Food

Posted on December 15, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dessert, Food, Forgotten, Internet space, Lack of me, Life, Memory, Photograph, SweetLeave a comment

I took this photo a few days ago and have no idea where it was at and who I was with! How can I have forgotten? I honestly don’t remember and you take a picture because the food is so nice. I don’t even remember what flavour it was!

It’s quite presentable, and I’m sure it was tasty, but after the last few days of problems and activity the whole thing has completely gone….

You know, the whole Internet is full of images of food. I guess you could save a lot of wasted space by not posting pictures of it!

Part done…

Posted on June 14, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged a birthday treat, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging basket, Photograph, Plants, pots, Weeds4 Comments

My birthday treat, hanging baskets up, some plants on the wall. I still need to empty some pots that have weeds in and do the rest of the wall and on the ground. Sometimes I will place pots on top of other pots that have soil in them so they get more light and the roots can grow down into the lower pot. Possible further plants I want are trailing lobelia, fushias, pelargoniums, nemesia, montbrecia, busy lizzies, sweet peas and oriental poppies.

I have a hosta in flower, lilies that are away from where the cats can go (it’s pollen is poisonous to them), a hydrangea, Welsh poppies. I also have an apple tree that my hubby put in that I’m trying to trail horizontally against the fence.

My main concern is the garden is very shaded now as my neighbour has put an 8 foot fence in. I’m hoping the shelter it offers will create a microclimate and allow the plants to last well into the autumn.

I googlied my self portrait!

Posted on May 21, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Fine Art, Fun, googly eye, Painting, Photograph, self portrait, Silly2 Comments

Today I carried on with my self portrait. But I’d found a googly eye on my table so. I added it to the painting and laughed!

Cataract

Posted on April 29, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blurred, Colours, Distorted, Eyes, Fed up, Life, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Sad, ViewLeave a comment

Abstract eye

Blur like romantic film

Smeared out colours

View impeded

Glare at night

Sunshine glows

Tones changed

Eyes dimmed

Distorted life

Fed up.

Auroras again?

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 4am, Auroras?, Clouds, Green, Life, long exposure, Night, Nighttime, PhotographLeave a comment

I could see an odd colour in the sky last night at about 4am , just vague because it was cloudy. So I took a long exposure (60 second) shot.

I posted this on Threads and someone then told me it’s not possible to photograph an aurora through cloud? But I don’t know how thin or dense the cloud was and also my camera shake makes everything look extra blurry.

If this isn’t an aurora, (maybe reflected through gaps in cloud), what has caused this?

Greyhound

Posted on February 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Calendar, court, Dog, Greyhound, Home, Life, Memory, Penkhull, Photograph, Public houseLeave a comment

Local public house, the Greyhound pub in Penkhull. This was another of the photos that I got into this year’s calendar. It’s another thing that is helping raise money for the village hall that was flooded a few months ago when an old water tank in the roof burst. Luckily the place was cleaned up and dried out quite quickly.

The pub was a local court for Penkhull manor a few centuries ago, and though you cannot see it here, it appears to be tudor in origin though I don’t know for certain.

I was so pleased to hear that I had got 3 photos in the calendar. If there is another competition this year I will try again.

Photographs, Esther Chiltons weekly prompt.

Posted on January 30, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Crying, Esther Chiltons weekly prompt, Happy, Hubby, Life, Memory, Photograph, smilingLeave a comment

I wrote this about her prompt.

My precious photos are of and with my hubby. Sometimes I sit and cry, sometimes I laugh at silly memories. Photographs captured that moment when we walked across a stream. When we returned hours later the tide had come in and the stream was a deep salt water channel. I lost my bike pump into the water and when I got it out to use again it had gone rusty. Photos can be like that. They can fade. And memory fades too, so photos make it easier not to forget.

2025 calendar

Posted on January 24, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged 2025, Calendar, Flowers, Hall, Months, Penkhull, Photograph, Pictures, Time, Village6 Comments

One of my photos that I got in a local calendar for this year. There was a photographic competition in the summer. People were asked to submit pictures of our local village of Penkhull for it to raise funds for the village hall.

In the end three of my pictures were chosen, that’s a quarter of the twelve monthly images! There was also a thirteenth one that was chosen for the front of the calendar. I’m so proud to have had my work included for 2025.

Ferny

Posted on December 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 4 versions, Design, Ferns, Green, Hedge, incollage app, Photograph, symmetricalLeave a comment

Another of a series of symmetrical patterns that I like to create. I usually start with a pattern or shape in one corner of an image. I then duplicate it 4 times and rotate each image 90° to the next. Each time I do this I rotate each picture 4 times so that you get a different pattern. I then choose a favourite to publish.

Sunset tonight

Posted on December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bright, Clouds, Colours, Orange, Photograph, Silhouette, Sky, Sunset, View, YellowLeave a comment

I saw that the sunset was developing from my side of the hill, but we are blocked from sunsets by that hill. So I jumped in the car and took some photos on the other side. This was one of the best, penkhull, England. 14.12.24. I think one cloud looks like a shark!

Mallaband-Brown

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