Posted on December 27, 2020
A few miles outside the town of Beverley, in Yorkshire, is this entrance to an old house standing in its own grounds.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fences & Gates
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Fences, Gates
Posted on November 20, 2020
Take a pew? Somebody’s taken all of them from this church in Confolens and replaced them with chairs.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Seating
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Chairs, Church, Confolens, Seating
Posted on November 13, 2020
You can’t help seeing a smiley face on this old RAF training aircraft at the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything that flies
Category: Black & White Tagged: Aeroplanes, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Yorkshire Air Museum
Posted on November 7, 2020
‘Musical’ is the theme for Week 45 of the Smartphone Challenge, so here is a detail from the electric keyboard that our grandsons use when they are staying with us:

As it happens, the theme for Cee’s Black & White Challenge this week is ‘Music’, so this post will apply for that too.
Who says men can’t multi-task?
52WeekSmartphoneChallenge; 45 Musical
Posted on October 30, 2020
This plucky little spider has spun the complex pattern of its web in the curl of a new shoot of wisteria.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Patterns in Nature
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Patterns, spider, Spiders' Webs, Wisteria
Posted on October 23, 2020
As everyone knows, snails are a species of mOllUsc:

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: must contain ‘O’ and ‘U’
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, molluscs, snail shells, Snails
Posted on October 16, 2020
Our humble abode (aka ‘Brokedown Palace’).

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Outside Home
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Brokedown Palace, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Exterior, France, Home, Rural
Posted on October 9, 2020
For her Black & White Challenge this week, Cee is asking for an interior view of our homes.
Well, this is our ‘salon’ – sitting-room, lounge, parlour, call it what you will. It’s a quiet, restful room and we like it very much.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Home Interiors
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Interiors, Peaceful, Salon
Posted on October 3, 2020
Some Limousin cattle doing what comes naturally.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Farm Animals
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cattle, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Farm Animals, Frisky, Rural
Posted on September 25, 2020
This cast metal sculpture sits atop a fountain just opposite the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall) in the centre of the town of Bellac. We’re suffering from severe drought conditions around here at the moment, so the water has been turned off.
The small sign on the plinth says that the water is recycled and is not suitable for drinking.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fountains
Category: Black & White Tagged: Bellac, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, fountain, Sculpture, statue