Triumph and a fond fare well

Where has the time gone?  Not that long ago, I was wondering if I could keep up with the challenge of posting a photo every day in November.  It was one of my very first challenges, along with Blogging101.  Well, the time has flown.  I have posted a post every day, enjoyed every minute, met some great people, been inspired by some wonderful photography and have given myself a proverbial “kick up the bum” to stop procrastinating and to start doing.  So a huge thanks to Photo101 and Blogging U, along with all my new friends.  I shall keep following you and look forward to seeing where this takes us all.

One of my early posts was about my lovely spaniel Flynn who I lost recently.  Looking through my photos, I came across this one, taken one Christmas after he had spent a very happy few minutes “opening his pressies”.. Not easy when you have fur and claws rather than fingers..especially as I never spared the sellotape!  I think the look on his face was one of Triumph..and the chew bone was thoroughly enjoyed.

Flynn licking his lips in anticipation

Glass

I love glass!  But this is a different take on glass.  I noticed that some of our locals had been taking “pot shots” at some of the windows in an abandoned building.  I don’t like destruction, but I do like patterns!

Destruction..but pattern creation

The Leibster Award ~ Gob smacked!

Wow!  What can I say??  Just 23 days after starting my blog, the lovely Bethany and Cathy at Photography with Words have nominated this blog for a Leibster Award 😀  Thank you so much.

The award is for blogs with less than 500 followers and is designed to be passed on after answering a few questions, so as part of my Blogging101 challenge is to post something different from my normal posts, this fulfils two briefs 😀

1.) Why did you decide to start to blog?

To record my self imposed challenges which hopefully would motivate me to complete them and to help me take better photographs

2.)What is your favourite memory?

Too many to choose from,  favourite memories are made every day

3.) Who inspires you?

People who follow their dreams

4.) What is your current goal in life?

I have to pick one??

5.) How would you describe yourself?

Do you know that feeling you get when you go to bed after the house is cleaned, the washing up is put away and the cushions are plumped up?  Nope..neither do I 🙂

6.)How much wood could a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood? well…talking of wood……

Esau Wood sawed wood.
Esau Wood would saw wood with a wood saw.
Esau’s wood saw would saw wood!
One day, Wood’s wood saw would saw no wood,
so Wood sought a wood saw that would.
Then, Wood saw a wood saw saw wood as no
wood saw Wood ever saw wood sawed wood.
So Wood sought the wood saw that sawed wood
as no wood saw Wood ever saw ever sawed.
Now Wood saws wood with the wood saw Wood
saw saw wood as no wood saw
Wood ever saw would wood saw wood.

7.) What do you do for Fun?

Anything creative, from drawing to gardening, design to reading, painting to photography

8.) What is your dream vacation?

Arctic Circle to see the Northern Lights

9.) What is your favorite Quote?

“To live is the rarest thing in the world, most people just exist.”  Oscar Wilde

10.) Do you enjoy running a blog?

Absolutely loving it!

11.) What do you plan to do now?

Right now? Continuing drawing Christmas cards for one of my other personal challenges ( too many cards, too little time!!)

Now it’s time that I  nominate blogs that I think are fantastic, but they must have less than 500 followers. I hope you all check out each others blogs as well as finding blogs to nominate, answering the questions and helping to encourage other small but perfectly formed blogs

brindille33

dkodesigns

My Daily Visual

Crafty Lady in Combat Boots

A more Creative me

Peace of summer

Hudman Honey Farm

Graydaysandcoffee

playingwithmyfirstdslrcamera

angleandviews

I had so  many other lovely blogs to choose from out there, but many of them already have way more than 500 people following them, loving the WordPress and blogging community 🙂

 

Landscape

This is a view of the rolling hills of Exmoor, on a walk that is just behind my house

View from the hills behind my house

Swarm

Luckily, somewhere in the back of my mind, I remembered that a group of jellyfish were called a “Swarm”!

Sorry about the quality of the photo though!

Taken in one of the big hotels in Las Vegas, a swarm of jellyfish in a big glass jar.

The swarm

Colour Pop

I am going a little bit “flora and fauna”  for this challenge!  😀  I think that this Six Spot Burnet on the Sea Holly really makes a statement!

Insect shows off in Wales!

 

I really hope I have identified both of these correctly 😀

Mystery

Where is she going? What is at the end of the alley?

 

 

Where is she going?

This is for the Photo101 challenge of the day..keeping up with it so far, and about half way through 🙂

Warmth

Fire in the Sky

Sunset over Exmoor

Todays challenge is “Warmth”

 

The Natural World

Well, I am totally spoilt for choice with this challenge!  Living on Exmoor , I am surrounding by glorious Nature every day.  Constantly changing with the seasons, constantly amazing me with new sights and sounds.

Local honey bee enjoying a sunflower

Hardy Exmoor sheep in the first snows

The view from my window

Pine cones in early Autumn

local woods in early Autumn

Rain dripping off an Autumn leaf

Wild Exmoor pony foal

Landmark

I live quite close to this iconic landmark.  Glastonbury Tor..legend has it that it is the famed land of Camelot.  Whenever I visit , there is always a sense of the mysterious.  It is difficult to take an original viewpoint as it has been photographed a million times, but a threatening sky and a bit of sepia processing hopefully gives a different take on it.

Camelot?