I left some Caribbean beach between my toes for the flight, the sea in my hair for two days and the Virgin holidays luggage label is still on the rucksack.
I have shells on the dressing table and pieces of washed up coral and I’m wearing the weird shell, local rock and local wood bracelet that Helenora the lady who sat on the beach stringing beads, made for me. Continue reading “Watery paradise”
A slow start but a fine group of entries.
I used the word “evoke” in setting the competition and just revisited one of the word’s definitions
“To produce or suggest through artistry or imagination a vivid impression of reality”
Stark though it is, Soutie’s photo of the new home for Autism Eastern Cape produced in me a vivid impression of the realities of the ongoing struggle in this area of care. A triumph of function over form, we see not a homely thatched cottage, but bricks and iron fences. Behind the facade, inside the doors lies the reality, hope and comfort for many.
Thanks Soutie you certainly raised my awareness.
The photo competition closed officially yesterday lunchtime, but given the fact that OZ had said he would be posting something and is currently suffering Lupine Influenza I thought I’d give him some leeway.
Sadly he has not posted, and the number of photos submitted remains low: only four this time.
(Have I somehow jinxed it all by setting such defined parameters? Maybe it was the time frame? (I had said only photos taken during the period of the competition – was that too harsh)
Anyway, Continue reading “DECISION TIME – can wait no longer”
…. Thursday is the last day of the current photo competition
Please follow the link and post your entry into comments.
… there’s just a week to go for submissions on this photo competition. As there has been only one contribution so far you stand an excellent chance of a place!
Cape Fear, the name is enough to scare you, why call it that unless someone was really scared by it, anyway we have to get around it to head north so off we go.
It was a nothing, the sea was almost calm and the wind and tide were both with us, about two hours in open water and then back into “The Ditch”
Continue reading “Fear This?”
I wrote about the swift boxes in October and now have photos of the swift boxes in situ. (Up under the eaves are the prefabricated house martin nests too, with some evidence of occupation.)
The theme for this next competition is ‘The Force of Nature’ – the rules for this one are:
Here they are Val….
Boadicea's Chariot 
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