Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
I’ve joined these together through lack of time at the right time. For her weekly Fun Foto Challenge Cee has chosen the 5 Chinese Elements, here are my 5 photos.
There were lots of entries – on time! over at http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/01/29/cees-fun-foto-challenge-fire/
Christa at http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/photo-challenge-home/ says
‘In a new post specifically created for this challenge, share a picture that evokes HOME for you.’
I love these homes that I saw in Northern Ghana. It looks like such a tight community, something to be treasured in our hectic world.
Ailsa has chosen Shadows for her travel theme over at http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/02/01/travel-theme-shadows/ this week. This is my response, a photo taken at Sultanhani Caravanserai in Turkey, and a quick poem.
On balance the shade is created
should some small creature have need
to escape fire radiating wall.
Justice will reign through unfolding hours
rusted metal absorbing the rays
til the wall is curtained with shade.
And the shadow that weighs
fades with sun’s last glow
and waits patient to forge a new day.
I’ve also linked to dVerse’s Poetics of Groundhog Day – Bright Shadow, thanks to Bjorn at http://brudberg.wordpress.com/
The Grand Western Canal country park weaves its eleven miles through mid Devon from Tiverton right to the border with Somerset. It makes for easy level walking or cycling, with a profusion of wildlife, fishing or even a trip on a horse drawn barge. These are some of the things I saw today.
The Tivertonia looked like it was being prepared for the start of the new season and my photo didn’t turn out well so this is one I found,courtesy of the bbc, of the barge on a summer trip.
As soon as I saw the challenge I knew this photo was my choice, taken last Sunday at a sculpture exhibition at, you guessed it, Rosemoor.
Would you like to join in this week? http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/photo-challenge-unique/
My friend is leavng the Trust today so we won’t get our weekly lunchtime chats, I’ll really miss her 😦 this is the photo I used to make her a good luck card.
She’s been a ray of sunshine that helped me through the week, especially when I was stressed because I had to apply for my job. She’s moving to a great new pastures and I’m sure she will love it and they will wonder how they managed before!
Myfanwy at http://chittlechattle.com/ began taking photos on a 100 step walk and several bloggers have followed her idea, it’s a great way of becoming aware of your surroundings. I’ve tried it from home and from work, and yesterday as I was at Rosemoor, where there is beauty in every direction, I decided to choose a particular starting point. Half way around the garden it changes its nature by going through an underpass on the A3124 to the original garden bequeathed by Lady Anne and bearing her name.
I walked 50 steps in each direction from here and saw this cute bird, part of the sculpture exhibition
Some well weathered and lichened stone
Plenty of greenery of course but I like this leaf
A sculpture with an interesting texture
A leaf with a shimmer, about fifty centimetres across
These are my favourites, I love the way the shadow became blue and I have no idea why, but I used my phone camera to take these shots because I was dodging the rain.
Hope you like my steps Myfanwy!
I saw these today at RHS Rosemoor and as I know nothing about orchids I’ll just show you.
Lucid Gypsy 