Sky Watch Friday

I took this yesterday evening at 8.15 pm. Moments before, the fiery colour covered most of the sky - but my camera was in another room!
The sun is setting earlier now.

See more skies at the Sky Watch site.

ABC Wednesday - G & Opening Doors - Day Three.

ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs Nesbitt, and has now reached the letter G in Round 3.

G
is for
GEODE

This picture shows a small geode and several slices. They are about one inch at the longest. A geode can look like an ordinary stone until it's cut open. The geode has been cut in half, and the surfaces polished. The thin slices have been polished on both sides for use as jewellery. If you want to read a bit more about geodes there is information here.

And for more takes on the G theme, visit the ABC Linky or the Anthology site.

And I have another G below.

And for Jientje's Opening Doors, I offer a gate.
This gate covers the old entrance to the courtyard behind the hotel in Dungloe's Main Street. It doesn't look as if it's meant to open, as it's been tied shut with rope!

Jientje always has doors worth seeing, and she has a Linky so you can find other posts with doors (does that make them door-posts?)
Pop along and have fun.

Opening Doors - Day Two.

Here's a small door for Jientje's Opening Doors challenge. I'm not sure if this one would be easy to open, though!

I found this behind a shop on Main Street in Dungloe. A lot of the original old barns and store-rooms still exist behind the modern businesses - which themselves originated from dwellings. We still have people's front doors opening straight onto the street. I suppose the houses will remain, as it's a lot easier these days to build on a new site rather than work around the severe limitations imposed by the small spaces available.

Any way, that's my door for today.
Jientje has many more.

Opening Doors - Day One

Today is the first day of Jientje's Opening Doors challenge.

It's been a busy weekend, and today as well, so I'm starting off with an easy option.
Here you have the door of my small garden shed, with the cat door beside it. Two doors in one photo. There's even the reflection of my legs in the window above the cat-flap

For many more doors, visit Jientje. Her challenge lasts all week.

Saturday PhotoHunt - Beautiful.

Last week, for wrinkled, I featured nasturtium seeds.

This week the word is
BEAUTIFUL

Last Wednesday we had a lot of very fine rain, and this is what the nasturtium leaves looked like.

I think that's beautiful!

For more takes on the theme, visit TNChick.

Happy Hunting!

ABC Wednesday - F

Today's ABC Wednesday, which was started by Mrs. Nesbitt, Features the letter F.

And today, for me,
F
is for
FRUIT

Specifically the Fruit of my son's pet ornamental crab-apple tree.

I took this photo yesterday of a few of the tiny dark fruits. You can see by the fine drops on the small fruits that the weather was typically wet!

This windfall was the largest fruit on the tree. It measured about 1 inch (2.5 cm) across. We brought it in to examine it.

Here it has been cut across. You can just see the tiny barely-formed seeds inside. Look at how red the flesh is! I wonder if many of the fruits will survive to grow to a useful size.

For more F words visit the other participants at the ABC Linky site, or at the ABC Anthology site.

Reflect This - Day Seven.

This is the final day of Quilly's Reflect This challenge.

For my PhotoHunt entry please scroll to the next post.

This is the glass door of the corner cupboard in our sitting-room.
This room also houses his'n'hers computers.

Reflected amongst my bric-a-brac you can see my husband working away on his computer. On the left of the photo you can see my computer wallpaper. You might even see me, concentrating hard, on the right of the photo!

This challenge has been great fun!

Thank you Quilly.

Saturday PhotoHunt - Wrinkled.

The Saturday PhotoHunt is hosted by TNChick.
Visit her for a load of great photos.

This week's theme is wrinkled.

I thought of a self-portrait.
Then I thought of a photo of my long-suffering husband.
Neither seemed right.

Then Youngest Son did some weeding, and ended up with a load of these.

Fresh Nasturtium seeds.

They look fairly wrinkled.

They'll look even more wrinkled after they dry out - but that's the case with all of us!

One day I must try pickling these. Capers (pickled nasturtium seeds) are used in such things as Tartare Sauce.

Happy Hunting everyone.

Sky Watch Friday & Reflect This - Day Six

Another economy post - two for the price of one.

A showery summer sky, for Sky Watch Friday,

reflected (for Quilly) in our car window.

Reflect This - Day Five

Quilly challenged us to find reflections this week.

This clock was a present from Second Son, and it stands on its own mirror.