Bench series #31

For the month of August I’m looking for a colourful bench

(This month I want to see photos of a bench that is painted or stained or otherwise coloured in some way. Not the plain wooden variety unless there is some colour detail)

Chinoiserie benches in Hamilton Gardens, New Zealand
Chinoiserie benches in Hamilton Gardens, New Zealand

If you would like to join in with the Bench photo challenge then please take a look at my Bench Series page. No complicated rules, just a bench and a camera required 🙂

  • Create your own post and title it Bench Series: August
  • Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
  • Add the tag ‘bench series’ so everyone can find the benches easily in the WP Reader
  • Get your post in by the end of the month, as the new bench theme comes out on the first Sunday in September.

My Picks of the Week:

The last unusual benches are from Joan (a newcomer so please make her welcome) with a Gothic bench and Tgeriatrix who ends with something similar to what I started the month with and one in Barcelona.
Sonya shows how skate-boards can be recycled / upcycled. Allotmental joins in with more hands. What is it about hands and benches? Swagata’s benches are not that unusual, but what they are facing certainly is. Debbie has gone reptilian on me and Sylvia takes us back to Costa Rica. Meanwhile Ruth shows us two very different benches, one so unusual I have never seen anything like it and finally Sherri manages to join in with the fun after being computer-less for far too long with a stone sofa – yes you read that correctly – find it at the end of her very funny tale of motherhood.

As always there are so many delightful benches to view, I hope you will check out the rest of the links within the comment section. And I thank everyone for sharing their unusual benches with me during July.

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Heyjude

I have lived in the UK for most of my life, but when young I definitely had wanderlust and even ended up living in South Africa for several years which was a wonderful experience. I now look forward to a long and leisurely retirement doing what I like most - gardening, photography, walking and travelling.

68 thoughts on “Bench series #31”

  1. I like the way their brightness is nestled in amongst the greenery. and the slight warring between flower pink and bench orange (persimmon? outrageous orange #FF6E4A?)

    1. I have never heard of outrageous orange, what a fab name for a colour! I thought the benches were more red than orange, but maybe that’s the calibration of my monitor. Now I am worried about other colours… 😕

  2. Another great selection. There is seemingly no end to the amount of fascinating benches on offer. I like the stone sofa and the tortoises, but I have to go with the Barcelona bench, with its own fire, and sloping chimney. Most unusual.
    (I left a comment on the Dublin bench)
    Regards as always, Pete. x

    2. I have been amazed to see so many unusual benches around the world. Most make mine seem quite normal!

      1. I have seen quite a few car boots converted into sofas or benches, but never a partly-enclosed bench with its own fire! x

        1. Well it was the only day we went into Hamilton and it was almost called off, but I so wanted to visit the gardens. That’s the trouble when you don’t have your own transport. I don’t mind getting wet for my art (hee hee…)

    1. It is an enchanting garden Sylvia, but sadly raining on my visit. I still enjoyed wandering around.

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    1. Thanks Cee – have you got any benches to share? Or perhaps you are too busy with all your challenges, I honestly don’t know how you keep up with them all 😀 I take my hat off to you!

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