Waiting

Waiting is hard.
Elder son and his lady are in hospital right now, waiting for their baby to be born. Labour is being induced, to prevent the problems that arose in March of last year which lead to an 8-month stillborn baby girl.
Phoning and texting are out, because it's a hospital.
So we wait.
It's hard.

Odd Shots On Monday

Last week. on ABC Wednesday, I posted the pottery seal head I was given for my birthday.
My second son suggested that I should display it in my small water-garden, which is beginning to grow quite well.
So my Odd Shot for this week is a small seal in a bowl, wondering how to find its way to the sea!

For more sensible Odd Shots visit Katney, who came up with the idea.

Have a good week.

Beautiful June!

Happy June everyone!

This is the month I become a grandmother at last!

I hope you all have a great month.

Saturday PhotoHunt - Self

This week's PhotoHunt theme is SELF,
which has been explained as
yourself or part of you.

I wouldn't want to give you pictures of parts of me - most of them don't stand close scrutiny these days! - and I didn't really want to post someone else's photo. So off I went looking for reflections.

I have two for you.

In my kitchen I found my stainless steel ladle.

And there's a mirror in the hallway.

That's me.

For a huge collection of interesting SELF photos, visit the one-and-only tnchick who had this great idea.

Happy Hunting!

ABC Wednesday - S

Time for ABC Wednesday again, and we've reached the letter S.

I thought I'd Share another of my birthday presents, so
S
is for

SEAL

When I learned some pottery-making, many years ago, we called these "pebble pots"
You make two bowl-shaped pots and stick them together, then add what decoration you wish.
This one has been adapted to form the shape of a SEAL's head, then glazed to bring out the large dark eyes.
Second Son thinks I should put it in one of my water-garden bowls!

(editing - Petunia asked about the size of my seal. I can hold it in two hands. It measures roughly 9.5cm high by 17 long. And no, I didn't make this, it's beyond my abilities!)

For more ABC Wednesday participants, visit Mrs Nesbitt's Place.
And have a Super Wednesday!

Cameraphone

I love my cameraphone. It's like having a pocket-sized 3.2 megapixel camera which just happens to double as a phone.

I took this picture while out (again!) with the dog.
My little camera let me get quite close to this bee on a red clover flower.

When I got home I cropped the picture to remove some of the background, and this is the result.

I know the quality isn't what it could be, but this is a mobile phone after all.

I like it a lot!

Odd Shots On Monday

Monday again.

I took most of yesterday off to work out a knitting pattern (more of that at another time) so I'm later than usual with this today.

The plastic flowers from last week disappeared yesterday, but just a few yards down the road I found this.

This sign is at the end of our entry road. In the manner of most such signs it stands over six feet high at the top.

What? You've never seen one decorated like this?

That's a kiddy's plastic bucket hooked over the top of the post.

For more interesting and unusual Odd Shots, visit Katney.

Have a good week.

Saturday PhotoHunt - Shoes

I've mentioned before that I love ear-rings.
I have a large number.
Recently I decided that I needed some way to store them so that I could see them easily and find the pairs I wanted .
I bought a jewellery tree to hang some of my dangly ear-rings.

Here it is.

Now, as it happens, this week's theme for the Saturday PhotoHunt is
SHOES.

What could be more suitable than my new jewellery tree?

For more SHOES visit TNChick.

Happy Hunting!

ABC Wednesday - R

ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs Nesbitt.

This week's letter is
R

R
is for
ROSEMARY

This is part of the Rosemary bush in my herb garden.

I love the smell of Rosemary.

R
is also for
Returns

MANY HAPPY RETURNS
to my dear husband
whose birthday is today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AILENI!

More Plastic Flowers!

The plastic flowers are proliferating.
This is part of the verge on the other side of the road from yesterday's post. This is a much wider strip of grass, which is now decorated with tufts of coloured daisy-like plastic flowers.

Badger can't understand why this bunch of roses smells of plastic rather than flowers and leaves. She has to check it out each time we pass.

I suppose it makes the area look cared-for.