Sunday Pic Spam - mostly green and blue...

[curiouswombat]

It has been a lovely week, weatherwise. Dry and sunny almost every day. Good camera-carrying weather. Th result is rather a surfeit of pictures - mainly sea, hills, paths, flowers, a stream; that sort of thing.

A lot of it is rather elvish, I think. So -

Actually, I am starting with some pictures which are not in any way elvish -

This tranquil picture is a yacht in Douglas Bay, earlier in the week.



And this, equally tranquil one, was taken on Thursday, on the coast near Port Soderick -



And then, I turned around, just in time to catch this -



One of our narrow gauge steam trains passing by.

This one was taken from the Cooil Road - just a nice pattern of fields and farming -



And this was taken from almost the same place - looking towards Crosby.



And now for something rather Elven. I like to think this could be a path in Ithilien, or maybe Rivendell...



And if you had just walked down it towards the camera you would have seen...





Closer look...





Yellow flags, just by a small pool. More yellow flags, later... but now we come to the stream.









Not content with that particular Elven glen, I also have pictures for you of another Elven pathway - I think, perhaps, a corner of the Great Greenwood - or possibly a corner of the Shire and a more hobbity pathway...



And these are some of the flowers along the verge...








Some beautifully delicate cow parsley -




Some wild roses, taken for bojojoti, but sadly I didn't get close enough for the flowers to really show - there was a ditch, and they were quite high up...





And - more yellow flags. It is a good year for them this year -









It is a beautifully green time of year. Although, as my mother pointed out, if the sunshine continues unabated things will start to look very brown instead... How did you guess she is of farming stock?

I have spent most of the morning singing loudly, in a big tent, with about 2,500 others - not my usual way of worship - but rather fun. There is a music festival on, and the organisers offered the use of their enormous tent to the combined churches of the island so that we could get together. Not something for every week - but it would be good if we could do it annually!

Then, this afternoon, I have been complaining of a sore neck and shoulders; until I realised it is the very discomfort I used to get when I went to rock concerts... I had been bopping as I sang!

Comments

[bedawyn.livejournal.com]

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That's worth knowing - I will look it up and perhaps suggest it - especially if it might save money in the long run. I work for the government so money is tight.