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Spoon Daisies

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: This black and white challenge is topic related and this week the theme is Flowers

My entry is a pair of South African Osteospermum “Whirligig Nasinga Cream” otherwise known as Spoon Daisies.

Join in with the challenge here.

Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Happiness is…

Ed is a truck driving photographer from Tennessee who hosts a photography challenge blog called Sunday Stills here on WordPress.

This week Ed would like to see what makes you happy

Red sky at night, shepherds delight,
Red sky in the morning, shepherds warning.

Well I don’t usually see sunrises (I am more of a night person), but this morning I happened to catch sight of this sky around 8 a.m. and it made me so happy I had to go downstairs and grab my camera. Sadly the old wives tale was all too true as the day turned foggy and wet. Again.
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sunrise

Sunrise

Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Passageway

Cee’s Which Way Challenge: There is no specific theme given. It just needs to be some sort of ‘Which Way’. The possibilities are endless.

Shropshire has an odd name for its alleys or passageways, particularly those that pass through a building from one street to another – shuts – derived from shoots as in ‘shoots through‘. In Ludlow there are a few of these as well as several cobbled lanes and hidden courtyards which date from the medieval period.

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The Vineyard off Lower Broad Street

Quality Square

Quality Shut

Vineyard Shut

Harp Lane

Just Back From… 1066

It seemed fitting for my 100th post on this blog to write about an historical event, one with far more importance though…

It is a date that every English child will know sooner or later. The year 1066, when King Harold was shot in the eye by an arrow and died on the battlefields at Hastings. The most famous battle fought on English soil and the last successful invasion of this country. Continue reading Just Back From… 1066

My Year in Photos – 2013

2013 has been an unusual year for me in that I have not left the shores of the UK once! That doesn’t mean that I have stayed at home all year – no I have travelled to the south-east, the south-west, right across the Midlands to the east coast and to the west into Wales. The only direction I haven’t been in this year is North! And in between all this to-ing and fro-ing I even managed to have a few local trips, all of which have made me grateful that I have my health to enjoy such travels.

So here are some of my favourite memories of this year, enjoy them and I wish a Happy New Year to all my WordPress blogging friends 😀

This post links well with a couple of the end of year challenges, notably Sue’s ‘A Word in Your Ear’ Reflect, and the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge showing Joy.