Blog 102

These photographs were taken during a visit to Birmingham Botanical gardens on Wednesday 29th December 2010. Some very exotic plants here and well worth a further visit at a different time of the growing season. Website here.

Exotic flowers

Naturally occurring patterns in bark, leaves and flowers.

Blog 101

These are from my morning walk yesterday, 31st December 2010. iPhoneography this time, almost monochromatic. The landscape covered in fog, not a lot moving about.

Blog 100

Saturday 25th December 2010, the table is set for seven today. The red wine is warming on the radiator, the white and rosé wines are cooling in the refrigerator. The turkey and potatoes are roasting and the christmas pudding is gently steaming on the cooker. The greens are prepared and ready to be cooked. The guests will hopefully arrive at 13:00 hours.

Blog 99

My granddaughter A, built these snowmen when she was here on Thursday 23rd December 2010, the photograph was taken this morning 25th December 2010 the warm looking snowmen in the photograph is due to the reflection of sunlight which is bouncing off the house wall behind me.

Blog 98

This is my take on the Lunar eclipse that took place in the early part of the winter solstice - Tuesday 21st December 2010.

The first image is time stamped 06:30:26 through to the last at 07:28:34 when the moon was getting very low in the north east.