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
Cheri’s first post of the year is about Beginning. She wants to see what we see through our lenses.
As someone who divides the year into seasons I see the beginning as spring, when nature awakes from the cold of the winter and new life appears. Snowdrops are usually the first flowers to raise their heads above the frozen ground, so it is an obvious choice for me to choose the common snowdrop or Galanthus nivalis.
If you would like to see what others have come up with for this challenge then go to the Daily Post @ WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
This weekly challenge is hosted by Dawn from ‘The Day After’ who invites participants to post pictures of any windows that they find curious, inviting, photogenic, or in some way tell a story.
Down the drive,Under the early yellow leaves of oaks;One lodge is Tudor, one in Indian style.The bridge, the waterfall, the Temple PoolAnd there they burst on us, the onion domes,Chajjahs and chattris made of amber stone:‘Home of the Oaks’, exotic Sezincote.
Sezincote (pronounced seas in coat) is a British estate, located in Gloucestershire, England. It was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1805, and is a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century architecture from the Mughal Empire. At the time of its construction, British India was becoming the “jewel in the crown” of the world’s largest empire…. Wikipedia
It was also the inspiration for the Brighton Pavilion.
This extraordinary Indian house set in the Cotswolds hills has a central dome, minarets, peacock-tail windows, jail-work railings and pavilions. The main photo above shows the curving Orangery which frames the Persian Garden of Paradise with a fountain and canals. A more in depth post about the gardens is on my flower blog: Earth Laughs in Flowers
Every week Sue from ‘A Word in Your Ear’ dips into her English Oxford dictionary and picks a word on the page that it falls open at. The challenge is to post a photograph, poem, story – whatever the genre you like best to describe what that word means to you.
This week’s challenge is GAP (click to join in with the challenge)
| synonyms: | opening, aperture, space, breach, chink, slit, slot, vent, crack, crevice, cranny, cavity, hole, orifice, interstice, perforation, break, fracture, rift, rent, fissure, cleft, divide, discontinuity; |
A few years ago my husband and I were travelling around the Canyon Circle in the USA during March and I had booked us on to a photography tour of a photogenic slot canyon close to Page, Arizona where we were staying for two nights. I chose The Upper Antelope Canyon or the Crack, as it is the easiest to access and also the best canyon for sunbeams (though these only take place during the summer months). Winter colours are a little more muted. You need a permit or permission from the Navajo so it is easiest to go on a tour, the photography tour is more expensive, but also longer, and if you want to sell your photos you also need a commercial permit.
The entrance is a narrow curved slit in the cliffs only a few feet wide and the light filtering down the curved sandstone walls makes magical, constantly changing patterns and shadows in many subtle shades of colour. Some sections of the canyon are wide and bright, while others are narrower and more cave-like, with no light reaching the sandy floor. It is not easy to capture the beauty of the canyon, but you will come away with wonderful memories.
Happy New Year to all my blogging friends who have joined me this year. Every like, view and comment is much appreciated and I am grateful for your friendship. I hope you have a happy, healthful and joyful 2014.
As a new year begins I think it is time for me to re-think my blogging strategy. I started blogging early last year (2013) and because I enjoy writing travelogues and have hundreds of photos I decided to split them into several different blogs. Now it is time for a New Year’s resolution; I am going to combine and re-organize my blogs so they are mostly all together in this one. I will be keeping my flower blog separate because I feel it is a very different genre. The posts will be re-categorized as follows: Continue reading Exciting New Changes
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