!
Weekly Photo Challenge – The Golden Hour
This was taken while at my company’s summer party in Falmouth, Cornwall (UK). The sun has gone down behind the hotel leaving the grounds in darkness but it is still illuminating the headland, upon which you can see Pendennis Castle, which was built in 1539 by Henry VIII (though I doubt he actually did any of the heavy lifting himself!).
I didn’t have my camera with me so I took this with my phone, and then zoomed and cropped it a bit when I got home.
This is my contribution to The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge – The Golden Hour.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Nostalgic
Simpler Times
I don’t remember these photos being taken as such, I was too young (I’m the one on the left in both photos). The other chap is my little brother. I remember the setting on the right – outside our old house in Carnon Downs, Cornwall, where I spent the first 5 years of my life. These were taken in the early 1970s.
The little wooden fort below was made for us by our Dad – in the 70s you didn’t just nip out to the shops for new toys. Your dad would disappear into the garage or shed and emerge a couple of days later with a cool new fort! The drawbridge even went up and down (counterbalanced by a cotton reel my mum had finished with). We got years of use out of this fort. Again, I’m on the left, my brother is on the right.
Don’t I look smart in the photo on the right, ready to start “big” school aged 12?
This was posted in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge – nostalgic.
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