From My View: July 2014

25 July 2014

Summertime Scavenger Hunt 3

Here are some more of my finds for Rinda's Summertime Scavenger Hunt:

No. 1 A sign welcoming people to your home town. This is not my home town as I do not live near where I was born (London) - I did live in Wells for 26 years and visit often as my friends live there.

Wells is the smallest city in the UK

You can just see Wells Cathedral - this photo taken next to the sign.

No. 2 - A garden gnome

Spotted in my Aunt's garden

No. 9 - A bakery

Lots of delicious sandwiches and cake can be purchased here, their main bakery is in Glastonbury, this is their branch in Wells. I used to treat myself to a sandwich once a week when I worked in Glastonbury.

No. 14 - A parade

The air force cadets marching at a local show.

No. 18 - a waterfall

No 19 - A public garden

The last four photographs were taken at Forde Abbey a house and garden open to the public.

I still have many more to get so check back to see more.

23 July 2014

Walk and Geocaching

A very hot day on Wednesday, we were going to go to Winscombe to walk along Strawberry Way but I thought there would be little shade. Instead we went to Mells to Colliers Way. My son took his bike (we had to use 2 cars) and Tara and I walked and I took photographs.

We decided to look for some Geocaches while we were there.

The first Geocache was in among brambles and nettles - a winter cache I think. My son then went to find the cache called 'End of the Line' and came back with the cache.

Is the cache this way?

It's a lovely place to walk, I hope to go back in the autumn or winter to find more.

09 July 2014

ZIZO - week 28

I belong to the local Gardening club and we visit gardens during the spring and summer, these are excellent opportunities for me to take photographs of flowers which I love, also perfect subjects for Zoom In, Zoom Out. Here is what I spotted last week:

A lovely place to sit

This is what caught my eye - I would love one of these!

See more Zoom In Zoom Out here

Month in Numbers - June

I started doing My Month in Numbers last year and really enjoyed doing it but for some reason I just stopped counting - time to start again!

We took part in the Great British Greyhound Walk again this year:

we walked with our Greyhound Rescue group at Clevedon where there were 42 hounds walking. The weather was perfect, sunshine with a light breeze.

Afterwards we had a well earned rest and had food and drinks

our ticket for the raffle was number 42 and we won!

Here is the total for the day:

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I have 110 stitches on my knitting needles right now, I have started twice as I went wrong, you will have to check back to find out what I am knitting - it may take me a while.

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June marks 6 months into the year, I have just checked on my computer and I have taken 2700 photos so far. I am learning to take still life photos so a lot of them are repeats of the same thing from different angles.

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That's it for now I am rather late with this post but better late than never!

02 July 2014

ZIZO

A few weeks ago I visited Forde Abbey in Dorset, there are several wisterias growing on walls which were in bloom and looking so pretty. I was fascinated by the twisted shapes of the trunks and stems. A perfect subject for Zoom In Zoom Out.