Rainbow Wool
Posted on April 8, 2021
It’s macro/close-up week for Cee’s Midweek Challenge.
Madame has been knitting recently, using some multi-coloured wool.
A Matter Of Scale
Posted on April 7, 2021
Cee’s theme for the Fun Foto Challenge this week is the size comparison of objects.
From Madame’s extensive collection of elephants:
Inevitably, this challenge reminded me of some classic Father Ted (for the uninitiated, one of the finest UK sitcoms of the past forty years)
BBQ Time
Posted on April 2, 2021
For her Black & White Challenge this week, Cee is looking for something that would be found on a picnic table or in a park.
This – sitting on our picnic table – is the rather nifty spatula from our set of barbecue tools.
The Suncatcher
Posted on April 1, 2021
Back last summer, when such things were possible, Madame and lovely daughter went to a stained glass workshop together. While they were there they each made a suncatcher, which sits very well in a sunny garden.
Roses In Decline
Posted on March 31, 2021
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Madame’s very lovely Mothers’ Day bouquet, two weeks on.
(An experiment with the HDR function of my new phone camera app).
Mosaic
Posted on March 26, 2021
This mosaic floor is just a small part of the rich decorations of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Triangles, Diamonds or Squares
Chicken Run
Posted on March 25, 2021
Cee’s CMMC Challenge this week is looking for a subject that contains either ‘Ch’ or ‘ck’ in the title.
The obvious answer, ticking both boxes, is ‘chicken’, so here’s a photograph taken at the annual Christmas Fair in the nearby village of Blond. The USP of this particular event is – or was, at any rate before Covid-19 (and a prior outbreak of Avian ‘Flu) the racing chickens.
Actually, the whole event is called the ‘Foire Aux Chapons’ – the Capon Fair. Capons are sterilised male chickens; they tend to be larger (and probably grumpier) than ordinary ones and a group of them is raced, if that’s the word (‘ushered’ is probably more like it), down the main street, amid scenes of overwhelming excitement. It’s like nothing so much as curling, but with poultry.
This is the aftermath of the race, as the runners and riders, so to speak, are ushered into their coop.
An Owl In The Hand..
Posted on March 24, 2021
An owl perches on a gauntlet at a birds of prey display in St-Germain de Confolens.
Aerobatics
Posted on March 19, 2021
A French Air Force display ‘plane goes through its paces at the ‘Estevol’ air show.
Sunday Morning At The Station
Posted on March 18, 2021
The railway station at Beverley, in East Yorkshire, on a tranquil Sunday morning.
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