Busy Bee

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art, flowers, garden, insect, nature, photoaday, Photography

“My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.” – Michelangelo

I spent 5 minutes following a bee in my garden this afternoon, it was fun, lets just say it was one very busy bee!

Relaxing in the garden

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art, flowers, garden, insects, photoaday, Photography, wildlife

“On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” – Jules Renard

It was a very early start this morning as my daughter headed off on a school trip to France and then I spent the rest of the morning (on my day off work) packing for my son to go on cub camp this evening. I know that my two kids are going to have a wild time in the outdoors for the next couple of days, so I needed to plan something just for myself and my husband.

As I sat in my garden planning and then with a cup of green tea and a good book, I noticed in the corner of my eye a squirrel on my bird feeders, as I looked up he caught my eye and then darted off on my wall. About 3 minutes later back he came only to notice me again and then proceeded to scamper off again. This happened about six times with him watching me all along, it really made me smile to watch him, as unlike most of the other squirrels that come into my garden he was just so shy.

It is amazing what you can hear when you just sit quietly outside, I really need to learn some bird sounds as I heard at least five different ones as I relaxed. I have recorded the sounds on my phone so when I have a free moment I will work out what they were.

Over the last week or so we have purposely left our lawn to grow, the buttercups and daisies were not far behind which gives me an easy place to get photos of insects.

Daisy chain fun

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art, flowers, garden, photoaday, Photography

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

With a lawn full of daisies, what better way to be wild today in the sunshine than make daisy chains sitting on the lawn 🙂

Garden Life

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art, flowers, garden, nature, photoaday, Photography

“Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen

After work and running my son to his football clubs I returned home at 8pm and decided I would spend 15 minutes in my garden to relax and collect my thoughts from the day.

It definitely worked and I felt so much better after my busy day, I felt so much calmer. Although I was a little frustrated with my photos as my focusing was a little off today for some reason, I sure hope it is not my lens!

Bring your own sunshine

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art, Buttercup, fine art, flowers, photoaday, Photography, quote, Sunshine

I am going to take a break from posting this weekend to spend some quality time with my family outside away from technology for all of us. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and see you again on Monday.

Another day, another flower

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art, fine art, flowers, nature, photoaday, Photography

Double beauty

I am starting to put together ideas for the 30 days wild challenge starting on 1st June, I am going to do something wild every day for a month – and make nature part of my everyday life. Come and join me, it is going to be fun.

A walk on the wildside

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art, fine art, flowers, photoaday, Photography

Bathed in sunshine

We had a lovely walk by the Basingstoke canal this afternoon, followed by lunch with my mother in law. Whilst sitting in the garden afterwards I gazed out towards the fields behind her, watching the horses trot by when I noticed lots of tiny wild flowers, it was just so pretty with them all bathed in the golden sunshine. I took a lot of photos, this being just one 🙂

30 Days Wild Challenge

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art, fine art, flowers, national trust, photoaday, Photography, wildlife

In search of bluebells

Recently a follower mentioned that I should set up a twitter account, prior to this, I brushed off the idea of getting an account because I figured that my life and photography wasn’t interesting enough for it. However, I’m starting to think that it would be a good way of keeping up with what is going on in the photography world and also seeing what other photogs I’m interested in have to say, and, who knows I may actually get something out of it and enjoy myself!?

For those who already have a Twitter account, what do you think, what advice can you give me?

Well I did it, I set up an account, so please come and follow me if you are on twitter too 🙂 While trying to customise my page and searching for pages to follow I stumbled across a challenge that I felt was just up my street. It was on the Wild Life Trust Site, called 30 Days Wild, basically it is a challenge to make room for nature this June – no matter where you are or how busy your life! Make June the month when you do something wild every day. Come and join me in this challenge, sign up and then do a random act of wildness each day in June, add the tag #30dayswild to your posts, come on it will be fun.

It’s all about the details

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art, birds, fine art, flowers, macro, nature, photoaday, Photography

Sitting proud

The theme this week for the weekly photo challenge is INTRICATE, we are encouraged to share our photographs on what the word “intricate” mean to us.

Watching and waiting

To me intricate is something that is very detailed or complex, so the feathers and details on these wonderful birds of prey perfectly illustrate the theme. I could then have gone on and posted lots and lots of the thousand of macro flower photos I have, each so intricate and detailed in their beauty. I decided to just post this one below as I loved the simplicity of the colour, the lines from the petals drawing my eye in towards the centre. I would love to know what you think, do these photos work for you?

It’s all in the details!

Black and White Photo 5 day challenge – Day 2

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art, black and white, fine art, flowers, photoaday, Photography

Merry Hearts Medicine recently challenged me to participate in the “Black and White Photo Five-day Challenge.”  It took me a while to respond but obviously, I have accepted, as I love black and white! 😉 What is this challenge? Well, the goal is to post one B&W photo each day for five days………Part of the fun is to nominate another blogger, one on each day…There is no pressure to accept this challenge after all it’s just for fun! 🙂  Today, I nominate SenK Photography, who shares his wonderful photography on his blog. Feel free to ignore this challenge if you do not wish to participate.  If you do decide to join in, I look forward to viewing your photos!   😀