Scene Again

On my way home from a meeting the other day I stopped off at Coaley Peak View Point to take a picture of my favourite tree just at twilight. Here it is - somne of you will have seen photographs of it in many moods and weathers, I have been taking them for several years!

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( Cloud sequence under here! )

Okay, so this is a measure of my weirdness! 
Whizzing out to the garage to get something from the freezer this morning, I noticed a single leaf in one of the pots next to the door. An almost perfect skeleton leaf, a golden filigree! I was delighted. Yes, I know that's a bit strange but I love skeleton leaves, you can really see the exquisite structure of the leaf, they are so beautiful and this is nature's throwaway debris. So I rushed for the camera(s) and took a photograph. Or two. Okay, quite a lot of photographs. And then I wondered whether it would show up better on a light surface. Or on dark wood. Or on a log. So I experimented a bit. And here is my skeleton leaf - on various backgrounds...
Do double click on any of them that appeal for a closer look!

As I found it in the planter.                                                             On a marbled tile in my kitchen...

( The leaf wanders more under here... )

Cross-posted to my LJ!I've been enjoying msmoat's posts about running, so much and that peaceful time in the early morning sounds blissful, the world, mainly, to yourself and time to think . Lovely. And I know that I would benefit from more exercise, I really do tend to be a couch potato!  So when I woke up (not as early as you, I'm afraid,msmoat but early for me) just before seven this morning and spied a beautiful morning, I decided to take myself out for a walk. I left a note just  in case someone woke up and wondered where I was and set off with just my house keys, phone and, of course, my camera in my pocket!

Having been stuck in the office and in very frustrating meetings on a beautiful day the other day , I took myself for a stroll after work, just to enjoy the early evening air.

Prague - anyone for a little travelogue?  When did i ever resist the temptation to share my travels with you? So here goes!
Many piccies below the cut!
Cross posted to my LJ - apologies to those who get it twice!

My f-list have put up apparently cheerfully with being pic-spammed with photographs of my travels and of flowers galore. Now for something a little different!


  
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I am way behind on posting, but have visited several gardens recently of which I have an unbelievable number of photographs, so here goes for a quick catch up! Lots of piccies below!

Considering I rarely travel far from home, this week has been somewhat exceptional and I have clocked up 600 miles in less than a week. that's a lot for me! The first 200 was my trip to Heathrow, the second 200 my trip to Birmingham about which I posted yesterday, and yesterday we went to Dormy Lake to watch our daughter run in a 10km charity race. And yes, that is about 10 miles from Heathrow - that stretch of M4 is becoming familiar!

Seeing that rainbows are attracting attention, here are some of a rainbow which I took from my front door on 11th May 2007. On these, too, the sky under the rainbow seems to be a different colour! I think it looks as though the area underneath is inside a soap bubble!