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Post by Kath on Feb 2, 2024 8:31:41 GMT
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Post by Kath on Feb 2, 2024 8:32:17 GMT
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Post by dans on Feb 2, 2024 19:54:46 GMT
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Post by dans on Feb 2, 2024 19:55:20 GMT
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Post by kate on Feb 2, 2024 20:22:24 GMT
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Post by kate on Feb 2, 2024 20:25:02 GMT
Can't beat that. Love it. |
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Post by Kath on Feb 3, 2024 10:14:09 GMT
Can't beat that. Love it. Thank you! I even wrote a bad poem about it. |
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Post by kate on Feb 3, 2024 10:41:42 GMT
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Post by kate on Feb 3, 2024 10:42:49 GMT
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Post by peterob on Feb 3, 2024 11:10:16 GMT
This (stitch) is an artificial pond at Ness Gardens, taken yesterday. It is a landscaped environment but somehow unfinished. There is a bench by the pond (this picture taken standing up to avoid some long grasses) which is peaceful to sit at especially with the reflection of the opposite hillside and stand of pines. Nothing much seems to happen here, it doesn't erupt with formal planting and the concavity in the hillside opposite, while bordered by mown areas grows wild.  DSCF0945-Pano.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Feb 3, 2024 11:20:44 GMT
Much less photogenic, and this fails to capture it, is a patch of lightly managed woodland that has had paths cleared through it, dividing the stand into islands of trees with roughly planted bulbs, here snowdrops not fully out. Taken from a seat. It is very peaceful. It isn't pretty - looks a bit of a mess - but it does have a charm to it. This joiner overstates the path. I was sitting down and the low angle of view has given too much weight to the ground in front of me.  DSCF0942-Pano.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Feb 3, 2024 11:30:23 GMT
Fallen bamboo. I really took this for yesterday's segments but I only managed to get the photos on the new computer (grrr) this morning. Walking through the bamboo planting always feels a bit strange. The are in distinct clumps and there always seem to be small paths between them, kids playing hide and seek I suppose. The varieties here seem to the small type similar to those used as garden canes. They grow easily 12' or more tall. A bamboo forest of large varieties must be quite amazing.  DSCF0950.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by dans on Feb 3, 2024 12:49:35 GMT
Can't beat that. Love it. Thank you! I even wrote a bad poem about it. Ooh, let's hear it 😁 |
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Post by kate on Feb 3, 2024 13:32:55 GMT
Thank you! I even wrote a bad poem about it. Ooh, let's hear it 😁 Believe it or not, it inspired me to write one too. |
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Post by Kath on Feb 3, 2024 15:54:53 GMT
Thank you! I even wrote a bad poem about it. Ooh, let's hear it 😁 You asked...be warned... Spring Bulbs, LussHunting treasures on the shore But finding none of note I meandered carwards, one among our straggly crowd And spied a string of bulbs aloft. Rain-soaked, spattered and shattered They spoke to me of poetry: A melancholy parody of parties past Shades of bright nights and laughter Former glories and hangovers fading ‘til Forgotten. Would I have made a picture had they been intact? I doubt it. Whole, they’d sit among the gnomes and wagon wheels A bland brand statement of personality Bought in bulk from B&M. But broken, battered, clinging on against the odds Suffering soakings, limply accepting spider silks as Adornment They caught my eye as my eye is often caught By things left out to rot. |
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