Ruby Tuesday: On the Top of the World…

 

… or rather, on the top of the hill in our Town Park,
there is a miniature golf course waiting for the summer season …

Find more red things at Ruby Tuesday 2

Shadow Shot Sunday / Weekend Reflections

“First Day of Spring” (30th April 2012)

Shadow Shot Sunday & Weekend Reflections

Mosaic Monday: Colourful October

No link up yet for Mosaic Monday at Mary’s Little Red House but I’ll go ahead and post mine anyway. All the photos in this collage from our Town Park on 25 October. Magpie in the middle, in case the bird is not familiar to everyone.

The trees are some sort of Japanese cherry blossom. Decorative both in the spring and in the autumn. The leaves covering the trunks are from a different plant climbing up the trees; looks funny this time of year.

Ruby Tuesday: The Last Rose

The last rose of summer? Maybe. One never quite knows…
Photo from the town park, taken at a low angle.

Linked to Ruby Tuesday

All In Blue

  

Blue flowerbed in the Town Park.

Saturday Surprise: Rhododendron Dream

The Rhododendron in our Town Park are at their
most beautiful just now. Come take a walk with me!

Entering from the South-East

Past the magic lamp-post… ;)

Into the centre of the rhododendron grove

Panorama view

Looking along the river towards the town centre

Exit North-West

Turning round, looking back

▲ Close-Up and Macro ▼

Rhododendron means Rose Tree. 
Ancient Greek rhódon "rose", and déndron "tree”

All the photos in this post are straight from the camera.

Shadow Shot Sunday: One, Two, Three – Go!

Hey, there must be something extra going on in town today.
Hardly likely that all these people took their bikes into
the city just because it happens to be a sunny day!

And what is everyone standing in line for?
1-2-3… Obviously a competition of some kind.

Involving wetsuits AND bikes?!
Yep. It’s our very own Triathlon.

Starting with swimming 200 m in the river.

Then quickly out of the water…

… drop the wetsuit, and grab the bike…

… for a race around town …

On a day like this, not too boring for the audience
to have to wait in the park until they come back.

Ah, here they come again, on foot this time…
Trying to outrun their own shadows!

Thirsty work on a hot day!

(Sorry not to have a photo of the winners -
I have to confess I didn’t wait around for that.)

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Linking to Hey Harriet’s Shadow Shot Sunday

Watery Wednesday: Fountain

Walking home through the park; the low evening sun shining through the fountain in the river…

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Watery Wednesday

Watery Wednesday & Mid Week Blues

A flowerbed of pansies along the river in the town park.

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You’ll find a buttons for
Watery Wednesday and Mid Week Blues
at the bottom of the page.

Ruby Tuesday: More Spring Flowers

Red Bellis in the park.

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You’ll find a button for Ruby Tuesday
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Skywatch Grey-Day

We’re still on that weather roller coaster ride. Monday all white with hoar frost thick as I’ve never it seen before. Tuesday thaw and bare trees again. Wednesday creeping down below zero once more. Thursday morning -14°C (I stayed in). Friday more endurable –4° (or so), and again foggy and frosty, but not quite the same kind of thick spiky frost as Monday. More like the world was just sort swept into “dreamy” shades of white and grey – and all very still. I had to go into town and between my errands I took some shots in the park.

Posting this on Saturday morning, the sky is still as grey, but we’re back to +2°C and strong wind; which means the dreamy white from yesterday is gone, and the trees are now making noises while shaking their bare branches. On the whole, this time of year (knowing that the weather is just mocking us about anyway, and has no real intention of turning into proper spring for a couple of months yet) I do prefer the frosty and still –4 to the bare and windy +2. As if it mattered what we think! The weather does with us what it wants anyway…

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See more of the sky at
Skywatch Friday

Mosaic Monday: The Park At Night

When my aunt and uncle were visiting on Sunday after New Year, we went into the town centre late at night for an icy-snowy-slippery walk in the town park, taking photos of the illuminated trees there.

The lights have been up all December but since I’m rarely in town after dark I had not seen them in their full glory. Unfortunately I still don’t have a proper tripod, only a small table-size one, but for some pictures I managed to place that on top of a wastepaper basket or similar for support. Not easy to keep the camera still free-hand long enough for night-shots (especially since my right arm is my “bad” one). So some turned out very blurry – but some quite good.

I will be showing some of them in bigger format later, but I thought I’d start out with a collage of some of the unedited shots for

 Mosaic Monday at Mary’s Little Red House

Apologies for being a bit late - but maybe somewhere in the world it is still Monday?

 Monica

Magic Light

Magic light from the setting afternoon sun over the pavilions in the Town Park.