Posted in inspiration, photos on Dec 31st, 2008
One of my resolutions for 2009 is to get outside every single day. Even if it’s freezing cold, like it is today, or tipping it down with rain, I want to try and get outdoors.
A good incentive is to take my camera with me, and look for tiny little things that I might not otherwise [...]
I walked around the lake this morning, and bumped into the pair of Eyptian Geese. They were sitting on the railings around the duck-feeding platform, so I sneaked up on them with the camera.
I managed to take about twenty pictures before Mr Egyptian Goose decided that I was very annoying, and honked to let me [...]
These were both taken on my walk back from the local Post Office this morning.
I had my little camera (a Pentax Optio A30) on its maximum zoom capacity, so I was able to take both of these from a distance, while I was being eyed suspiciously from the top of a tree!
I’ve been using this [...]
I didn’t go foraging for hazelnuts or sloes this year. There didn’t seem to be any sloes growing at all (no sloe gin!), and by the time Sarah had gone to look for hazelnuts, the squirrels had eaten them all.
Except for this one, apparently, which I found on the edge of my lawn this morning.
One [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Oct 29th, 2008
Snow! In October!
Usual for many parts of the world, I’m sure, but quite unusual in my little corner.
I spent an hour first thing this morning walking around with the camera, trying to catch the atmosphere of such a crisp, cold, icy morning in the middle of what ought to be Autumn.
I walked through the woods, [...]
Paul and I went for a little walk in the field closest to our house, so that Paul could take some photographs of me wearing the skirt that I drafted and made today.
Just as we were going home again, he pointed out this little white egg.
This afternoon, after we’d become bored with scraping the dirt off the house, Paul and I went for a walk in The Wilderness. It’s part of the University campus, and somewhere I spent quite a lot of time when I was a student.
Paul took photographs, and I talked to geese. :)
It’s almost spring!
It was very cheering to pass this little splash of colour on a cold, grey morning.
