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I needed to run into Carlisle today, the nearest city to us. Since first getting here I’ve been curious about this quarry and I took a closer look at it today. I thought the sheep gave quite a nice foreground interest to the image and converting it to black and
This is a shot of the outback that is our back garden looking out past our neighbours land and into the forestry area. The picture shows a fairly distinct split between the area still warmed by the setting sun and the area that is now in shade as the evening
This is a photograph of this view (well a little to the right avoiding the gate) taken tonight just before the moon rose. I’m surprised by the amount of light pollution to the left hand side and there is a small amount of Aurora Borealis to the right hand side.
We occasionally have sheep visit the garden. They’re not supposed to but our neighbours sheep are great escape artists and they always enjoy a good feed on our lawn before ambling off down into what can best be described as scrubland behind the house. One of our recent visitors has
I can’t keep away. I set off again down our burn to see the waterfalls and cascades this afternoon. We’ve not had much rain recently and the burn is quite shallow at the moment. This was to lead to a moment of complacency from me that I would regret. At
Down at the Harden Burn this afternoon in the garden and I was having a look at this chain which is strung from a wire across the stream just before you reach a tunnel that goes under the road next to our house. There is a matching set up on
These primroses (Primula vulgaris) are down by the Harden Burn that runs through the bottom of our garden and is a sure sign that Spring is starting to arrive, along with the longer, (slightly) warmer days.
This week’s 52 week challenge is “Egg” so here is my Egg picture! Not more that I can say about this really!
This is a shot taken looking out of our garden across to the Florida Forestry area where, potentially we will be having both wind turbines and new giant electricity pylons built. It’s not yet clear (and planning hasn’t, yet, been given) whether these will be visible from our garden…but they
Here’s the lovely Jess reclining on the bed. I’d accidentally left the 2 second self-timer on from when I was photographing the waterfalls the over day, so instead of firing the shot immediately the camera gave a high pitched count down…which really peaked Jess’s interest and so got some nice
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