Project 64 is looking for Tumbleweed this week.

I am not overly fond of horses, I am afraid of them if the truth be known! I used to be afraid of dogs but having lived with two of them I realise that they are just daft smelly things that need lots of love. I wonder if it’s the same with a horse? Anyway I got a chance to touch a few horse creatures at the farm we visited recently and I really enjoyed looking at them. So there are two horses and one dog included in the search for Tumbleweed this week.

I loved the weeds tumbling all over this old door.

This was the first thing I saw when I saw this weeks colour reveal.

And this was the second! Not terribly exciting but they are ‘in’

I almost missed this wonderful project this week. I had taken and collected together all the pictures early and then promptly forgot to post!

There are fabulous interpretations of Tumbleweed over here.

This week Project 64is looking for red violet. This was the most difficult one for me so far. I just couldn’t seem to find anything that wasn’t just exactly right for magenta which we had a couple of weeks ago.
I went to a lovely town near to us with my friend today. I was clutching my little piece of card on which I had scribbled with the red violet crayon, the colour is so different on paper to the crayon. We had lots of fun looking for red violet in all the charity shops and the pretty little shops that sell all the things you never knew you needed and there they were calling to you! By the end of our afternoon we left a few bemused shop owners wondering what on earth a photography challenge about a colour could possibly be about! No I didn’t buy anything red violet in colour although I did buy something purple!

This week Project 64 is looking for pacific blue. I was having some real problems finding this colour until I looked much closer to me. On my desk was my beautiful Marimekko tray from Helsinki, a sewing box with thread, my new photograhy magazine, a little picture I have had for many years, And of course the gin! No, that was a lucky find in the cupboard! I might have one tonight to celebrate getting this project done although I may be too late to post.

Marimekko from Finland

Bombay Blue Gin. I am also going to Link this to Scavenger Hunt Sunday.. It is my favourite gin, perfect with a tonic, ice & a slice! Cheers

I noticed this little fella when I took the gin from the cupboard…

Now why didn’t I think of looking in my threads box first?

We went to this little harbour many years ago, it was just as we came through the Canadian border from New England.

Practical Photography Magazine for May 201. This month there is a great article called ‘funky focusing’ Play with focus until you create an impressionist image. Mmmm, I tried it but not sure if I have the courage to post, I’ll think about it.

This week project 64 is looking for magenta.

At last I got hold of a box of crayons so just can’t resist this.

I have been carrying my crayon in a scruffy little wallet, when I took the crayon out today to check a colour match, I realised that the little wallet is magenta! Still scruffy, but magenta in colour:)

I saw this Orchid in someones house this week and was amazed at myself for asking to photograph it!

A lovely embroidered box on my shelf

These little saxifraga look so pretty in their blue glazed pot but I was playing with my new lens and loved this shot.

I can’t resist a picture of a hyacinth, they look so different each day you look at them, I have lots in the garden but will buy some cut stems just to take their photo! this one is in my garden.

magenta hyacinth with a dusty rose texture

When this Weigela flowers it will be too pink for magenta and by the time my magenta one flowers we will be looking for Pacific Blue!

And there was me thinking I would never find anything in this colour.
There are some fabulous magenta pictures over here

I am going to try to link up with Project 64, although I am too late this week, week 14’s colour is burnt sienna.

This is my brothers new fire surround, isn’t it beautiful? and the colour of burnt sienna I think.

Another burnt sienna find at my brother’s.

This wind chime is mine!

I’ll use the wind chime photo in my project 365, it is so pretty and makes a lovely sound when I open the window that it hangs in. It also reminds me of a lovely holiday in Scotland with friends.