Another band rehearsal....

 

The band is fortunate enough this year to be playing in London twice......

firstly at one of the Royal parks - St James's and secondly at Westminster Abbey!

Countryside

.....just out for an evening walk with the dog, passing the countryside on the way!

Today's washing.......

.............is tomorrow's ironing!!!

Summer Fruit

Delicious fruit after a great barbecue with fab friends.

Thanks Ali and Muntin!

Decisions

It's that time again - the roots need doing! Hairdressers this morning. 

Which colour highlights to have today.?...

"Remi" does a great job - I will miss him when he goes to London!

Gardens

An evening walk with the dog along the coastal path at Folkestone

Some great flowers here and wonderful colour!

Traffic

We had fun this evening on a bridge overlooking the motorway - having played with the knobs and dials on the camera - we were really pleased with our first results!  

Night-time driving!!

The curious horse

....whilst driving along the narrow country lanes.. captured this rather curious horse.......

later in the day the weeds were identified to me as "Ragwort"....a poisonous food for horses....

• Poisoning can occur at ANY time of the year Ragwort poisoning destroys the liver, leading to slow, painful death Poisonous to most animals but horses and cattle are most susceptible
• Once symptoms have appeared in an affected animal little can be done and it will usually die
• Acts in a cumulative fashion - a small amount eaten over a period of time is just as damaging as one large dose
• Animals eating 5 percent or more of their total daily diet of ragwort for periods exceeding 20 consecutive days can be expected to die within a 6-month period
• The plants
  1st year - rosette stage - most poisonous
  2nd year - stem/flower stage - each plant can produce 150,000 seeds, with a 70% germination rate
• A horse can get ragwort poisoning without actually having any plants in their paddock! Seeds/spores from plants in neighboring fields can blow over and contaminate a paddock apparently free from plants. A horse can eat or inhale these - and cumulative poisoning can begin. 

TIME TO REMOVE IT FROM OUR COUNTRYSIDE 

.....yet another Dandilion

Went for a walk again with the dog this evening and found myself taking more photos of these plants...I just love them!   Just to be different, this is an incomplete "Dandilion clock" 

I hope you like it

Father's Day

After unpacking a selection of fancy beers and ales............

a tour of the factory awaits!!!

Happy Father's Day dad   xx

View from the dump

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Well, it wasn't an official dump.....

just tipped on the side of the road

Sad !

The Weavers

The Weavers is one of the most famous and most photographed of Canterbury's buildings. It was built  in 1500, and was intended to house weavers who had come from Flanders or France to flee religious persecution and/or to find work.  

The top photograph is one taken from the bridge, through the railings looking down river

- the wall in the bottom photo is the start of the bridge.

Zoe's creation!

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My lovely neighbour is making and selling hundreds of  bracelets like this one I bought.....

....to raise money for Breast Cancer Research

There is always hope!

Tilbury sky

Early evening in Tilbury

Clover fields

.....but no 4 leaf clovers to be found -

Unlucky for some !

Love in the Mist ......2010

.....yet another flower from dad's garden.  The petals are blue but I thought it worked well in black and white - especially the centre which reminds me of snakes!!

Enjoy!

Bumble Bee

 Taking photos in dad's garden 

He saw me trying to get a snap of a bee on a flower and said

"you'll be lucky"

Well, I think I was!!

England -v- USA

 .....Ready for the  first match of the World Cup

Unfortunately the final score was a pitiful 1 - 1 

Pampass

....still practicing with the macro lens....

Thin new pampass grass leaf with droplets of rain.

If you go down to the woods today .......

 

........you never know what you'll find!

Goldenrod Crab Spiders are usually yellow but that’s not always the case, even among individual spiders. If one of these spiders should find itself on a white flower, it can change its color to match the new background. This is accomplished through the movement of liquid pigment the spiders produce and shuttle from lower to upper “skin” layers as needed. It takes one of these spiders about 6 days to change from yellow to white but as long as 30 days to accomplish the reverse color shift. 

Daisy

Ox-eye or Dog Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) 

.....the big ones found by the side of the road.....you know the sort!

Poppy field

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This is the best of the first set of photos taken with the new "fish eye" lens......

Lots of learning to do!

Stormy weather

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky ......

.......Stormy weather!

Recycle

..........Crate full - ready for the next "bottle bank" visit!

Acer

After the rain

- first shot taken with the new macro lens

 Thanks Tim x

....we were just thinking........?

......what if ?!!

The Hammock

..........someone needed to put their feet up

after a very exhausting day!!

Garden Rose

...just one of the white roses in the garden

Cocktails

..........at the best hotel in town!

Cheers Dawn and Tim xx