Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
I didn’t go out to photograph fireworks this year so Elisa’s challenge was difficult until I decided to have a play at editing, this is the result.
If you would like to join in visit http://autumninbruges.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/music-in-pictures-contest-firework/ and maybe there will be some real fireworks!
For this weeks challenge I have chosen a photo taken on Exeter Quay. It is a railway turntable that has been ‘renewed’ to make a seating area. It’s actually full of history, a rare example of Isambard Brunel’s broad gauge branch line built in 1867. It carried both broad and narrow guage track along the canal basin. Isn’t it great that it has been preserved and renewed?
For more renewals visit http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/weekly-photo-challenge-renewal/
Agatha Christie, perhaps the most famous crime writer ever, was born twenty miles away in Torquay. After her first marriage failed (she discovered her husband was having an affair) she met and married Max Mallowan and moved to Greenway in 1938. The gardens are now part of the National Trust, and because of the lack of parking space they encourage you to arrive there by public transport. With a choice of the bus or a ferry up the river Dart from Dartmouth, you can guess what I did on a glorious summer day!
The ferry calls at Dittisham on the west side of the river, a pretty little village in itself, and like Dartmouth, home to many wealthy yachty types. When you disembark at Greenway, you walk up towards the house with the view of the river unfolding, and I’m sure it must have been the most perfect place for Dame Agatha to write. She used several Devon locations in her books, including Burgh Island, for Ten ittle Indians. They have murder mystery weekends there in the 1930’s art deco hotel, just a few miles down the coast.
The house at Greenway is still in the family, and is not open to the public, her daughter lives there. I was there for the garden and was a little disappointed, it was high summer but it isn’t a flower garden. It may have changed now, as the National Trust have been involved a bit longer. The beauty lies in the view, the journey, and of course if you are a fan, the knowledge that you walk in Agatha’s footsteps.
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This week my entry is about the contents of the window. In Ashburton there is a window featuring a sculpture by Heather Jansch. She has become well known for her driftwood horses, but unless you live in the UK I doubt you would know of her.
Have a look at her website, its really stunning work, my phone shot doesn’t do it justice.
Whenever I see this crazy sport I’m compelled to watch but I hold my breathe. One slip could be disastrous, they are so fearless, I don’t remember ever feeling this invincible in my youth! It’s the first time I’ve seen it in daylight but I still only had my phone camera. Have you ever tried this? or any extreme sport? I would love to see your photos if so.
What could be more wonderful than an English Oak tree, spreading it’s huge canopy over the land for centuries? 
Check out Jake’s post and his other visitors http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/sunday-post-wonderful/
This is the first time I’ve joined in with Marianne’s monthly challenge, I couldn’t resist ‘Blue’, who could? Can you? If not join in here http://eastofmalaga.net/2012/11/01/cbbh-photo-challenge-blue/
I wanted to try something different, so I’ve cropped quite a bit of non blue from this shot.
It’s Dartington again, my second photo from there this week. Earlier in the year they featured some children’s artwork in the garden, it was lovely to see it gently swirling in the breeze.
This is what CBBH is all about!
Marianne says ‘On the first day of each month, I will provide a theme to inspire you to post your own interpretation. Create your own blog post before the end of the month and entitle it “CBBH Photo Challenge: (subject of the month)”, providing a link to this blog so I´ll know you´re participating, and others can find it, too.
Ailsa’s theme this week is an antidote to all of the dark images of Halloween we have seen this week. Visit her here http://wheresmybackpack.com/2012/11/02/travel-theme-bright/ to join in or see lots more bright images. I’ve decided to limit myself to one photo this week, taken at Hagia Sofia, St Sophia in Istanbul.
I hope it’s bright enough!
Lucid Gypsy 