…in the park with my telephoto lens.

Now that I come to post this I realise I should have something to show you just how tall this pine tree is, but I forgot, I was just so amazed to see a football so high up. I hope the person who kicked it up there is playing for some team or other, he/she certainly has a fierce kick!
I also just noticed the butterfly on the right hand side of the picture.

I was watching a family way down the hill in the park having so much fun with their football.

Note to self: Think about showing scale in a photo.

Thank you Helena, in Ottawa?

…and every which way at this amazing Gourd.
I saw it in a florists yesterday, she called it ‘Aladdin’s Turban’ I loved it and bought it so that I could take some pictures of it.

Thank you for this lovely meme Helena.

So, do you love it or hate it?

…in my garden today. No rain! We had high winds but a fabulous sky and bright sunshine.
It is such a welcome relief after ‘the great storm’ which actually wasn’t that great here.
I hope you were warm and dry if it passed your way?

Looking up at the Cherry in flower again! and down at the Bay about to flower in November? Nature’s gone mad.

Thank you for this lovely meme Helena.

…by the Houses of Parliament in London

A guest post!
My lovely husband sent these pictures from his phone while he was out of the office for lunch this week.

He found it incongruous to be sitting on a bench with two very nice and very funny homeless guys looking over at the seat of power in this country.
They didn’t comment when he took the picture of the Houses of Parliament, I suppose everyone does that but they wanted to know why he was taking a picture of the pigeon. He told them it was for me, that I took pictures looking up and down each week. They began to laugh. One said, about the other, “Oh! he looks up and down a lot too, up at the stars at night and down at the pavement in the morning”.

I would have avoided the men but my husband engaged with them, they talked to each other and they made him laugh especially when he asked them where they would sleep tonight. Apparently they were fed up with the Dorchester and the Savoy, they thought they would find somewhere else tonight….

“To define is to limit.” ~Oscar Wilde

…in the garden, in the rain

Honeysuckle Blossom in the middle of October!

but as its raining it keeps things in perspective

Honeysuckle Leaves and a bonus bejewelled spiders web

Thank you Helena