01-JAN-2013
Promise
While I have been struggling with floods and associated problems Nature has been quietly working away, bringing
forth new life. Very soon these green shoots will be delicate little Snowdrops. They will flower through the winter to remind
us that Spring is on the way.
02-JAN-2013
Entangled
The love of Orchids has somehow grown on me over the years and now I have a small collection. It is a joy to watch the stem emerge where soon the blooms will appear. The first couple I bought, in flower, have never flowered again but I carefully feed and water them and live in hope. Others have flowered time and time again... it's a mystery to me but I do enjoy them.
I have heard them called "alien" "creepy" "prehistoric" I'll go for the fact that they may be an acquired taste.
03-JAN-2013
Left behind
I wonder if the owner wonders where it is?
04-JAN-2013
Me
At the start of the year I needed to decide if the Friday SP would continue. It's not an easy thing to do every week but I enjoy the challenge so we'll see how 2013 goes.
05-JAN-2013
On the swing
I bought 6 hens and, as you would expect, they all have different personalities. Frosty, on the swing is rarely doing whatever the other hens are doing. About the only things she has in common with them are her feathers and the fact that she lays an egg every day. She certainly likes the swing in the afternoon sunshine even if it is the wrong way up!
06-JAN-2013
Skeletal
Hydrangeas give such good value. The flowers are stunning whatever the type, mophead, lacecap, they are all so photogenic. It doesn't end when the flowers eventually lose their colour. They turn brown and then skeletal and at every stage they can look good in front of a lens. This one started life a deep maroon/red. Quite unusual for a hydrangea I think. Let's hope it does well next year. We have certainly had enough rain for it to thrive!
07-JAN-2013
Bodies everywhere
If you're an exif data checker you will know that these settings are way off
my normal range... hardly knew that they existed, but I was playing around with this rusty old lock full of dead spiders and this was the result. It really has been a case of... I wonder what I get if I turn this to...
I was supposed to be cleaning up the lock, not sure why but in any case it's much too good a photo subject to be cleaned :)
08-JAN-2013
Punch
Whilst wandering round Hatherleigh Market today I came across this box of old Punch magazines. I would love to have bought a couple but having spent my last bean on a chest of drawers I hadn't even got the required 50p. I hope that they'll be there next week. The market was low on stallholders, I expect they're having a well earned rest after the busy Christmas period.
If you want to know where all my money went have a look here:
http://anncourtney.com/?p=3005
09-JAN-2013
Dartmoor looking moody
This was one of those, quick pull up in a gateway and get a shot or two moments. The clouds were moving quite quickly and even the fields and hedges looked grey so the B & W processing was almost unnecessary. If I'd been able to stay where I was I'd have seen some sun chase the clouds off, but only for a few moments. That's the challenge with landscape photography, either chasing or waiting for the light.
10-JAN-2013
Tulip
Another drizzly day has brought on a few aches and pains and I didn't want to venture out so I moved my vase of tulips into a window and this is the result. They are at the wilting and bendy stage so close in was I think, a good choice. Tomorrow they will only be a heap of petals on the sill and the stems left in the vase.
11-JAN-2013
Petals & Me
After yesterday and my comment about nearly over, bendy tulips I was asked for petals. Sorry folks, it's Friday so you have to have me - with a few petals thrown in ;)
Have a great weekend one and all.
12-JAN-2013
Silver
All the disruption caused by the flooding has resulted in a great move to redecorate and tidy up the house. It started with the rooms affected by the water but has spread to the whole of the ground floor. Painting, sealing floors, sorting out "stuff" with heaps to go to a charity shop and heaps more to be sold, hopefully, on ebay. I shan't recognise the place! Today I emptied a dresser drawer and found a selection of spoons and forks, all badly tarnished but now they are all bright and shining... and back in the drawer! ;)