Sunday Pic Spam.
20 Mar 2011 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatJust a few pictures today - some of the farm that our Christmas goose comes from and a couple of attempts to show brambles, so that Julia and I can compare the versions found here and in Washington State.
There are definitely signs of spring around - I had thought to go out with the camera this afternoon - but it is grey and wet today, so I didn't bother!
This is a very typical Manx whitewashed stone farmhouse. This particular one is Ballakilley (Church farm in English) in the village of Bride. I see it every time I go to Mum's - it is about 30 or 40 yards from her bungalow. And it is the farm where she buys the annual goose for us for Boxing Day.
Slightly closer so you get more house and daffodils and less trees -
You can certainly see that spring is springing.
These two pictures are just of a bit of boggy ground a couple of miles from the village - I just liked these -
Although I had actually parked the car there to try and take a picture of some of the brambles. It is difficult to really get the idea, but our brambles mainly grow as hedges - they are then cut back on both sides to keep them in some sort of order. This picture shows from about my head height up to a point about 10ft above the road that I'm standing on. The brambles grow in amongst the ivy and up onto the top of the sod hedge.
This is taken a bit further along, showing how close I am to the road - and how the bramble branches are heading up towards the bushes and small trees on the top of the sod hedge -
You can see why, when I was a child, my granny always insisted on taking a stout walking stick when we went to pick blackberries because, of course, the best berries, what she always called the smeir grianey (sun blackberries), grew above easy reach.
A long time till blackberrying season though -let's not wish our lives away.
And a final sign of spring - the first MotoGP of the season is on TV - hurrah!
There are definitely signs of spring around - I had thought to go out with the camera this afternoon - but it is grey and wet today, so I didn't bother!
This is a very typical Manx whitewashed stone farmhouse. This particular one is Ballakilley (Church farm in English) in the village of Bride. I see it every time I go to Mum's - it is about 30 or 40 yards from her bungalow. And it is the farm where she buys the annual goose for us for Boxing Day.
Slightly closer so you get more house and daffodils and less trees -
You can certainly see that spring is springing.
These two pictures are just of a bit of boggy ground a couple of miles from the village - I just liked these -
Although I had actually parked the car there to try and take a picture of some of the brambles. It is difficult to really get the idea, but our brambles mainly grow as hedges - they are then cut back on both sides to keep them in some sort of order. This picture shows from about my head height up to a point about 10ft above the road that I'm standing on. The brambles grow in amongst the ivy and up onto the top of the sod hedge.
This is taken a bit further along, showing how close I am to the road - and how the bramble branches are heading up towards the bushes and small trees on the top of the sod hedge -
You can see why, when I was a child, my granny always insisted on taking a stout walking stick when we went to pick blackberries because, of course, the best berries, what she always called the smeir grianey (sun blackberries), grew above easy reach.
A long time till blackberrying season though -let's not wish our lives away.
And a final sign of spring - the first MotoGP of the season is on TV - hurrah!
