Zoë. Our granddaughter. Born 7th August 2018, at just 28 weeks, and weighing 1.19 kg.
What a difference two years make.
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Windows? Or Washing?
August is traditionally Silly Season in the media. I’ll join in. I’ll pretend that it’s the two windows you can just about see that are the subject of this post. We all know it’s really the washing line. And its contents.
Disclaimer: this is not our washing.
These are Silly Season entries for both Monday Window and Jude’s Photo Challenge, which is this week about colour with a bit of zing.
Flowers for the Queen of Squares
These flowers are for Becky, indefatigable host of Square Perspectives. She has encouraged us to look for an astonishing range of perspectives over the last month, and to share our findings with contributors in every continent. Thank you, Becky.
Normal service will be resumed in August. Whatever ‘normal’ means these days. The flowers will bash on regardless.
Wood Warms You Thrice….
.. when you cut it, when you split it, and when you burn it.
So goes the old saying. Well, wood warms us thrice too. We don’t fell trees and we don’t split logs. But we do burn wood, in our wood-burning stove. And before that, we forage in the woods nearby to supplement the wood we buy for the winter months.
This was the week when we bought, sorted and stacked the trailer load we’d ordered. It burns calories alright. From our point of view, it’s worth more than any gym membership. And eeh by gum we feel right proud when all is safely gathered in.
And thank you, Becky, for the idea, when I was running out of Squares Steam. Can’t stop now …
Empty Space? Or Part of the Story?
This week, Jude’s Photo Challenge invites us to use empty – negative – space as part of a photo.
I thought that Becky’s Perspective Squares Challenge provided a perfect tool to consider the value of this space. Is it empty – as in vacant? Or does it tell us more about what’s going on?
So I’m going to show you each shot twice. Once with the negative space I originally included, and then again, cropped to a square illustrating only the subject. Which do you prefer, in each case?
This is a whistlestop tour to the bird reserve at Slimbridge, to the Farne Islands, and for the last two sets of shots, to Dallowgill, a lonely, beautiful moor in Nidderdale, only a few miles from home. Click on the images to bring them up full size
Godwit at Slimbridge.
Arctic Tern at the Farne Islands.
Sheep at Dallowgill, Nidderdale.
Dallowgill, Nidderdale.
Cheering Up a Car
Back in the Former Normal, and as it turned out, not long before Lockdown, I was in London. Cherry blossom season is long gone, but not my memory of this car, offering a fresh perspective on customising your vehicle.
A Quiz: the Answers
And here are the answers to yesterday’s photo quiz. How did you get on? When I first prepared this post, I put the answers under each photo. And WordPress uploaded them into the quiz post …. so I had to think again.
- Aeriel view of a lemon squeezer.
- A stack of Ordnance Survey maps.
- A household brush.
- A tea towel.
- Breakfast cereal.
- A wooden cupboard door.
- A grater.
- Noodles. Half a point only for ‘pasta’.
- A tin opener.
- A hammer head.
- Water running from a bathroom tap.
- Nailclippers.
A Quiz
We’re half way though the month, so let’s see if you’re all still paying attention.
These are all household objects, taken from a fresh perspective.
Have a go at guessing what they are.
Answers tomorrow – no prizes, not even a booby prize.
How Now Brown Cow?
I normally eye up cows somewhat warily when out on country walks. This lot seem to be keeping out of my way. This perspective is just how I prefer it.
Too Late to Spring Clean?
I often pass this window on my walk. It’s in a farmyard outbuilding, and the detritus on the other side of the panes never changes. Neither do the spiders’ webs. They neither grow nor disappear. Time for a spring clean and change of perspective?
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
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