Weekly Photo Challenge: Dense
Posted on March 30, 2017
A densely-packed crowd of tourists shuffle past the Doge’s Palace in Venice. Claustrophobes need not apply.

Tuesdays of Texture: Celtic Cross
Posted on March 29, 2017
This Celtic cross was spotted in a display of ornaments in a garden centre. It’s pre-cast rather than carved, obviously, but nonetheless the texture is interesting.

A contribution to Tuesdays of Texture, hosted by Narami at De Monte Y Mar.
H is for Horse
Posted on March 24, 2017
This striking white horse is one of a group of about half a dozen or so that belongs to one of our neighbours.

Thursday Doors: Confolens (finale)
Posted on March 23, 2017
This is the fourth and final instalment of doors from the French town of Confolens. As last week’s post, which concentrated on gates, ended with a public building (the Hôtel de Ville), here are a couple of others to start us off, beginning with the old church:

while this grand building at the end of the new(er) bridge across the Vienne river, is now an educational establishment:

The carving above the lower left window indicates that this building was put up in 1885, although the door looks more like Art Deco to me:

I was just pleased with the way the light turned out on these doors up in the old town:

And finally, saving the worst (which is to say best) ’til last, is this fine example of a door designed by a committee:

Thursday Doors 23 March 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: It IS Easy Being Green
Posted on March 22, 2017
A sunny autumn day in Inverleith Park, Edinburgh. The leaves are beginning to turn, but green still predominates.

Tuesdays of Texture: Wheelhub
Posted on March 22, 2017
This well-weathered cartwheel was spotted in the grounds of a hotel in the wine country of New South Wales:

Tuesdays of Texture
F is for F7777473
Posted on March 18, 2017
This is the serial number of the old Singer sewing machine that we acquired last year. It’s possible to look up these numbers online, and we discovered that this particular machine was made in Clydebank, Scotland, sometime between January and June 1917, so it is now an authentic antique.

Thursday Doors: Confolens gates
Posted on March 16, 2017
To leaven the weekly diet of doors, here are a few of the interesting gates that the Charente town of Confolens has to offer, in ascending order of impressiveness.
A symphony in green:

My personal favourite – a study in symmetry:

This grand looking edifice is just behind the church:

And here are the gates of the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall). It was just after taking this photograph that my doorscursion was cut short by an unexpected collision with the pavement outside the Market Hall, in the same square.

Thursday Doors 16 March 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: Atop
Posted on March 15, 2017
Take a ride in the glass lift that’s now inside the bell-tower of the church and you will find yourself atop the medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, with matchless views over the tops of the old buildings:

Macro Moments: Week 34 – Bobbin Winder
Posted on March 15, 2017
This week, another close-up of part of the mechanism of our vintage Singer sewing machine. This is a detail of the bobbin winder. It looks to be in pretty good shape for something that’s exactly a hundred years old this year.

Macro Moments Week 34




