365 project, Week 35

[curiouswombat]

It occurred to me this week that it is going to be harder to take pictures on my way home from work, now that the clocks have gone back. It is dusk before 5pm now - so under the cut for this week are

a selection of pictures, mostly not in bright day light!

I came out of the hospital as usual after my clinic last Monday and realised that the clocks having gone back the day before meant that by 5.15pm it was early evening, not late afternoon. The moon was rising over the car park -



Tuesday I also only got the camera out as I finished work - but this time I called into the Garden Centre and discovered that they had skipped Hop-tu-Naa/Halloween and gone straight to Christmas! They always have lovely things for Christmas - this little owl caught my eye -



Wednesday was a bit blowy and I decided to pick those red roses from the front garden before they got blown to pieces. Here are four of them, between two of my small candle holders, on the mantlepiece - they are beautifully scented.



Thursday - I was driving along a small road and was stopped by the ubiquitous traffic lights and road works. But the sign to explain what was going on amused me -



I love the idea of the Water Mains needing Rehab...

Friday evening I again took the picture about 5pm, as I was about to head home from a clinic in Ramsey - this is a real mackerel sky, isn't it? Oh - and look Quinara - sheep...



Yesterday was, of course, Halloween, Hop-tu-Naa, Samhain, whatever you celebrate, and whether you see it as the turning of the year or the point where the wall between the living and the dead is thinner than usual, a night out of the ordinary, anyway. This is a picture of some of our 'night visitors' -



They weren't necessarily, the ones with the best costumes, and they didn't have a lantern between them - but it was the clearest photo!

Today it is raining. It was windy and wet over night, with an onshore wind - so there is a lot of seaweed on the beach - I went for a walk down there on my way home from Church...



And now - I'd better go and out some washing on, and then have a look at the Christmas cakes that are maturing upstairs; see if they need any more rum or whether they are looking and smelling OK, as we are now into November.

PS - for anyone who is, like me, watching the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on TV - aren't the pits weird, but good?

Comments

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

The time changed here last night. It's been getting dark by 6, so now 5 will be dark. I'm always kind of sad when that happens!

I love that sea weed picture. Of course I'm always fascinated by seaweed!

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

That's lovely, isn't it? I can almost smell the cold salt tang on the breeze *feels homesick*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've just added another seaweed picture in comments...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Just for you - also taken this morning -

(http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/curiouswombat/?action=view&current=seaweed2.jpg)

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Pretty! I like the contrasting textures. We don't have that coral-looking kind here!

[gillo]

I love the shapes seaweed twists itself into. Warwickshire is double-landlocked, so it's not something I get to see every day!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am so used to seaweed that I hardly notice it. It piles up after any high tide or heavy swell - it more or less had to wrap itself around my ankles before it occurred to me to take a picture of it...

So showing it to you is one of those little perks of LJ.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

That is a very clever owl.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's lovely, isn't it?

He wasn't alone, either -

(http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/curiouswombat/?action=view&current=Christmasbird.jpg)

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

The owl ornament looks rather startled... I wonder what he's sitting on *g*!!

It really is getting dark quickly here too. Today it's very wet and has been dark all day!!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's dark now - well dark grey anyway, and still damp. I suppose it does get us in a wintry mood ready for Christmas...

[quinara]

Sheep and a skyscape?? It think that might be my favourite picture EVA. :D

(Though the seaweed and the roses are both very pretty too.)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sort of shadow sheep, rather than ghost ones! I do like a good sky, too.

[cbtreks.livejournal.com]

It always makes me smile to see such photos of such pretty flowers from you and debris4spike so late in the year. Not what you see here in northern Indiana!

We just turned our clocks back last night. DST starts earlier and ends later every year, it seems.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

There are still quite a few flowers in my garden - geraniums and fuchsias hanging on and defying the incoming winter.

[perpetua-redux.livejournal.com]

I so look forward to your photos! Thanks.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - it is really, really, my pleasure to share.

[gillo]

Love the roses and the seaweed. Both help keep winter a little more at bay.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

For me, I associate seaweed with winter - it takes a good swell to pull the holdfasts from the sea floor and wash it up onto the beach.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Love the owl's "hair."

I suppose the Water Mains needs to enter a 12-step program to learn to leave the hard stuff alone. Water only, Water Mains!

Aren't those roses romantically beautiful!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The little owl is lovely, isn't he?

The sign for the water mains made me think of a twelve step programme too!

I don't often bring any of the roses in - but these have scented the room beautifully, and even the bud at the back opened - actually the petals on the others are falling now and so I've just put them out in the compost - only the bud remains, now fully open.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

What a cute owl!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think I shall have to start exporting them to my friends in America!

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate it when the clocks change and it's dark so early? And having commented upon how warm it was yesterday, today winter has arrived.

It must be lovely to just be able to stroll down to the sea like that.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The dark sets in before I'm home most days now until spring :~(

It is a wet, grey day, today - but not really all that cold - just gloomy.

You know I never really think about the fact that I always have the sea so near, until someone mentions it, and I realise how lucky I am.

[green-maia.livejournal.com]

I love these - and all of your photos!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it's nice to know that you enjoy them.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

That owl should be sitting in the tree in your first picture.

And that seaweed - I can just feel it squelching between my toes, bringing back memories of the Gower coast when I was little.

That pit lane was incredible - and fraught with danger - I loved that the commentators likened it to coming out of a multi storey car park.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

You're right - he should be in that tree!

Seaweed is such interesting stuff if you take the time to look at it - which I have to admit to doing only rarely!

And yes - it really was just like a multi-storey exit, wasn't it? Good Grand Prix, too.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I hope you took that little owl home! And the sky is incredible in that moon shot.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I didn't take him home - but I might be tempted to go back and buy him after all...

I was surprised, in that first picture, at just how high the moon was.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

What gorgeous photos.I especially liked the sky and the seaweed.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I love the look of the sky when it is like that. The seaweed is remarkably photogenic when you really look at it - something this project encourages me to do!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's not very easy, taking a photo with the Moon in it!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I was surprised how high in the sky it was - although it did seem to be sort of lurking suspiciously.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's hovering over my shoulder, thinking, "How can the lunatics mess with Mark *this* month?"

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hmm - maybe you're paranoid - or maybe the moon is out to get you...

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

As the old timers say, it's not that I'm paranoid -- it's just that everyone is out to get me.

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

Very nice pictures.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you, it's my pleasure.

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

I love the colours on your beach pictures. Lovely.

And I totally fail to see any sheep in your mackerel sky picture -apparently these are sheep that have to be taken on faith.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Sea weed is really quite colourful when you get down to it.

There are, really, five or six sheep there - I think it depends on how bright your monitor is, S2c couldn't see them either.

I thought it was so dark that the land would just be a totally black outline, so was quite surprised to see that the sheep are still visible on it in my screen.