We returned to the Royal Flora exhibition a couple of days later, this time late afternoon so that we could see the rest of the exhibition and also to see the garden of illumination when it was illuminated at night. sculpted figures in the gardens inside the cacti house these graceful dancers greeted visitors [...]
the options for the challenge for 16-18 March were: 1. any piece of photo art you wish to ‘hang’ 2. a piece of photo art with some element in it that is hidden in plain sight 3. a piece of photo art highlighting the color green … it will soon be St. Patrick’s Day after [...]
The challenge for Texture Tuesday 25 October was to use any image we liked and to incorporate two of Kim’s textures. Here are two versions of my final photo, one with text and one without. I used two of my photos superimposed on each other and added Kim’s pumpkin grunge and simple things textures.
This summer we spent two separate weeks cat-sitting for friends of ours in Germany. They live in a converted railway station building. with wonderful views across the Moselle valley vineyards in their garden are silver birch trees with the old bark peeling off to reveal the beautiful new bark underneath red poppies late afternoon sun [...]
On the one sunny day we had while we were in Bristol we decided to drive to Malmesbury in Wiltshire to visit Abbey House Gardens. This is the home of the “Naked Gardeners” and they regularly hold “clothes optional days” which are the best attended of all! Our visit did not coincide with one of [...]
It was sunny again this afternoon so I went for a walk, firstly in Yalikavak where I found this colourful garden. Then I drove up into the hills to the abandoned village of Sandima which provided lots of great shots with masses of flowers. an old water cistern On my way back I spotted an [...]
A couple of days before Christmas we went to Bath for the day to do some last-minute Christmas shopping and to go to that most British of theatrical offerings, the pantomime – Aladdin – in the recently and beautifully refurbished Theatre Royal in Bath. We started off by visiting Mr B’s, an independent bookseller and [...]
This weekend, with the sun still shining albeit on an occasional basis now as we head into Autumn, we drove up to the north east of Luxembourg to a tiny village called Stolzembourg situated next to the river which forms a natural boundary between Luxembourg and Germany. The village has a museum of copper mining [...]
On our last day we visited the Royal Palace, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Bangkok’s royal palace, and the National Museum. The architecture is very similar to that of Thailand – Cambodia and Thailand were part of the same country in days gone by so that is perhaps not surprising. However, the [...]
Our next excursion, two weeks consecutively in fact because we were so taken with the place, took us to the abandoned Greek village of Sandima. Only two houses are occupied now. One by Osman, in his eighties and in search of someone to be wife number 3 (not all at once!) and Nuris who owns [...]
