Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
If I danced whenever I want to, many more people would know I’m even crazier than they thought. Just a few days ago I was lamenting my inability to sing or play a musical instrument, she said ‘I bet you can dance Gilly’. She was right, I love dance in all it’s forms, but the very best kind is spontaneous.
when you’re moved by the beat
right there on the street
come on feel the heat
now get up on your feet
and dance with a perfect stranger
Trablogger invites us to find the beauty in everyday things and share with him and his visitors each Monday. Here’s my attempt this week.
The weather forecast was right, full sun all day today – yes this Brit is obsessed with the weather, it’s been a long, wet winter. A morning of housework gave me permission for an afternoon stroll, at Sidmouth. The town was busy but we found somewhere to park and a different entrance to the Byes.
Lots of blue sky and a tempting path.
Here’s Daisy, all excited and with a spring her tail.
There’s been some storm damage in recent years,
But plenty of new tree planting.
We’ll walk beside the river Sid for a while.
There are remains of a jetty.
Benches everywhere to watch the world go by.
Leaving the river, we’ll go up a gentle rise towards Golden Copse, 
in Margaret’s Meadow.
The sky became even bluer.
We were surrounded by birds, but most were too high in the trees. Never mind this robin gave us a lovely solo performance.
Back down to the river where lots of families were enjoying the day.
That’s the Byes, I’ve taken you and Jo walking there before, but in the winter, I hoped you liked spring. The dog friendly café on the sea front was full today as were the car parks, so we headed home. I’ll show you where we made a quick stop tomorrow.
Did you go out for a walk this weekend? I hope you had sunshine as well.
Paula has a weekly challenge where she invites us to post an image on a different them each week and I’m joining in for the first time. I’ve been lurking for a few weeks but this time I couldn’t resist as I love street art.
This is a bit different, subtle instead of bold, it’s subdued colours portray a time when Topsham was a busy fishing port.
Paula can be found here if you’d like to join in.
Lush sprouting hedgerow
the tender lime green hawthorn’s
bright new leaves of spring
This week’s photo challenge from the Daily Post is Harmony and I figured that this guy created some in his time.
Mozart’s musical language is that of tonal harmony
Jude is having a garden photography challenge for 2016, and this month theme is wildlife. Living in the UK, wildlife bigger than insects, is quite elusive, there are foxes in my neighbourhood but I haven’t seen one for years and only ever late at night. We also have frogs, toads and hedgehogs, but anytime I’ve seen one, I’m way too slow to think about a camera. A pond creates captive subjects, particularly if those subjects are a bit peckish, and at Marwood Hill carp and ducks are happy side by side when there’s food about.
Jude may just say that captive isn’t wild, and she’ll have to take my word for it that there’s a big garden around the pond!
To join in visit Jude at The Earth Laughs in Flowers.
It’s Mundane Monday and I’m posting for Jithin at Photrablogger for his weekly challenge, he says,
This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs
Michelle at the Daily Post describes harmony as,
“the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.”
There is a beautiful sculpture garden, Broomhill, that I’ve featured in the past, and when I saw that the challenge this week was Harmony, this photo popped out.
So perfectly placed
to reflect the harmony
of nature and art
Lucid Gypsy 