A Simple Holiday

It’s summer – well, here in Europe it is anyway – and our thoughts turn to holidays. So when Philo of Philosophy through Photography fame threw down the challenge to celebrate Simplicity for Lens-Artists Challenge #257, I thought I’d leaf through my holiday albums and see what I could find.

Let’s go to the beach first, in Alnmouth Northumberland.

And then back to Yorkshire, to Wharfedale, where water coursing down the limestone slopes has formed this dramatically undulating landscape.

Let’s stay in Yorkshire, for harvest time at Sutton Bank.

Still, we can’t stay in England forever. Let’s catch a ferry across the North Sea.

We’ll nip across to Valencia, to l’Albufera: send a postcard as the header photo, before going south to Cádiz …

 … and all the way over to Greece …

… before coming back to England ..

…where poppies blow …

… and the fog descends…

Holiday well and truly over, I think.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

53 thoughts on “A Simple Holiday”

  2. Those Greek ‘weeds’ are very striking, Margaret. What I meant to say is that I love the colour and composition. Simple isn’t a simple concept, is it? I love the poppies and the fog too, and that wonderful Header. A while since we rolled down Sutton Bank. Have a lovely weekend!

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    1. Oooh, I hope you didn’t roll down Sutton Bank, Jo. Nasty! Lovely weekend? Well, we had one planned, but very poor weather with rain and high winds is doing its best to be a spoilsport. You have one, so we don’t have to.

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      1. My daughter was going on a glamping event, Margaret, but a rolled ankle and Plantar Faschieitis in the other foot put paid to that. The best she can say is that it would have been muddy and unpleasant with current weather. The patient is recovering…

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      2. Poor thing. But at least she can comfort herself with knowing that she has been saved from a muddy glamping experience, Hope she’s on the mend soon.

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  3. Such a striking set of photographs. Thank you for my European tour! Lovely green undulating hills are a compensation for all that rain, although better that than what the poor southern Europeans are currently experiencing.

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  5. Ah, a good selection…2, 5 and 7 my favourites Yorkshire landscape – fab, a line of lamps, and you can’t beat a good poppy!

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  7. What a lovely collection, you have, Margaret!
    A visual treat!
    I love all the images.
    I enjoyed your narration as our guide, along with these images.
    No doubt, one can derive a message from each image.
    Sand impressions teach us the fleeting beauty of life.
    Amazing silhouette clicks of lamp posts and flowering plants!
    The POV of the poppies is captivating!
    Your last click of a lonely tree whispering tales of resilience, embracing stillness, waiting for the veil of fog to clear in order to experience clarity.
    Thank you so much, for joining us and sharing these marvelous clicks.

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  11. A great tour of some simple but beautiful scenes! I especially love the Wharfedale image – the shapes and the greenness are lovely! I’m wondering how it would look in B&W too? Not better, probably, but as good maybe and different? I love the grasses in Greece and lampposts in Cadiz too!

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    1. Maybe I’ll have a fiddle with some of the Wharfedale images – I have quite a lot and see what I think about B/W. I quite liked those southern Europe ones too – thanks.

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  19. Looks like a wonderful holiday Margaret. Your images are beautiful. I loved the foggy finish as well as the undualating field and of course the poppies. Yes, I agree with you about not complaining. We are used to hot summers here in the southern US but fortunately it’s nowhere near the temps they’re having in the central and western US, and now terrible flooding in the northeast. What in the world have we done to our poor planet?!

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    1. What indeed? Too many people in parts of the US and Europe are having intolerable heat, and it doesn’t look like a one off. The future looks grim for our grandchildren. Yes, the fog brought welcome relief!

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  20. Gorgeous photos! I still don’t see your posts in my reader. Have you asked the infamous “happiness engineers” for help? To find your website at all I had to search for margaret21.com within WP. Your blog name showed no results under manage followed sites.

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    1. Thanks Rebecca. I will ask tomorrow, though my usual suspects seem to be finding my posts and not mentioning anything strange. I personally don’t use the Reader at all, and follow the sites I like by getting email notification when they publish – you included, so I don’t really become aware if the Reader has any issues.

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  21. These photos are breathtaking, Margaret!! The sea, slop, sky, flower, … are all beautifully captured.
    We have had over 100F for a couple of weeks now, it was 96F, such a break!

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