What’s it like up there?
The same as it is down there,
Just a better view.
One year my children bought me a wildlife experience, with special access to the wildlife park at Woburn. A really good day getting closer than normal to some of the animals. Being high up is not something I am used to, but I can imagine tall people get really fed up with people asking about the weather…
A tired soldier sits
Watching the tide rolling in,
Trying to forget.
This sculpture sits on the North Bay at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. It is called “Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers”. Freddie Gilroy was a soldier in WW2, who participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The piece was made partly as a tribute to him, but also as a wider war and Holocaust memorial. For once the haiku genuinely has relevance.
Ancient defences
Defeated by erosion.
Broken in the sand
Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire is almost uniquely home to several pill boxes. Some are still on the cliff, some crashed and broken on the sandy beach, and a couple precariously balanced waiting for the last few feet of cliff erosion to send them crashing down. They were built as potential sea defences in WW2, to protect the coast from potential invaders.
Follow the leader
Blindly hoping not to crash.
Just a little damp?
I have missed a few days with the blog as I drove on the wrong side of the road to get to the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, in Belgium. Traffic was a nightmare in Belgium, and the Belgian drivers even worse than I remember. But we got there in one piece, plus a possible speeding fine and a scrape on the rear wing trying to get through a narrow door to the hotel parking.
As you may have guessed, as well as the F1 there were Porsche, F2, and F3 races. Altogether an enjoyable weekend, despite the aforementioned mishaps and a 4 hour wait at the tunnel in France. C’est la vie!
No place for colour.
The contrast of white on black.
Swan taking a nap.
If ever there was a subject that needed monochrome, this is it. The swan was in front of a dark piece of lakeside woodland, which made it really stand out.
The moon shining bright,
Looming beyond the pulpit.
Man-made creation.
This installation has travelled the world, but I saw it in Nottinghamshore. The moon measures seven metres in diameter, and was created from NASA imagery.The creator is Luke Jerram.
Alone in the woods
As the sun burns through the mist.
Waiting for the light.
Note to self. Stop being so lazy, and get up in the morning. Not in the summer of course, that is ridiculous unless you are camping out. But autumn/winter when sunrise is at a reasonable time should be doable. I will do it.
Bright lights of Light Night,
Blue clouds shroud the Council House
As crowds crowd the square.
Light Night is an annual event in Nottingham that has been going on for a few years. There are displays all over the city centre, including a massive projection on to the Council House in Market Square.
Love is in the air
Carved in the trunk of a tree.
Venus and love hearts.
Time for a bit of photo-geekery. This image was taken with totally incorrect settings. ISO 6400 and 1/1600th of a second. What the actual f? I must have been dreaming, and should have checked. However, what it does show is how mistakes can be rescued. Even underexposed by three and a half stops the noise was able to be fixed.
Sorry for the geekery, but I can’t give you information on the image itself because I don’t remember where it was… 🙂
The eyes say it all.
Not my fault, I’m innocent.
How could you resist?
We thought we were temporarily fostering a puppy. Unfortunately this ‘pup’ was huge and boisterous. Lovely as he was, we were unable to cope and give him what he needed, so we only had him a week.
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