Ebbor Gorge

My daughter was visiting for the weekend; we went to Ebbor Gorge in the Mendip Hills for a walk. It is now a nature reserve protected by English Nature, there are three trails through the woodland, one of them goes up through the limestone gorge, we didn’t take that route as our dog is not very good at rock climbing! Neolithic people occupied some of the caves in the area. It is a very peaceful place, when we came out of the woods we saw a deer standing in the pathway, unfortunately I had put my camera away. I used to take my dog there frequently when I was much younger, in those days there were not the steps and paths that are there now, I am not sure which I prefer. I will have to dig out some photos that I took back in the 70’s.

My Views - Going home

After seeing Sonia's landscapes on her blog 'Leaves of Grass' - views of her journey home and the beautiful views on Alice's blog, I decided not to rush home from work today and go via the country lanes and take some photographs. Driving down the lanes instead of the main road was a less stressful drive.

Honeysuckle

Classic Cars

Yesterday my son and I went to see a Classic Car rally. most of the cars I remember well from my younger days!

Wolsley

Hillman Imp

Morris 1000 Traveller

Morris 1000 Traveller

Austin A7

Morris 1000

I took rather a lot of photos of the Morris 1000's as I am rather fond of them, I used to own a Morris 1000 Traveller and a saloon car.

Austin A30 (I think)

Ripples

Grief

I have not been able to do any blogging for some time now, I am still having problems with my shoulder, using a mouse makes it worse so I have limited my use of the computer when I am at home. I can cope at work as I have a special keyboard which enables me to work, I would love to buy one for my home computer but they are rather expensive.

This week has been very emotional. Monday I went to the funeral of a friend, although feeling very sad myself, I believe I picked up on the collective sadness of all the others at the church, as I felt very unsettled for a long time. Then Tuesday a funeral of a 7 year old child, the daughter of a work colleague. Grief is very personal and I don’t always cope well, I believe people and animals go to a ‘better’ place but the sadness of not being able to see the person/animal is difficult for me to deal with.

Concerts

It has been a very busy few days, I played in a brass band concert on Saturday evening and a wind band concert on Sunday evening, plus three rehearsals in three days. Saturday’s concert was challenging, 15 pieces including Poet & Peasant overture by Franz von Suppe, Che Fago Senza Buridice, and Handel’s Water Music Sunday’s concert with the wind band was much more relaxed, the music was demanding but well rehearsed, so much more enjoyable.


The photo is of my trumpet - well its not actually my trumpet it belongs to my son, it is a Vincent Bach Stradivarius but I prefer playing it to my own trumpet.








I have today enjoyed the bank holiday, relaxing and doing coursework for the photography course which will end early June.





Wonderful to have a day off – no getting up early to rush off to work, a stressless day.

I drove though Bristol today – these are my ‘waiting-at-traffic-lights’ photos, one sure way to make traffic lights go green I find is to take out the camera and get interested in where you are stopped! As you can see it didn’t work today, part of the shopping centre of Bristol is being pulled down and rebuilt, hence all the traffic cones and lights.

St George's Day

The town where I live celebrated St George's day with events in and around the market square, there was dancing by the children from local schools, a short play about St George and the band played for an hour. Unfortunately the weather was not very good and it rained, so there were not many people attending the events. Just a few photos of the shops to show you as I was using my film camera as well.

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