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
Mozart in Harmony
Tag: travel
The Broadchurch Beach
Broadchurch is a British crime drama series filmed in various locations in the south west of England. It has won several BAFTA’s and there has been an American remake, under the name of Gracepoint and also starring David Tennant of Dr Who fame.
It was first shown in the UK three years ago, and I’ve yet to see an episode, but I have been to the beach, it’s just down the road from Bridport, at West Bay!
Looking west at West Bay, uh, the Broadchurch bay
On a rough February day.
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Looking east.
Blowing away the cobwebs and getting icy cold hands!
Have you seen Broadchurch, if so should I try to catch it even though I don’t watch crime drama?
It’s Daily Post Time
This week, think about time and portray it photographically.
Perhaps you have a fascination with clocks. Or maybe contemplating time takes you somewhere else completely. I hope you enjoy this week’s challenge.
Time is Lignum Draco’s photo challenge this week.
I’ve always been fascinated by time zones, daylight hours and changing our clocks forwards and backwards in spring and autumn. I can’t wait for clocks to spring forward on March 27th so that evenings are longer.
Last September I took a ferry trip, I got on this one, at 11.32
here,
enjoyed the river for ten minutes and then got off
here! But it wasn’t 11.42, instead it was 12.42 because Spain is an hour ahead of Portugal.
Did I lose an hour? If so I found it again later in the afternoon,
somewhere on the return ferry.
Winter by the sea
I had a half day on Friday and was keen to see the sea, so Sidmouth it was. My friend and I found a free parking spot right on the sea front, and crossed the road to check out the waves.
Looking west they were roaring and churning.
and to the east, just as rough and the distant cliffs of Lyme Bay were hidden in the sea mist.
We wandered down the slipway by the breakwater. The only shelter from the wind was up close to the wall.
But there was more to see on the pebbles, I liked the black and white one and was tempted to take it home, but didn’t.
The lifeboat man 😉 stood guard opposite the RNLI station, he’s been waiting there for a very long time.
We’ll come back and check the cliffs a bit later. For now we’re having a little respite from the wind, and heading for town.
This beautiful and traditional shop, Mountstephen, has been trading since 1902, but way out of my price range.
Trumps, a grocers for two hundred years closed down in 2014. It’s very sad to see this once wonderful shop go the way of so many local food shops. They sold fabulous food, but couldn’t make it pay any longer. It’s a Grade 2 listed building, and it looks like the upstairs isn’t going to be converted into apartments.
The Square will be elbow to elbow with people in six months time, for the folk festival, but all is quiet on the last Friday in January.
The Anchor is a lovely pub, all year round and they host live music and even story telling during the festival.
We had hot chocolate and rich, buttery shortbread in a favourite seafront café, Mocha, and then tempted by a bit of blue sky, stepped across the esplanade.
I wonder if my eyes deceive me, surely no one would be kite surfing in that sea, but yes and he must be crazy!
We watched for a while and I must say I was glad to see him safely back on the beach (excuse the photo, my i phone can’t manage the distance).
The empty esplanade is waiting for summer, just as I am.
For now we’ll head into the sea mist, towards the cliffs.
At the end of the promenade the river Sid trickles into the sea, and it’s no longer safe to walk on that part of the beach, because of the frequent landslides that are eroding the sandstone.
Can you see the pieces of wood dangling down from the clifftop? It’s the remains of a fence that was previously beside the south West Coast Path, at the bottom of someone’s garden. Lots of Britain’s coastline is being reclaimed by the sea, gradually washing away. Sidmouth could look very different in a few generations from now.
I hope you enjoyed Sidmouth even if it was grey and damp, I’ll take you again in summer.
I’m joining Jo for her Monday walk – if I’m in time, but if not this week maybe in a couple of weeks time!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant
There are very few opportunities for capturing anything vibrant in a Devon January, but I did have a day off today and a trip to Sidmouth. This pretty window attracted my attention, perhaps a dainty kind of vibrant.
On an autumn day out I spotted this on a building in Torbay.
These colourful windows were inside Castle Drogo, a National Trust property in Drewsteignton on the edge of Dartmoor.
I can’t miss flowers out when vibrant is the challenge can I? So here are two photos from Tavira, Portugal in September.
Bougainvillea,
and Lantana!
Are you joining the challenge this week? If you’re in the tropics or Australia, it should be easier to go and find something vibrant this weekend, have fun what ever you do!
Letters of Ali
I spotted these words on a wall on the east of the river Gilao, in Tavira, Portugal, and knew exactly where this particular arrangement of some of the alphabet came from. It’s a famous quote from Muhammad Ali, the former World Heavyweight boxing champion, who taunted his opponent Sonny Liston, in the lead up to their fight in 1964. These words look like they may have been on the wall since then.
Float like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
Ahhhh rumble young man, rumble
This is my second post for the Weekly Photo Challenge of Alphabet.
Six Word Saturday
I’d like to be somewhere warm.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet
Michelle created the weekly photo challenge this week, and I love it! This is what she says.
This week, let the alphabet be your inspiration: find a string of letters. Try a multi-photo gallery to collect images of single characters. Find some beautiful typography, or look for letters hidden in natural forms. I’m excited to see your ABCs!
I found these letters in Portugal, I can’t say I found the bar very tempting but it did make me smile. You can join the challenge here.
Another Quay Perspective
I wasn’t intending to post for Jo’s Monday Walk this week, the skies have been so grey that my photos have been depressing! But then yesterday I grabbed a dry hour, took the dogs out, and the light turned out to be quite pretty. I had a lift to Colleton Crescent, from where I could drop down to the quayside, but first I went along to see the view.
If you can see the crescent from the quay the reverse should be possible I thought.
Here’s the crescent, Georgian and built in 1800, it stands on a sandstone bluff over the Exe and was even painted by Turner in 1827. In 2013 one of these houses sold for nearly 1.5 million, so this is a crescent of privilege.
Time to head on downwards, I like the shapes in this photo, the right fork of water is the canal.
I like these little houses but they must get a lot of passers by.
I’d usually walk across the wooden bridge but there were lots of swans gathered on it, someone was feeding them and besides terriers and swans don’t get on!
But that’s okay, we walked along Commercial road. This area used to be clubland when I was in my teens, and I haven’t walked that way for years. I’m glad I did because of these two gates.
Back along a footpath to the river and over the blue bridge.
Where the footpath up river is flooded.
The terrace is at the top of this photo and I was picked up again so my short walk is over.
Weekly Photo Challenge Now
For this week’s challenge, take a moment to notice your now, and share a photo of it. Perhaps it is something imperfect, or mundane, or under-appreciated. Maybe it is a simple moment, or maybe it is something grand; we can’t wait to see!
I went for a walk under a grey sky yesterday and had just driven off towards home, when I spotted something that told me when now was. I though it was quite a good fit for Jen’s challenge at the Daily Post.
I case you can’t make it out, the clock commemorates Queen Victoria’s 60th Jubilee in 1897. Then I scrolled through my reader and came across this post from Bossymama, showing a much more sophisticated version, what a coincidence!
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