Another good year
For sweet crab apple jelly
John Downie prevails
Travel Theme: Sky
TO celebrate FIVE years of blogging at WordPress, I’m re-blogging my most popular post ever, with 10,144 views. It was first posted on 1st December 2013 and one of the images, the pink Dartmoor sky is still on the first page of a google search for sky even now. I’m also about to become lucidgypsy.com . Thank you all for your loyalty, friendship and support, you’re wonderful!
Ailsa has the most amazing photo on her site as part of her Sky theme. The one of Bonneville Salt Flats, have a look, I’m sure you’ll like it too. While you’re there, think about joining her challenge this week, everyone has good sky photos!
This is a local one taken on Dartmoor a few years ago.
The sun going down over Tunku Abdul Raman Park – the islands off of Kota Kinabalu.
Looking through the sky down to the Alps somewhere over northern Italy.
This one is on Borneo, I think the cloud is ascending through a hole in the sky.
To join in visit Ailsa, http://wheresmybackpack.com/2013/11/29/travel-theme-sky/
Wordless Wednesday
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.
Six Word Saturday
Three shades of funky, Granny’s Bonnets.
Weekly Photo Challenge, Bad Hair Daisy
I really like Cheri Lucas Rowlands theme for this weeks photo challenge, and I hope that Daisy makes you smile.
If you want to join in, the theme is ‘Face’, and can be interpreted any way you choose. Pop over to the Daily Post and see what other people come up with.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Tiny secret glade
potential lunchtime magic
for a brief foray
Wordless Wednesday
Lucid Gypsy 