from another world
they are the trapped outsiders
neither here nor there
Month: November 2016
Wordless Wednesday
Looking Forward
As someone who likes sculpture, I have to confess to being a complete idiot. You know how you walk past something regularly and don’t even notice it? well this is one of those things. Commissioned in 1977 by Exeter city Council, for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, it’s one of a series by Peter Thursby, and named Looking Forward.
The sculpture depicts a Podman, they were ‘Little men on scaffolding, constructing buildings. They appeared to be framed in boxes, like peas in a pod’. Thursby made a full sized model from polystyrene in his Exeter studio. The finished work was cast by the Chris Blackmore foundry near Ashburton.
Will any of you confess to discovering something that you’ve walked past hundreds of times and not seen?
Late Autumn Leaves
Last year I went to Stourhead at the end of October, to see the glorious autumn colour. Circumstances this autumn meant that I didn’t get there until yesterday, by which time a lot of the leaves had fallen. There was still plenty to see and it was a perfect day for another ‘getting back my fitness’ stroll. Rather than repeat last years post, I’m joining Jude’s Garden Challenge with a few leaves, because she wants to see anything found in a woodland environment.
Jude’s post is about the New Forest in Hampshire, pop over and see, maybe join in!
Ascending luminosity
Paula has given us a list of five words to choose from for her Thursday special this week. I’ve chosen two, ascending and luminosity, in one photo.
Taken with my i phone 6, I think the graininess adds atmosphere – that’s my excuse anyway – from the 6th floor of Hotel Casanova on the Gran Via in Barcelona.
The other words on Paula’s list are idleness, jaunty and whiff in case you’d like to join in, you have until Thursday.
Happy Sunday!
Six Word Saturday
Who’s got who, cat or mouse?
Weekly Photo Challenge, Tiny
Cheri at the Daily Post has challenged us to celebrate the tiny things in life for this weeks photo challenge. This miniature cottage is a replica of the building I was standing beside, the Old Post Office at Tintagel, Cornwall, a National Trust property.
Do you have anything tiny to share? Join in here.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Wordless Wednesday
Black and White Sunday, a Barcelona Nightscape
Paula asks for a nightscape in black and white and says ‘the absence of colour lets us focus on shapes more’. I agree, clear definition and form seems to work best.
My photo was taken from the Arenas rooftop in Barcelona, which is a circle of restaurants with views over the city.
The Arenas was once the city’s bullring, and is now a smart shopping mall, a much better use, don’t you agree?
Lucid Gypsy 