Photo Challenge

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On the way to the sea…

Posted in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge – this week’s theme ‘On the way’

It was my birthday at the weekend and as a special treat my husband took me to the seaside (look, what can I say, I may be getting on a bit, but inside I’m still five years old!).  Where we live it’s always a bit of a trek to get to the beach.  The journey takes a good couple of hours mostly across the windy, up and downy, country roads that transverse the spectacular North Yorkshire Moors, so we don’t do it very often.  In fact we’d never been to Robin Hood’s Bay before, but as you can see from the pictures it is really rather pretty (and quintessentially English), and we had a perfect day there eating ice creams, paddling in the icy sea, eating fish and chips,walking along the cliff, eating cake, lying about a bit more…..you can tell there was a bit of a theme going on!

Anyhoo… back to ‘on the way’. You can’t really drive down to the beach, as the roads are so narrow, so I took this snap of our first glimpse of the sea as we walked down the very steep hill (it seemed even steeper on the way up, especially after all that food!!).

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Although they don’t really fit the remit, I thought you might like to see a couple of other photos we took while we were messing about at the seaside!  I’m afraid I didn’t have my ‘proper’ camera with me, so the quality is slightly iffyer than usual!

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Broken :-(

Posted in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge – this week’s theme ‘Broken’

This is my Sooty eggcup.  It was an Easter present, complete with chocolate egg, that I received when I was seven or eight years old – that means that this little eggcup is now getting on for sixty. It got broken like this when we moved house some 22 years ago, and for some reason I didn’t have the heart to throw it away.

I don’t really know why I have kept it so long. It’s like a ghost of my childhood sitting in the kitchen drawer.  I can actually remember getting it, and being quite excited, after all there is nothing quite like a boiled egg and soldiers out of your own Sooty eggcup.  It’s also a reminder of how clumsy and lackadaisical I am –  originally I had the broken off piece and had intended to stick it back together, but of course that never happened and the piece has long since disappeared.

Perhaps, now I have taken photographic evidence of it I should throw the darn thing away. Lets face it,it’s junk and it takes up valuable space in my kitchen drawer.  Will I though??  I’m pretty sure you and I both know the answer….

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All tucked up

Posted in response to the Daily Post weekly photo challenge – this weeks theme ‘Enveloped’

This is a bud of an Allium.  Sorry, I can’t remember the name of this particular type of Allium, but its little individual flowers will soon burst out of this wrapper and in no time at all look like a brilliant blue firework.

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Dead or Alive?

Posted in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s theme – ‘Forces of Nature’

This gnarly, worm eaten,old apple tree in our meadow is all but dead, showing no new growth at the top at all.  But it’s still fighting for life, pushing out these blossoms towards the bottom. Wonder if it will produce any apples?

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Intricate

Posted in response to the Daily Post weekly photo challenge.  This week’s theme ‘Intricate‘

Well, I was spoilt for choice with this topic.  First of all I thought of some of the lovely patterns on the buildings in Morocco, then I thought about taking some pics of the beautiful tablecloth that my mother-in-law spent years embroidering for me, but then, I remembered China. The beautiful buildings there are all covered in gorgeous decoration one way or another, but I thought these roof details that we saw at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing just about take the biscuit as far as intricacy goes.  What do you think??

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Perfection in symmetry

Posted as part of the Daily Post photo challenge.  This weeks prompt – Symmetry

Yeah, I know, I’ve used this picture before, but frankly, I don’t really do symmetry, so had a struggle to find a suitable picture (and no, since you ask, I couldn’t think of anything to snap on this horrible cold and rainy day), but searching through my archive, the symmetry of this birds wings set in front of the most perfectly symmetrical and beautiful building in the world seemed to be the obvious choice.

The photograph was taken in the early morning, and the heavy morning mist made the Taj Mahal seem even more magical and ethereal. Seeing it then for the first time took my breath away.

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