Travel Theme: White

Posted on September 21, 2012September 21, 2012 Posted in Devon, England, India, TravelTagged Beer, Bikaner, Devon, England, Gittisham, India, Photography, Temple, Thatch cottage, travel, Travel Theme: White22 Comments

To mark the 30th annual World Peace Day Ailsa has chosen White this week. I’ve chosen three peaceful white scenes to share with you.

The first is taken in Beer, a little fishing village in East Devon. Beer is on the Jurassic coast and it’s a place I visit regularly. It’s always mystified me because it has white cliffs, but as you can see in the distance, the cliffs to the east at Seaton are red, as are the next around to the west.

Next, a pretty white thatched cottage also in Devon.

Finally, a lovely white entrance to a temple in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The door is solid silver.

Please go and visit Ailsa – it’s worth the trip for the white peacock!

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Music in Pictures Contest: Losing my Religion

Posted on September 21, 2012 Posted in England, PhotographyTagged England, Music in Pictures Contest, Nun, Photography, Sister12 Comments

Elisa has chosen an REM track that you are certain to know, and I always knew there was a reason I took this photo!

If the song IS new to you Elisa has posted a youtube, check it out!

Lady Anne’s Rosemoor

Posted on September 20, 2012 Posted in Devon, England, Flowers, Gardens, Photography, TravelTagged Devon, England, Flowers, Gardens, Photography, Plants, Rosemoor, royal horticultural society, travel19 Comments

On of my favourite parts of Rosemoor is Lady Anne’s garden. She was the previous owner of Rosemoor, and in 1988 she donated her 8 acre garden and another 32 acres of land to the RHS. For this post I’m choosing some of Septembers loveliest flowers.

So, have you any idea which might be my favourite plant?

If you would like to know what any of the plants are, I remember most of them and I know a blogger who will know the ones I can’t recall!

Thursday’s Windows

Posted on September 20, 2012 Posted in Art and Design, England, PhotographyTagged England, Photography, Thursday's Windows, travel, Window11 Comments

Sandra had started a new challenge, Thursday’s Windows! She is taking a very light hearted approach, join in if you want or skip it if you don’t. It’s going to be windows every week so I don’t know if I can manage it but for now I’m joining her.

If you have a pretty, ugly or interesting window you would like to post the link at Sandra‘s!

Wordless Wednesday

Posted on September 19, 2012September 18, 2012 Posted in canon eos 450d, History, Photography, UncategorizedTagged 1926 engine, Engine, History, Machine, Photography, Ruston Hornsby Engine, Wordless Wednesday16 Comments

100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups Week# 58

Posted on September 17, 2012 Posted in flash fiction, Gardens, WritingTagged 100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups, Apples, Flash fiction, Gardens, Rosemoor, Sculpture22 Comments

I’ve missed a couple of weeks lately but I made it this time and early too. Julia’s prompt is ‘As the apple fell’ and I’m hoping she won’t mind that I’m adding a photo.

Repair Job

‘And this is our newest sculpture, perfect placing eh? We were lucky to get lottery funding,’ he said, puffed with pride, to the journalist who squinted as someone dashed towards them.

‘Ah, here comes the artist now.’

‘It’s striking,’ the woman from Gardeners Globe said, ‘I like the way the Raku makes it look, uh, well a bit rotten.’

‘Raku, I don’t make Raku, what the . . .?

‘Jim?’

‘I tried to glue it’

‘Jim?’

‘Thought I’d caught it but ‘twas wet see? Wet clay soil and I slipped as the apple fell off me wheelbarrow.’

The artist and gardener were equally flushed.

The Sunday Post: Autumn

Posted on September 16, 2012September 15, 2012 Posted in Devon, Food, Gardens, PhotographyTagged England, Gourds, Malabar Gourds, Photography, Plants, The Sunday post19 Comments

Jake has posted some rich autumn colour in his animation for the challenge this week

Here is my entry for autumnBut I don’t think that summer is over yet

There are plenty more of these guys for a start!

Fig leaf or Malabar gourds (Cucurbita Ficifolia Bouche) grown at Rosemoor from seeds planted in May this year.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

Posted on September 14, 2012 Posted in canon eos 450d, England, The Daily Post, Travel, Weekly Photo ChallengeTagged England, Everyday Life, Photography, The Daily Post, travel, Weekly Photo Challenge36 Comments

This is what they have to say about the challenge this week over at The Daily Post .

Everyday Life. This challenge is all about people and the things they do every day: working, eating, drinking, chatting, dreaming, walking, exercising, or any of those things we do all the time without really thinking about it. Take a walk around your neighbourhood, or around the streets where you work or study, and take a look at the people you see.You might think that your neighbourhood isn’t very interesting, but imagine that you’re giving a guided tour to someone from the other side of the world—what’s normal for you might be extraordinary to them.

And this is my entry.

Travel Theme: Texture

Posted on September 14, 2012 Posted in Craft, Photography, Travel, TurkeyTagged central anatolia, Photography, Sewing machine, Sultanhani Caravanserai, travel, Travel Theme: texture, Turkey21 Comments

Ailsa has chosen texture this week. I like the different textures of and around this old sewing machine, wood that is decaying, metal that is rusting and stone that is crumbling. I also wonder what stories it could tell us, whose hand has turned the missing handle and how many garments it has helped to create.

The photo was taken at Sultanhani Caravanserai on the road between Askaray and Konya, in Central Anatolia, Turkey.

Rosemoor, the Hot Garden in September

Posted on September 13, 2012 Posted in Devon, England, Flowers, Gardens, PhotographyTagged Devon, England, Flowers, Gardens, Photography, Plants, Rosemoor, royal horticultural society, travel18 Comments

I’ve posted about Rosemoor before here when I visited in winter for the sculpture exhibition. Being a Royal Horticultural Society garden, it is absolutely beautiful all year round and in late summer they have a ‘hot garden’ with a real wow factor, that my photos don’t really capture. It will give you an idea though and who knows maybe one day you will visit.