Where are We?

“Siri, give me an image that shows where we are without saying where we are”.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things people visit

Board Games

I have to say that I’m not a great fan of board (bored?) games: probably something to do with the sinking of my boredom threshold as I get older. Nonetheless, we have a decent selection in a cupboard.

For the young people, you understand.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Play with

Sunflowers

Like arable farmers everywhere, the locals practice crop rotation. A couple of years ago our friend Jean-Claude gave over one of his fields to cultivating sunflowers.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Grow

Duck Feathers

I took this photograph at Al Ain Zoo, in the United Arab Emirates. A bog-standard common duck may seem out of place surrounded by all manner of exotic fauna, but its feathers are nothing to be ashamed of.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers

Wide-eyed and four-legged

This Shetland pony, who used to live with a few companions in a field a couple of hundred yards from our house, had a very docile temperament, although you’d never guess from this manic, wide-eyed stare.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Eyes

Ducking for Apples

Our twin grandsons have probably outgrown the idea of ducking for apples on Halloween, but they used to love it.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Apple red

The courtyard

The warm glow of the sodium lights gives a caramel tone to this view of the courtyard of a hotel in the centre of Toulouse.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Caramel colour

Weathered

About a mile from our placee is a slowly rotting old house, irretrievably derelict. The roof has now collapsed, but most of the window frames are still just about intact.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Weathered Wood

The Liver Bird Reigns Supreme

This cloud formation over our house was too interesting to ignore…

…especially as it reminded me of the iconic Liver Bird, the symbol of Liverpool, the finest city on earth:

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Clouds

The Roman Column

There’s plenty of texture in this artfully lit section of a column dating from Roman times, on display in the Archaeological Museum in Toulouse.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Texture