Fresh as a buttercup, or daisy?
The Weekly Photo Challenge asks for Fresh images this week. Or even a little chilly?
I hope it’s warming up nicely wherever you are. Have a happy week and don’t forget to pop over to Cate at Show My Face to share your six words.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Fresh.”
Like those clouds, I’d like to let it all just drift away
How quickly a week passes! After last week’s funk and all your kind wishes, I’m resolved to stop skittering about and simply enjoy what comes my way.
I love clouds! Except, of course, when I’m bumping down through them on an aircraft, but that’s a different story. I’m only two weeks away from my next visit to the Algarve, and the tingle of excitement is there already. Before that I have a couple of days in London, so peace will not come so easily. The buzz of the city will surround me.
I have so many cloud photos! These were snatched from the car
These too!
So many times I’ve watched the sun come up through my front window and set again in the evening, behind my home. The peace and wonder of it all envelopes me, and I love it.
That first glimmer of sunlight
Till the last curtain fall
Just beautiful, isn’t it?
Wishing you all peace this weekend. I may post for Six Word Saturday next week, but I’ll be in transit so my response will be slow. In any case, the world will keep on turning. I hadn’t seen the Daily Post challenge when I posted this, but really- what could be more serene?
Please don’t forget to share your week with Cate at Show My Face, and maybe join me for a walk on Monday? I’ll look forward to it.
Not so much shadowed as dwarfed!
Lost him!
I had little intention of clambering to the heights of Penshaw Monument when I set out for my walk on Monday. It was blowing a gale, for one thing! But blue sky and the temptation to ‘see for miles’ got the better of me.
You can even climb to the very top, by a hidden staircase, in Summer
It didn’t last long before the rain gusted in, but it was good while it lasted. And how else would I meet the weekly challenge?
Magdalene Odundo exhibit, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
Last week I suggested that it was a great time of year to visit museums. One of my very favourites in the North East of England is the National Glass Centre at Sunderland. I’m always excited to see the new creations and exhibitions.
The shot above is of Magdalene Odundo’s Transition II and you can see a video of its creation on the link. It was captivating seen from any angle.
I love the shadows, rippling across the floor
With the occasional flare of colour
Of course, I couldn’t resist the lure of the display cabinets and the new items in there.
Isn’t this a lovely piece?
And, naturally. there were owls!
And joyful elephants- why not?
I imagine you can see just why I love going there. Maybe we’ll pop in again on my Monday walk, next week.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “New.”
Hartlepool council have organised Seaton Celebrates , to mark the completion of major sea defence work and the extended promenade at Seaton Carew. Activities are to include sand sculpture workshops. Well, there’s no shortage of sand on our beach! Which is just as well, because world champion sculptress Nicola Wood will be creating a large scale sculpture.
I’m hoping it will be on a par with the amazing themed sculptures which feature each year at the FIESA festival in the Algarve. To be fair, they have a whole team working on them. We are also promised a roller skating display, and street theatre, which will include sea creatures and a mermaid. There’ll be nautically themed craft stalls and the singing of sea shanties too.
How do I know this? The White Crane t’ai chi group (I’m a member) will be giving a demonstration. I expect to be there, camera in hand at least part of the time. It’s on all Saturday afternoon, between 12 and 5pm.
What do you have planned for Saturday? Can you describe it in six words? Pop over to see Cate at Show My Face and see exactly how it should be done. This post is just so Summer, I really think it could find a home in Summer Lovin‘. Don’t you?
I must stop playing with Lunapic. It’s becoming a bad habit! Have a happy Saturday.
The rooftop at La Pedrera
For most of the time I was in Barcelona I was on top of the world! Gaudi’s architecture far surpassed my expectations. Could anything top this? A world of pure fantasy.
Patterned or ‘plain’
Everywhere you looked, someone was pointing a camera!
And who could blame them?
At Casa Batllo, I felt I was drifting off into that sky
Lost among the chimney pots
One man’s vision, more than enough for me
From the second I saw the Weekly Photo Challenge, my head was full of Gaudi and the time I spent in Barcelona. I reached some wonderful heights, culminating in the breathtaking Sagrada Familia. If you ever have the chance, do go.
Thanks for the memories! On top was this week’s theme. Don’t forget to visit.
For those of you who think I spend my life languishing in the Algarve sunshine, here’s a look at Restlessjo’s everyday world. Let’s start at the railway station, shall we?
If the weather’s good, I don’t need to travel far. Many of my shots are taken on Hartlepool Headland. There are always boats, or some form of activity. Now we have a fleet of windmills out at sea. Look closely at the middle photo.
The promenade wraps around Old Hartlepool, as the Headland used to be known. A brisk walk along it will surely blow the cobwebs away. In the distance, signs of former industry.
The town wall is probably the nicest part of the Headland, and certainly the warmest. These were taken on a warm but strangely foggy day last Summer. The fog disappeared as rapidly as it came.
Not such a bad old place, is it? This is my entry for the Weekly Photo Challenge. Did I tell my story in threes?
The Infinity Bridge, Stockton-on-Tees
An object that tells a story was what Cheri asked for on the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. I hadn’t intended to take part this week but, returning from a flying visit to a retail park this afternoon, I caught a glimpse of one of my favourite bridges, silhouetted against a wonderful sky. “Can we stop for just a minute?” I asked, and was off like a whirlwind, clutching the camera.
The “story” for me is always what is on the opposite shore. I love the “invitation to cross” that a bridge always provides. How about you?
Again
And again!
Have you entered yet? I’m off to read some of the other “stories”.
Looking out from the Cascade
I suspect that whatever your criteria for grand might be, Chatsworth House could fulfil it. I honeymooned in the Peak District almost 25 years ago, and the memory of its grandeur and the beauty of the surroundings remains with me. The house sits in extensive grounds, with a wooded hill rising up behind it. I returned, with my daughter Lisa, on a day unbelievably lovely for December.
I noted from Wikipedia that during World War II the house was occupied by 300 schoolgirls, for six years. The Duke felt that they might be easier on his home than the soldiers who would otherwise be billeted there. I’m not so sure! In any event, they grew vegetables in the Kitchen garden to contribute to the war effort, and skated on the Canal Pond when it froze over.
Eventually you arrive at the top of the Cascade
To be bewitched by the dancing fountains
And the suitably disguised Pump house
Onwards and upwards to the Grotto next, where you can sit in the bandstand, mistress of all you survey. A lady visitor was obviously much pleased with her surroundings, and I tried, in my halting French, to exchange a few words.
And if you’re very good, you just might try
A cream tea!
I don’t feel that I’ve really done the gardens justice. Maybe it’s because I was so overwhelmed by the beauty of the house. The “Narnia” Christmas theme made it very special. I’ll be writing more about the house and its occupants later this week.
In the meantime, I hope you feel you’ve had a grand day out? (yes, I quite like Wallace and Gromit too) I’m linking this post to Cheri’s Weekly Photo Challenge. Join me there?
Sagrada Familia, reflected in the lake in Gaudi Square
I just couldn’t help myself this morning! I’ve already said farewell to Gaudi, and I’ve halfway constructed this week’s Six word Saturday. But the Weekly Photo Challenge this week is irresistible, isn’t it? (you’re right- I don’t have tremendous willpower!) Does grand come any grander than this?
And inside the aura deepens!
The pathos in this figure
And the self containment of this.
I’ve never seen anything like it.
I’ve already posted numerous photos of Sagrada Familia. Please excuse just a few more. I’ll be joining many others on the Weekly Photo Challenge. See you there.
restlessjo 
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