These are the berries of the European Spindle or Euonymus europaeus more commonly called the Spindleberry, or at least that's what I've always called it. The name comes from the fact that its dense pale wood is easily worked and was once used for making spindles and...
Tex Box 2
musical hotel
Just around the corner from my house the famous composer- Camille Saint-Saëns stopped for several weeks, when it was a hotel, its the one with the open window. I'd been meaning to take a decent picture of this corner for ages, but over bright sunlight, dark shadows...
Grunge Bluebell
It's midwinter here in New Zealand so this one is from last spring -I'm counting the days (or maybe months) till they're in flower again, in fact I'm looking forward to having any flowers in the garden. There are some weeds still flowering (must be why weeds are so...
Curious Cows
This is part of the large herd of cows from the dairy farm across the road from our country hut. In that area there are almost more cows than sheep now, something that makes me sad as I much prefer the traditional sheep farm than intensive dairy herds. Cows however...
dune daisies
Its nice when we can show an image that has really been brought to life with textures! Taken on our local beach sand dunes with a hazy late afternoon sun. I wanted to bring the fresh tones out. The fact that the sun was weak helped stop blow-outs and of course the...
the waves
We already spoke about three objects being better than two in an image, so I'm pleased to be able to put this maxim to use once again. Here two buoys wouldn't work quite as well as the three buoys! Overall we counted nine buoys. This stormy sea picture was great fun...
Butterflies
Last week when the sun finally came out after several days of rain I paid a visit to my favourite plant at the local botanic gardens, as I've mentioned before the plant has been pruned more heavily this year so I have to stretch to find any of these dried beauties to...
windowsill jug
This small, high situated window is at the side of my fireplace in my little old french corner house. I'm lucky having these side windows, as its a great source of fresh cross air in the hot summers. The view is a dud though, as it just points towards next doors green...
Pastel Blues
The teapot in this photo is my newest acquisition, bought from a local charity shop especially for photographic purposes -always a good excuse 🙂 I'd been taking photos of it by itself but then I spied my hydrangeas and voila! Processing for a change was relatively...
A new dawn !
I'm back after two weeks with only a sometime Iphone connection, and goodness, it was like the dark ages! Many thanks to Jill who has been a star!:-) One of the byproducts of being almost web free was more time, and I tried to be productive, a couple of days, even...