Last week Week 25 I was zooming in and out up at the forge in the old quarry. Unfortunately for us it was closed but for Helelna’s meme I made my ZIZO of the lovely Sunflower that we had wanted to see up close & personal. Hooray for photo editing.

This week, who can believe that we are half way through the year with week 26! I have been Zooming in and out around my Philadelphus. Still trying to make the perfect picture.

I can’t resist another look through my lens at the beautiful blossom on this lovely shrub. It has been wonderful this year, I wish I could let you breath in the orange fragrance; it just says ‘summer evening’ to me.
This afternoon I wasn’t the only one enjoying the plant. I noticed a couple of ants running up and down with no apparent agenda, a few bees laden with pollen and a few thousand black fly just sitting there devouring a stem! I could have done with zooming out a bit more for these! The one little lady bird that I spotted will have her work cut out when/if she sees them!

Don’t you just love the bees with their heads right up inside the flower?

This lovely meme is Helena’s. I wonder what treasures I’ll find over at her blog this week?

Week 24 of Helena’s weekly meme.
This week I have been zooming in and out at Clematis and Lilac at my friends house.
I absolutely love the colour of this lilac, kind of magenta, just gorgeous.

Thank you Helelna

Week 23
I am linking with Helena’s lovely weekly meme.

This week I have been Zooming In and Out (very carefully) in the rain, in my garden. I was trying not to fall and trying to keep the camera dry but I do love photos of raindrops (on roses and whisker…) sorry.

I went out to tea this afternoon and saw this very bedraggled peacock, not a great photo, the peacock was running, it was raining and the glass window I was looking through was very old but we had fun watching him and I do like the blur…

The last pictures is processed with Waterlogue, quite appropriate I thought!

I am looking forward to seeing some ZIZO’s from around the world over here this week.

Thank you Helena.

Week 22

I’m late linking and visiting for Helena’s lovely meme this week, I have been nursing a sore throat and all that comes with it. The family liked the day of the lost voice though!

My ZIZO is a bit different this week because I have a little story to go with my pictures.
I’m thinking of Cheri Andrews and her Kindness project for this year.

So, we were in London over the Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday we went off to visit the Globe Theatre, something I had wanted to do for ages. It was raining so an inside visitor attraction was perfect.
We got there to find that there were no tours today because there was a performance on!
We decided to come back tomorrow and off we went.
I was taking photographs of the outside of the building in complete awe. The buildings either side of the theatre are very modern or glass structures and then the wonderful white-beamed circle that is the Globe theatre, sits right in the middle of them.
Paul & I were chatting about returning tomorrow and maybe one day to see a play when I was tapped very gently on the shoulder. I turned around to see a very beautiful Japanese face almost entirely covered by the hood on her green waterproof coat. She was asking if we would like to see the play.
Thinking the worst I said NO, thank you for asking but no. I turned to Paul. She tapped my shoulder again. “Please”, she said. “This is not a trick, there will be no charge. My friend and I have to go now, we have tickets for the play. The best seats in the house but we cannot stay. Would you like our tickets?”
She looked so beautiful and was almost pleading us to take the tickets from her.
I said, “yes of course, I don’t understand but I would love to go into the theatre”. She handed me her ticket, her friend handed her ticket to Paul.
As I thanked her again and gave her a hug, she said, “hurry now, the second part is starting soon.”
We hurried, up the steps and through the gates, the attendants looked at the tickets and said, “Over to your right, up the stairs”. We wiggled our way up and along very narrow walkways until we saw our block. Our seats were right in the front row, The girl was right, the best seats in the house!
As the players came on stage the rain stopped and the sun began to shine. It was so bright and so hot we had to shield our eyes to see the performance.
It was truly wonderful, to see the play, (the second half of Anthony and Cleopatra). To be in The Globe Theatre so unexpectedly was amazing! We loved it. We want to return.
There are truly wonderful people in this world and I am honoured to have met two of them last Saturday.
Thank you Cheri for your prompt last week about writing about some kindness that you come across other wise I wouldn’t have told you about my adventure.
So my Zoom Out is the outside of the theatre that I was looking at so longingly and the Zoom In’s are the inside of the theatre from our seats, right in front of the stage.

Thank you Helena.

Week 21

I’m not even going to think about the fact that 20 weeks of this year have passed, I’m just enjoying the fabulous weather we are having and that I can sit in the garden watching my blackbirds.
There must be chicks, although I can’t hear them, both birds are busy all day long feeding.

I thought you would like to see Mrs. Blackbird.
Now, she comes into the garden straight onto the old wheelbarrow on the messy side of the garden, where she can clearly see her font leaf door, pauses just a little and then flies straight in…no messing about with her, get those mouths fed!

This is Helena’s wonderful weekly meme.

Thank you Helena.