Summertime Scavenger Hunt 4

Number 8 on the list is 'A Tattoo on a Person'.  This was going to be my most difficult photo to take as I don't know anyone with a tattoo and although I see many tattoos, unless you know the person it is difficult to just ask if you can take a photo - well it is difficult for me.

Yesterday I went to a Geocaching meet (Visit Geocaching.com for an explanation about what geocaching is) in my local park and at these meetings people bring along travel bugs and trackables  to swap or just to 'Discover' .  According to Geocaching.com  'A Travel Bug is a Trackable that moves from place to place, picking up stories along the way. '  In fact Tara my dog is a trackable, she wears a dog tag  'Log my Dog' with a special number that can be logged when people discover her.

Some travel bugs

So what did I see?   A travel bug on a person - yes a tattooed travel bug!

So I can now claim no. 8 - A tattoo on a person!

My Month in Numbers - July

Is it really August now - where did July go?  July was a busy month for me, hopefully I can relax a little in August.

At the beginning of the month I went with my local gardening club to visit Esotera Garden and what a beautiful garden it is. It is 2 acres with 3 ponds.We spent 2 hours wandering around and then stopped for tea and cake. The garden is part of the National Gardens Scheme which means they open on certain days of the year to raise money for charities.  I have just checked the website and unfortunately there are not any more opening days this year.  So next year if you are visiting Somerset in Spring or early Summer, I recommend a visit.

While there I took 152 photographs and did think that back in the days of film that would have been over 4 films of 36 pictures.

The way I take photographs has changed so much, I used to be much more careful composing the shot to get it right as film and getting the photographs developed could be quite expensive, I  now take many more photographs than I used to but do wonder if I am so careful as I used to be.

11 members of my family visited from USA, they had a wonderful time visiting  London and the West Country. We had a family party before they returned, 40 of us enjoyed chatting and eating, my family are spread out all over the country and in the USA so we don't see each other very often.

My Aunt was treated to a ride in an Austin A7, a great surprise for her.

We experienced 4 hours of thunderstorms in the middle of the month, I was up most of the night, due to the noise and a shaking, pacing hound.

My son and I went to Colliers Way - me to walk and him to ride his bike.It was a very hot day the temperature was in the 80s but luckily there is a lot of shade so Tara did not get too overheated. He rode 7 miles while Tara and I walked 2 miles. We stopped for a picnic before returning.

I visited Colliers Way in April last year -follow this link to see how it looked then - http://starnitesky.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/walk-on-colliers-way.html

At the end of the month we attended the Greyhound Gathering and picnic held in Bristol to raise money for Greyhounds. The weather was perfect - not too hot for the dogs.  All together £1442.02 was raised and GRWE (the rescue I got Tara from) raised over £700.

Tara and her new toy.

This is Alfie who wore his hat and flags all day!

My Month in Numbers was devised by Julie Kirk on her blog Notes on Paper.  To see more Month in Numbers visit Julie's Pinterest page http://www.pinterest.com/notesonpaper/my-month-in-numbers/