Posted in Art & Design, Gardening, My garden, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged design, Gardening, photography on November 29, 2012| 8 Comments »
The view from my window – with Photoshop stained glass filter…
This post is just a bit of playing around with Photoshop, really. I’ve had Photoshop CS3 for years but still love messing about with the “filters” options. They are such an easy way of creating a special effect with no artistic talent whatsoever!
As the basis for these experiments I used this image of (more…)
Posted in Birds, Nature, Uncategorized, tagged birds, seagulls on November 27, 2012| 15 Comments »
This seagull was interested in the crow’s meal…
I don’t usually do short posts, but I just wanted to share this picture, as it was such a surprise.
On Sunday I heard a crow making a lot of noise, so grabbed my camera with a longish lens and went to find out what all the fuss was about. All I could see was the crow on a neighbour’s roof, with some scavenged food. So I pointed the lens through the window and snapped, just hoping to get a reasonable portrait.
I swear that as I pressed the button, the seagull wasn’t there, or even on my radar, but I saw a flurry of wings as it went click!
So that’s why the crow was making so much noise…
Posted in Non-digital archive, Nostalgia, Photography, Uncategorized, tagged Ireland, Nostalgia on November 21, 2012| 12 Comments »
Posted in Gardening, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged autumn, Gardening, Nature, Trees on November 14, 2012| 25 Comments »
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I always thought Vincent van Gogh’s cypress trees looked flame-shaped – so I’ve corrected the colour…
Trees are green, right? So I suppose it’s not surprising that people have taken notice when a tree is red. And many times on different continents they have likened it to fire. So here I am going to look at the various flame trees and burning bushes…
Fire and water – my Euonymus alatus leaves after rain this week…
I’ll tell you what got me thinking about this – it was my Euonymus alatus – also (more…)
Posted in Ceredigion, Uncategorized, Wales, tagged Ceredigion, Wales on November 8, 2012| 14 Comments »
Colourful shops in Aberaeron…
In my last post I shared my pictures of Llanerchaeron, high up on the River Aeron in Ceredigion, Mid-West Wales. This time it’s the pretty little town at the mouth of the same river – Aberaeron.
Like some other (more…)
Posted in Ceredigion, Garden visits, Gardening, History, Nature, Uncategorized, Wales, tagged Ceredigion, Gardening, History, Nature, Wales on November 1, 2012| 13 Comments »
Colourful nasturtiums in the garden at Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion, on a wet day in August 2012…
It’s November already and I still haven’t finished sharing my holiday snaps from August! On a wet day (and there were many) we visited the National Trust property at Llanerchaeron, in Ceredigion near the middle of Wales’s west coast.
The property at Llanerchaeron is a late 18th-century Welsh gentry estate – with a house, outbuildings, walled gardens and a small farm. The house is described as a villa, although that makes me think of a Roman country house, or a glamorous holiday home on the Mediterranean, or even a small town house in Edwardian times.
The villa, designed by John Nash, at Llanerchaeron
This one was (more…)
The Squirrelbasket 