ZIZO

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zoom-in-zoom-out-button

Week 19

Zooming in and out in my garden

ZI Zout nest

ZIn ZO nest

Not very exciting is it?
Now I would never make a wild life photographer, I just can’t sit still for long enough and then when something happens I miss it!

Here are the pair of Blackbirds that have their nest in the ivy.

Mrs Blackbird

Mr Blackbird

Fortunately they don’t need that arrow, they seem to know exactly which leaf is their entrance. I pin pointed it by the yellow leaf at 10 o’clock from the top left hand corner of the lamp. No matter how much I zoomed in I can’t see them, they were in there when I took the photo’s

Week 18

Zooming in and out in my garden again last week.
Next doors cat whose sole purpose in life is to annoy my dog!

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Waterlogue

Week 17

Zooming in and out trying to conquer my fear of moths. I rescued this from a vase of water. I was terrified that it would move but then realised that it must be waterlogged, so wouldn’t.

ZI Zout

Z In ZO

Week 16 Easter Week
Zooming in and out with my friends hens. This is Clem.

ZIZO out hen

ZIZO in hens feathers

So although I wasn’t able to link up during my blogging break, I still took the photos, ZIZO is part of my life now!

Thank you Helena

My Month in Numbers

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Linking with Julie Kirk with my April 2014 numbers.

MiN April 2014

57350 the number on a little scrap of paper I picked up off the floor
30 days of project 365 completed
8 ladies at lunch with my Wednesday group
2 Coffee’s with friends
1 lunch with a friend at a new place…very nice!
10 fabulous Ruby Nails with a butterfly alighting on a flower! That’s what Sarah (my nail technician) said anyway
2 visits to the dentist. Both appointments were 60 minutes long, that’s 120 minutes! I really think I have conquered my fear now.
2 days out with my friend to National Trust properties
7 Lotta days
25 years of Ben (seems like yesterday)
1 meal in our favourite restaurant in town
10 postcards made for iHannahs swap
8 of my own postcards sent out
I very beautiful EMPTY lone wasps nest found
5 of us at a family dinner on Good Friday, great food & lots of laughing
8 very beautiful Easter eggs in a box; complete with yellow rice paper straw!
from my husband,
17 days on a blogging break which I really enjoyed but I missed you all.

April, Ben’s birthday: always lots of reminiscing to be done, occasions remembered, tales told and re-told, and lots of laughing… poor Ben! This time his girlfriend, Lotta was here and he had the week off work so it was extra special. Easter came & went and Paul has been working away so a mixed month: nothing strange or startling, as my mother used to say.
The number on the little piece of paper that I found made me smile and think of Julie Kirk. She always has such interesting numbers to share so I thought I would include this, just because I can.
The chocolates are gorgeous, just two left!

Thank you Julie.

Photo Art Friday

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Bonnies theme this month is Collage.

I have always wanted to try to put two images of faces together as one and not really had much success so I tried again with an image of me and an image of my son wearing my hat (!)

MM or BS

I can see myself if I look for me wearing my hat, can you?

I started with me
MM or BS.M

Then added Ben

MM or BS.B

Then the texture

MM or BS.Texture

Then the blind

MM or BS.blind

The texture is called confetti but I don’t know where I got it…sorry

Left over Washi tape makes a nice collage too 🙂

Washi Collage topaz toned

Photo Heart Connection

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Kat Sloma hosts a wonderful practice each month called Photo Heart Connection.

Deepen the connection between your photos and your heart and soul by participating in this monthly review of your images, to find the one that best connects to your heart.

Every time I looked through my April photos I have been stopping at this one. Like a lot of you I look through my photos a lot, always looking for something for one meme or another. There are a few times I could have used the picture and I did use one of the series I took this day for a Capture Your 365 prompt.

I was driving home on the motorway and noticed a number of horses in a field that I hadn’t noticed before. I thought I might get some pictures for my stash. Horse pictures can be very useful! It took me ages to locate the field once off the motorway but eventually I was thrilled to see them in a field, right by the fence and being fussed over by a lady, their owner? I wondered.
Being the friendly sort I got chatting to her to learn that these five horses had been abandoned by? Who knows, plenty of guesses yes but…They had been there a few months apparently, local people had been bringing them water, this lady had bought hay for them. I felt sick to my stomach, I don’t really like horses because they scare me but I was so so sad and angry that someone could just abandon five horses like this…right on my door step. They were hungry, muddy and in need of some love. They were so friendly, letting me stroke them and talk to them.

I took some pictures of course. The next day I went to the wholesaler and bought a sack of carrots for them. Paul and I hand fed them. Paul is even more afraid of them than me it turns out. It felt good to conquer my fear.

I’ve really not felt like using the pictures but Kat’s practice has encouraged me to do so today.

I drove by the field on Thursday morning, they are gone. They were loved, lets hope they still are.

Phot Heart Connection April 2014