And Now For Something Completely Different...

[curiouswombat]

My favourite patch of colour in the garden, to brighten up what is a grey and gloomy morning here.



Caravaggio, for his many fans 😁



And a picture I took over in Peel on Saturday when I was going searching on the beach in the picture for scallop shells. As you can see the castle has the builders in!





The little cove at the back of the castle is called the Fenella Beach and is the best place I know to collect scallop shells - the shells from the local scallop fishing are dumped back out to sea but the tides and currents bring a lot of them back to this one small spot.

Why was I collecting scallop shells? I was leading a family service at church on Sunday where our theme was Pilgrimage. It took me about 10 minutes to collect the 40 or so needed to give one to each member of the congregation.

Comments

[kaishin108]

What a beautiful Pilgrimage you went on in Peel!

Hi Caravaggio! You look happy :)

[curiouswombat]

Peel Castle looks better from the front, to be honest, but I went mainly to go to the beach for the shells.

Caravaggio must have cycled hundreds of miles by now!

[kaishin108]

I will take any view of water, oh the lovely color of that water, and a beach. You are fortunate :)

[cmcmck]

I have a scallop shell on display from a beach up in Orkney!

[curiouswombat]

Another good spot for a pilgrimage!

[ysilme]

How awesome that you can find these shells in such abundance at that beach!
Love your snapdragons, too. I had them for the first time in my garden, planted in-between my veggies to attract pollinators, cover the soil and generally be pretty, and am still enjoying some of them; they're so pretty! In German they're called "Lion's yawlets", which is also a cute name.

[curiouswombat]

It is an odd effect of the tide - but useful to now if you want intact shells!

I love that name for them, too.

[teragramm]

Those snapdragons are beautiful! Snapdragons are one of my favorite flowers. Unfortunately because of all the heat and very little rain, mine died at the beginning of August.

[curiouswombat]

These ones are late flowering - I thought they were not going to, then we got rain in mid August and they sort of shook themselves and sprang into action - but they are on shorter stems than usual.

[dalmeny]

Lovely photos, thank you.

[curiouswombat]

Thank you - my pleasure!