46/365 Out and about in Devizes

The paeony is in my garden, the only decent background for it was the sky, so I took this lying down on the garden path, I'm not really sure what the builders would have thought if they saw me.



The swan was asleep by the side of the Crammer. As I stopped to take the photo lots of ducks came quacking towards me expecting food, and woke the swan up, sorry swan.




This pyramid was donated to the town, I forgot to write down the name of the donator, but it has three sides, showing three different aspects of the town, this side shows the Caen Hill locks.




This house is in the middle of Devizes, I think its a private house, as there are no signs to indicate otherwise. I love the architecture of it. There are so many interesting and unusual houses in town that none of them looks out of place.




Junko, my daughter-in-law, is having a scan later today, so by this evening I shall know if my new grandchild is to be a boy or a girl. Watch this space.

45/365 Its all happening

Quite enough excitement for one day

44/365 Playing with photoshop elements

I've just been having a little play around with photoshop elements, the software that OU have provided with the course.
Must admit to never having tried anything like this before, but quite pleased with the results. The third shot looks a bit Monet-ish to me.

43/365 View from my desk

I've seen some really lovely blogs recently where people have taken me on a personal tour of their gardens, which I've really enjoyed - thankyou, you know who you are.
I'd love to do the same, but at the moment, what with having been here less than 2 years and currently having builders in to work on the outbuilding, the back garden is very much a "work in progress" with little to show apart from the small vegetable plot blogged about here, and odd single flowers which have featured earlier in this blog. However, as I sit at my desk, which is temporarily in the front room, I can see the front garden and beyond to the scots pines across the green.



Not much colour out there at the moment, as the border has mostly crocosmia and michaelmas daisies (not flowering yet) in front of a row of heavily pollarded lilacs (finished flowering), but it does provide a nice restful green screen between the house and the road. Enjoy for now and I'll try to remember to post this scene again in a month or so when the crocosmia are in bloom.

42/365 Bits and pieces

No particular theme to today's blog, just a few bits and pieces, its been that sort of a day.

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I mentioned sometime back that the leek seeds I had sown were old and didn't germinate, so yesterday I bought a pot of leek seedlings in the market, and today I've put them out in the veg plot, near to the beetroot plants which are thriving.



Here is dear old Adrian, who (except at this precise moment) certainly looks a lot happier now that he's fronting ITVs coverage of the World Cup than he used to sitting next to Christine Bleakley in the One Show




Now you can probably guess what I'll be doing this afternoon.

41/365 Spot the difference

Although, to be fair to them, they have also done a lot of measuring, materials ordering, talking and tea and coffee drinking. All the materials required are to be delivered on Monday, so thats when we'll see them next.
In my excitement, I'm ashamed to admit that the strawberries were eaten before I remembered to snap them.
One of my assignments for next week is "composing images in the frame to alter their meaning" so here is one of my entries

40/365 Strawberries

Yesterday I spotted two almost ripe strawberries, so I thought just leave them for another 24 hours and then pick them. Wrong!! Went out to pick them this morning and they are gone. The moral of the story is keep your strawberries covered in netting.
There were another two I'm hoping will be ripe tomorrow, which I have picked and brought indoors so that Rog and I can have one each. Tomorrow when they are ripe I'll take a photo.
So, today, instead of ripe strawberries we have a picture of another paeony



an oilspill (not quite as disastrous as the one in the Gulf of Mexico)



and a reflection