Tue, 31 May 2011 fuzzy
Martin spotted this hairy little fellow the other day while we were walking our dog.
I hunkered down and got a few snaps of this impressive caterpillar using my mobile phone camera. I was really happy with the detail it captured.
You’d expect to discover a caterpillar like this in a warner country, but it seems [...]
Wed, 25 May 2011 take a deep breath
I like to play around with images in Paint Shop Pro: change their colours, deform them, reverse them, etc. and see what happens. A lot of the time I have no objective other than to see what arises. It’s an enjoyable exercise for me.
This started out as a photo I took of a children’s ride [...]
Mon, 09 May 2011 a busy period
I’m coming into a busy couple of weeks and I’m unsure of how much time I’ll have to allocate to blogging.
While there is a certain requirement these days for people to blog/tweet/etc. on a regular basis, it does impinge upon my allotted ‘free’ time. Over the coming two weeks that free time is shrinking considerably [...]
Thu, 14 April 2011 Gothic sacraments
This is an image from my visit to the Cathedral de Mallorca in Palma city in February.
Technically, I was being rather naughty taking this image, but I couldn’t help it when it came to this startling section of the Cathedral, which is the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament.
I have a thing for massive, elaborate Gothic [...]
Mon, 11 April 2011 primrose heart
In the West of Ireland we’re enjoying wildly mercurial weather, as is typical for Spring. Today there were two downpours – one of hailstones – in between periods of glorious sunshine.
The gusting winds rushed the clouds all over the sky. I guess they got annoyed and had a rain tantrum. Who likes being pressured?
I [...]
Mon, 28 March 2011 a host
I suspect Wordsworth’s poem ‘Daffodils‘ is so well-known that its familiarity lends a little contempt.
Still, it is marvellous and uplifting to happen upon a crowd of daffodils, their golden trumpets bouncing in March breezes. After a long winter it’s a lovely sight, especially if you’re lucky enough to have sunshine to add a gleam to [...]
Wed, 23 March 2011 the wren the wren the king of all birds
This little fellow had quite an escapade today.
Since we’re having beautiful weather at the moment I left the back door to our kitchen/dining room open. A while later, as I tapped away on the computer, I heard scuffling noises from the kitchen. When I investigated I discovered this chap rustling about among the cups on [...]
Fri, 18 March 2011 shake up the sky
I always say trees and sky belong together.
I snapped this a few days ago, and I love how the cloud formations seem like cartoon movement ripples or sound lines radiating from the tree.
As if it is hollering out: Wake up! Spring has returned!
Wed, 16 March 2011 Spring
I took this photograph today of the Cherry-plum tree in my front garden. It’s always the welcome first herald of Spring, blossoming before most other trees.
We’ve had two stunning, sunny days in a row, and the tree is garlanded with flowers now. Against the clear, azure skies the laden boughs sink and sigh, gravid in [...]
Mon, 14 March 2011 memories of Japan
In the autumn of 2007 Martin and I travelled to Japan. It was a country both of us always wanted to visit, and it was a memorable trip.
My favourite part was our short seclusion in the Buddhist village of Kôyasan, which is located high in the mountains south of Osaka. It was founded twelve centuries [...]
