My Month in Numbers

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

Gosh, March marched by didn’t it? In fact I seem to have lost the first week of April!
Looking back through my March photos we have had some really beautiful days, enough to make me feel that spring is here.
I am linking up with Julie Kirk with a few March memories collected in numbers.

31 days of Capture your 365 completed
Another 4 Lotta days this month
2 days away in the New Forrest
Numerous New Forrest Ponies seen and photographed
10 postcards posted
7 postcards received
10 Passionate Plum Nails with a butterfly on my ring fingers
108 fence boards now in place along the side of our garden
432 nails fired into the wood with a nail gun, a project much loved by Ben!
1 lunch with my friend
1 visit to the hygienist all by myself again
1 coffee and a mooch around the charity shops with another friend
1 lunch with my Wednesday group and
8 ladies turned up this month
1 coffee with another friend
I craft evening attended where I met
2 new crafty ladies
3 visits to the vet with my dog
122 pounds spent so far!!!!
We are on potatoes for a couple of weeks but she is worth it. Yes we have insurance but the excess is 100 pounds
Lots of sewing done including
10 ‘prayer flags’ with initials of the ladies at the craft evening on and now with a
J H & M embroidered on (Jill, Helena & Marsha)
2 cat pincushions made. 1 for M-i-l and 1 for a friend
1 Spotty Scottie dog pincushion made just for me
Thousands of starlings seen
100 years of Helen celebrated
and 1 mothers day celebrated with daffodils and thoughts of my own mother

I know lots and numerous and thousands are a bit vague but hey, it’s my list…

March was the month I finally got to see a murmuration of starlings. Quite by accident as I thought they only did their thing in the autumn months. We were on the Somerset Levels, on our way to the New Forrest for Helens 100th birthday party when a black cloud of birds flew across the road. We turned down a side road, parked the car and watched them. I was completely captivated.

Thank you Julie for this fun way of recording some details of the month.

Photo Heart Connection

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

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.

I have a number of pictures that I am particularly fond of this month. Mostly spring flowers, or the branches of the trees now coming into bud.

I discovered a new app for my phone called Waterlogue and that has given me so many lovely water colour painting images that I really couldn’t pick just one.

But this is the one I keep coming back to.

I saw a flower arrangement somewhere, I no longer remember, similar in structure, same shape bowl/vase but I had no idea what the flowers were. I got the vase in from the shed ‘just in case’ I found something suitable.

My son’s girlfriend, Lotta, was here last weekend. He bought her some beautiful red Gerberas.

They went to visit friends who are planning their wedding for later in the year. Gina, the bride, wants to collect and dry flower petals for her confetti. Lotta asked me if I would dry some for her to give to Gina, and could I take the petals from her Gerberas when they had finished. She would have gone home by then.

I duly pulled all the lovely soft velvety red petals off the flower heads and look what I saw.

The disc florets! I put them in the vase and they are now on a bright windowsill, making me smile every time I pass them.

I think of Gina collecting things for her wedding and memories of my own wedding flowers.
I think of Lotta and her much loved Gerberas, and wanting to be part of the wedding plans by collecting petals (now drying in my airing cupboard)
And I remembered that Theroux quote…It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Thank you Kat for Photo Heart Connection.

Five in Five

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Miriam Rogers

…on the fifth. Isn’t that a strange word to say and spell?

Linking with Sandie at Itchifingers

The Weston Wheel is back. It has open carriages this year and it is smaller but I still said I wouldn’t get on it.
When we went to the supermarket yesterday I said to husband that I needed to go somewhere to take pictures for five minutes. He drove into town: “You could take pictures here in the rain or go on the wheel, at least the cars have a roof (of sorts)” he said helpfully. How could I refuse?
I was fine as long as I looked through the lens. The car was too open, too small and too high! But I liked what I saw through the lens and even though it was raining it was bright and clear. The ride lasted from 14:15 to 14:20 (from my first to last picture) so as that’s ten minutes, out of the 70 pictures I took I have ten pictures to show you.