Lingering Look at Windows

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Following a visit to the coast last weekend, my windows for the Thursday Lingering Look at Windows challenge set by Dawn at The Day After are from Lyme Regis in Dorset, England. More of England’s finest, I hope you will agree!

Quite a mix here, from beach huts to windows set in a thatch roof, and some windows with interesting lattice work….The day I took these, I had my sights set on some images of the coast, but the weather turned out gloomy, and the only thing for it was to get in close for some detail. Below are the results….

Town Council windows
A thatch hat….
Windows at Lyme museum
Curtains on the beach
Blue Shutters at Lyme

Weekly Travel Theme: Flowing

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Ailsa at Where’s my Backpack? has us finding images that say Flowing for this week’s Travel Challenge. I’m off to Italy, more precisely Tuscany, for an image from the area south of Siena known as the Crete Senesi…..I fell in love with this region, for the landscape, the towns and villages, the people, the food….and the wine!

As ever, I’m trying to come up with something a bit different, giving myself an extra challenge-within-a-challenge, as i search through my archives.

The grass here seems to flow over the contours of the land….what do you think?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

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For this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge we have been asked to come up with images that demonstrate Curves.

I have just one image for this challenge, as I have seen some great railway tracks, banisters, curves in nature etc etc elsewhere…..this cheeky little statue says curves with a capital C to me….

Cheeky Statue

Cheeky Statue

 

Weekly Travel Theme: Peaceful

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Two posts for today, a bit late for both! Well, this one is in answer to Ailsa’s travel challenge over at Where’s my Backpack?

For my take on Peaceful, I am posting several watery images. Something about being near calm or rhythmic sounding water, don’t you think? The first image was taken on a trip in Ireland some years ago. Then there are images from Italy, Greece, France and one from Devon.

The one from Greece was taken many years ago on a trip to the Greek Island of Crete. We had set off from Elounda in the early hours of the morning to get across to the west of the island to walk the Samaria gorge…this image is of the light on the sea at that time of the morning….very calming. The one in Devon was taken looking down on the beach, and shows cliffs, beach and sea at Sidmouth. I love to sit by the sea and hear the rhythm of the waves on the beach, can sit there for ages. The one from Italy is a re-posting of an image from a few weeks ago, but thought I could sneak it in as it fits.

As ever, comments are most welcome, and I will reply!

Beach in Ireland
Boat at le Crotoy, Somme, France
Sidmouth, Devon
Bagno vignoni on a late Spring day
Early morning on Crete

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

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We’ve been asked to come up with an image that says ‘Fleeting’ for this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge.

I am just getting this in, in the nick of time before we roll over to next week’s theme tomorrow! I have been preoccupied with family issues, but suddenly realised I had an image, taken last weekend, that would fit the bill….enjoy!

This cyclist moved into the frame as I was taking my shot of the pastel beach huts, how considerate of him, gave me a different image!

As ever, please let me know your thoughts!

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Lingering Look at Windows

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I am late with my post for the challenge over at Lingering Look at Windows this week, as I have been without Internet access….so here goes, better late than never!

For this week, I have some images from the Surrey hills, around Box Hill. I was out for a stroll with some friends, luckily had the camera with me as I came across some interesting windows. At the unmanned station, there were some windows that had been bricked in, but still with recognisable apertures, so I thought they would count!

As usual, click on an image to see the slideshow…

I love feedback, so let me know what you think!

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

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Take a look at this Week’s Weekly Photo Challenge for lots of great images of signs..

Just one from me this week, and you need to know the context…there are no cattle on Lanzarote, but nevertheless I took this image of a roadside sign (from a moving car, hence poor quality) as I was being driven around the island:

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Presumably the highways agency there have a sense of humour…

Weekly Travel Theme: Costume

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Over at Where’s my Backpack, Ailsa has set us our Weekly Travel Theme: Costume. Initially flummoxed, I realised that in my travels I have seen a few events with people in traditional costume….so my image (no slideshow today) is of the Tanjaua, a ploughing festival in a small village, Horteni, in Maramures, Romania. It is an ancient agricultural custom which celebrates the first villager who comes out to plough. He is escorted by young men who bear a brightly decorated traditional contraption which I believe is created from wooden beams used to put cattle in yoke.
It made for a very lively morning out, with villagers and people from the surrounding area turning out in large numbers, many of them in traditional costume.

Tanjaua, traditional agricultural festival in Horteni, Maramures

Tanjaua, traditional agricultural festival in Horteni, Maramures

Lingering Look at Windows

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Well, it’s Thursday, and time for Lingering Look at Windows, the challenge set by Dawn over at The Day After….click on the link to see more of this week’s entries.

I have a varied bag of windows collected over the years during visits to France for this week’s entry…..everything from Chateau windows, shutters, a restaurant with toy bicycle, teddy bear and other animals, and a gift shop window with storks (toys of course).

As usual, click on one of the images to see the slideshow…and please leave your comments!

Stuffed toy Storks ardorning window in Alsace
Chateau windows
Restaurant windows, Northern France
Blue shutters
Windows in Pont Audemer, Normandy

Well, it’s Thursday, and time for Lingering Look at Windows, the challenge set by Dawn over at The Day After….click on the link to see more of this week’s entries.

I have a varied bag of windows collected over the years during visits to France for this week’s entry.

As usual, click on one of the images to see the slideshow…

Italy Less Trodden….Part 2

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For this post, I am putting up some images of one of my favourite places..the medieval hamlet of Bagno Vignoni, in Tuscany, Italy. It used to be well off the beaten track, but I think it is becoming more ‘known’ now.

I first came across this place some years ago as a result of watching Andrei Tarkovsky’s film ‘Nostalgia’…in which another øf my favourite places also appears (but I had already visited this in the early ’90s, the great Gothic ruin of the Abbazia di San Galgano).

The best time to visit is late or early in the year, when the mornings are cold and the steam rises up from the sulphur bath that is the village square. A friend and I stayed early one March, arriving in the evening of a very dismal day,and were greeted with an almost surreal sight of the hamlet in sulphurous mist. But we had the most marvellous place to stay, the Locanda del Loggiato right in the square. On that wet, cold evening, the welcoming fire in the lounge was just what we needed. I got up at 6.30am the following morning in order to get some photographs….keen, or what?

Early morning in March, Bagno Vignoni
steam off the sulphur bath, Bagno Vignoni
Looking over the sulphur bath, Bagno Vignoni.
Bagno vignoni on a late Spring day
Evening at Bagno Vignoni