Those sorts of dreams seem a world away, as I guess they are really. This is the actual white piano that John Lennon used when he wrote Imagine. It sits in the Beatles museum in Liverpool. I am not much of a city person, but found Liverpool to be OK, maybe because we were focused on what we wanted to see rather than just wandering through a concrete jungle. I may, or may not, find some other Liverpool images.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! I think this one came off its hinges a while ago. Is there a woodworking equivalent of “a good vet would get it on its feet again”?
Sometimes the ordinary isn’t that ordinary at all.
Fingers crossed this looks ok on WordPress. I was looking through the photos I took when at Bempton Cliffs with the gannets and afterwards at Flamborough, when I saw three that made no sense. Then I realised they were taken in order to create a panorama, and I had never processed it. Idiot. Put together you can see the limestone cliffs, and in the distance a lighthouse. If looking on a phone it is pobably best to click to get a bigger version and then turn the phone on its side. But hey, you know best.
I hope you are impressed that I can be bilingual? Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire coast is home to thousands of gannets. I would say you can’t move for them, but as they spend most of their time on the seaward side of a very tall steep cliff that is highly unlikely. Suffice to say, you can’t miss them. This is the classic pose of a mating pair making it known they are interested. Ornithology lesson over.
I have a version of this sorry-looking retired fishing boat in my gallery, but in black and white. Having reviewed it again (the weather is shocking so I have to do something…) I think that was a mistake. The colour actually adds something to the flaking paintwork I think. The image is from North Landing at Flamborough on the Yorkshire coast.
Melbourne is well known for its street art, and there is a network of alleys covered in murals. As you can tell from the little guy in the yellow box, tourists and visitors are envouraged to photograph the art. You couldn’t resist this chilled group of farmyard friends, though the violin did confuse me…
I realise there is an alternative crop, but that would have put the couple in the centre, and I like the steps leading nowhere. So they stay. This was taken in a village in Malta where tall buildings and narrow alleyways provided a welcome shade from the sun. The couple provided a happy stroke of luck.
Some people are not a fan, and just tagging on walls is stupid, but I really like some good wall art, or street art – however you term it. I found this cat outside a resaurant in Menorca, just minding his business. Maybe it was a marketing ploy to get potential customers to stop outside the restaurant?
As I have mentioned before, I struggle with flower photos, but every now and then I get something that I feel is ok. Seems a bit early, or I am losing track of the year, but the poppies are back. It is pouring down with rain and hailstones today, so I have not been out, but this is one from last year.
Holme Pierrepont in Nottingham has the National Water Sports Centre, and used to be the training home for elite canoe and kayak athletes. That discipline was moved nearer London, but the rowing is still there. Even so, there is an excellent white water course, and it is still used by elite paddlers for practice. Some stay upright, but this paddler spent her time practicing somersaults in a stopper.