Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
It’s time for Sandra’s Thursday Windows once again. This is Cathedral Close in Exeter showing the 16th century Mols Coffee House and to the left is St Martins church, one of the oldest buildings in the city, consecrated a year before the Norman conquest. These windows and all the rest in the area have been around a long time!
Julia has chosen this picture for her challenge this week. A photo I have seen before and wondered, whatever would make someone walk to the edge, never mind sit there? How would you get back up again?
So I think it would have to be a very desperate reason.
Long Drop
That morning he’d found her cowering in the barn, her face turned eggplant purple, and an ugly gash to the back of her head. His brother-in-law had stirred when Ray took the gun from his belt, and pulled a blade, as he used the hay bales to push himself up. He crumpled instantly, blood sprayed from his mouth, it took just one of his own bullets, shot from Ray’s steady hand.
He listened until he had heard both a heavy thud and an empty metallic clatter. That’s taken care of it. I’ve covered my tracks and she’ll come to no harm again.
I was up on Scorhill yesterday, a beautiful blue sky day and there were quite a few ponies around. I’m sure I photographed this grey mare in 2010, she hangs around the same spot. As well as this years foal, last years was still close by and I managed to snap them as she herded them away. I had the zoom lens on so I wasn’t too close.
Aren’t they beautiful?
People, I don’t take that many photos of groups of people, but that’s how I have interpreted the challenge. A group of fledgling people.
People who one day will
Heal our sickness
Grow our food
Stitch our clothes
Build our homes
Drive our trains
Clear our drains
Rule our world
And until then
Make us smile
This is for Jakes Printer perhaps you will visit to see his animations?
I knew exactly what I would share with you when I saw the theme this morning. This solitary black swan has been around the river for a year or so, and Fifi as she is known, hit the local newspaper this week because she is lonely. There are lots of mute swans on the Exe and the canal, but of course black swans are native to Australia, not Britain. When I saw her last year, I assumed she had made her way up river from Dawlish, where there has been a colony for decades. Apparently not though, she is not ringed and it’s thought that she may have escaped from a private garden. She has been nest building but has no mate, the local birds have attacked her and she is probably feeling terribly rejected. The Dawlish swan herd says that she should be taken there, but that it would be costly to capture and move her and so far no one has offered to pay. I hope the newspaper article prompts a donation from a wealthy bird lover! Here she is. 
There are lots more interpretations of solitary over at The Daily Post
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!
http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/09/20/travel-theme-white/
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!
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!
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!
Lucid Gypsy 