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apologies to faithful reader(s)

my life has been here for the last little while
back soon though!

garden update

lost a few over winter, either to the bunnies, or natural causes. now need to get on get the weeds under control and prepare beds 3 & 4 for planting . lots of new ideas after our recent garden tour in the UK, moving the scale up a little(!) to incorporate the whole property out to the western boundary.

garden update

spring has sprung and the little maple in the courtyard has come back to life. hopefully it will survive the heat of summer. now to tidy up the paving.

avoiding the obvious 6

avoiding the obvious 5

avoiding the obvious 4

avoiding the obvious 3

avoiding the obvious 2

avoiding the obvious 1

these photos are largely as they came out of the camera. some have been cropped to tidy the edges, some [only a few] have been straightened. others [probably only too obvious] have been tweaked. no photoshop, just iphoto and quick.

they are a selection of pictures taken along the way during our recent jaunt through the english and scottish countryside. most of the body of photographs taken were either holiday snaps or recording our visits to some memorable gardens and sculpture parks [some more of that later]

most of these photos were taken with the M8. getting used to single focal length [~38mm] and manual focus required some relearning. the camera lives up to its reputation, i think, and i am looking forward to many more outings. being on holiday 'en famille' means that it is not always easy to get the space and time to simply find the subject, so most of these images are a spontaneous take on a glancing visual moment.

they're coming, they're coming!!

but in the meantime..........

vlux

here we go, here we go, here we go

our house, is very very very old house

with fruit trees in the yard

no kitchen or no bath

to live in would be hard

a new one's on the card[s]

time lapse time

bit of late night snapping-keeps me off the streets!

eos 5d mk II

M8

some new M8 pics

bleak but cosy

the weather is pretty grim, but penny is on the job!

favourite buildings 9

summer pavilion at the AA.  I met elle in last year's pavilion.

Fire

fire time at black rock road.

very spectacular

might arrange a bonfire party next year!