Category: Photography
Black and White Sunday
Paula loves abstracts and says that they are everywhere, and can be seen in everything. I agree and love them too, and black and white adds to the mystery if there is one.
You can join in with the challenge if you’d like, Paula would be delighted.
Lanhydrock, a National Trust Stroll
Last Sunday afternoon I paid a flying visit to Lanhydrock, a National Trust property in Cornwall. Arriving just before 2.30 there wasn’t much time to linger, and after the bluebells, the grounds beckoned.
Down the long drive we go.
Here’s the gatehouse.
First look at the formal gardens, with the chapel in the background.
Part of the gatehouse door.
It’s raining so I’m going inside the house and I may take you one day, but for now you can see the view through some of the windows.
After exploring the vast house full of treasures great and small, I resisted the gift shop. Luckily my friend didn’t, so there was fudge to share 🙂 and this door led to the courtyard.
Where an equally handsome door was firmly closed.
We head around the corner, where a very pristine garden waits.
Which isn’t really my cup of tea, I prefer a far less structured, wild look, but I can still admire one occasionally. The rain is annoying now, the mizzely kind that while not heavy, get’s you very damp. We walk back through the gatehouse,
wishing for more time to explore the windy paths.
And back up the long drive to where we began, passing the bluebells growing on top of the banks, with late primroses at the bottom.
I’m sharing my Lanhydrock visit with Jo. She’s been travelling Europe for weeks, but I think she’s still walking for Mondays,
Very Wild Flowers
Jude invites us to share images of wild flowers for the month of May, and this one is about as wild as you can get. Luckily she doesn’t seem to say that they can’t be exotic, because this one was taken on the banks of Kinabatanga river in Borneo.
I don’t know what it is, it looks quite like a streptocarpus, but I think they originate in South Africa? Visit Jude to join her Garden Challenge, which has a different them each month.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Tiny secret glade
potential lunchtime magic
for a brief foray
Wordless Wednesday
It must be spring
because it’s bluebell time!
Let’s have a peep.
I wonder if how big this blue carpet is.
How big? this big.
No, it’s even bigger and prettier up close.
Two years ago I posted bluebells at Blackbury camp, and I still think it’s the best place to see them, but here at Lanhydrock it’s a close second, what do you think?
Mundane Monday Week #58
Jithin at Trablogger believes in finding the beauty in the everyday and sharing it with the rest of the blogging world. Every Monday he posts his Mundane Monday photo, why not pop over and see what he’s created, maybe even join in?
Here’s my photo for the week.
Find Jithin here.
Paula’s Thursday Special, Scattered.
Paula at Lost in Translation says that when things are scattered, they are spread out all over the place. That sounds a bit like my desk, but we won’t go there!
Instead, look at the way this white lichen is scattered on the bark of this tree, it looks like paint has been flicked around.
Speaking of bark, Meg has shared some tactile Polish trees.
Earth, our magnificent planet
For this weeks photo challenge, Jen H askes that we share our vision of our magnificent earth through our lens.
I’ve seen some remarkable places on our planet, but the images that sprung to mind right away were the ones I took in Cappadocia, a few years ago. Situated in central Anatolia, Â Goreme National Park has troglodyte villages, fairy chimneys and rock hewn churches, that date back to the 4th century.
This is an unforgettable world heritage site, that more than repays the effort it takes to visit. To learn more visit the Unesco site.
Lucid Gypsy 