Summer Palms

A couple of photos from the summer

 

A Palm leaf in colour...

 

...and black and white

Scottish Robin

A few photos of an accommodating Robin this summer...

 

...Singing in the tree next our chalet...

...enjoying a chip...

 

...and flying off.



 

London - December Sunrise

Photographs of London taken with my pocket digital camera this week.

 

The Shard and Thames bridges

 

Commuters on the Millenium Bridge

 

The sun behind The Shard

 

Blackfriars Station Roof and South Bank Skyline on a misty morning (through a dirty window so sharpness is not there)

 

The Strata Tower appearing out of the mist

Scotland - Abandoned and Derelict Boats

The harbour at Old Dornie, just north of Achiltibue.

 

A small number of boats, possibly old fishing boats were pulled out of the water and were decaying.

 

I know next to nothing about boats, but I suspect that this upturned hull needs a little more than a few replacement strips of timber before it is seaworthy again.

 

Possibly not quite gone?

London - Borough Market and nearby

Photos from March this year.  The area around Borough Market near Southwark Cathedral

An Oyster Bar, opposite the market

Early morning sun catching the street lamps outside the Bunch of Grapes, a Victorian pub, the modern Shard in the background

A colourful display of vegetables

Scotland - Grey Lag Geese & Sunset

These Grey Lag Geese were found down a single track road overlooking Fangamore Bay to the north of Tarbet.  What a  great setting and such change from those more commonly found in our parks and fed by the public.

A dramatic sunset later that evening at Ardmair

Scotland - Lobster Pots Birdlife

Again from June trip to the NW of Scotland

The quay at Tarbet where you catch the boat to the bird island of Handa.

 Lobster pots where stacked in the car park by the quayside.  I was amused by a busy and noisy family of House Sparrows which were perching on and in the pots (safe from predators?).

The abstract shapes and lines of the stacked pots.

A female or juvenile Linnet (I think) taking advantage of a pot as a perch

Scotland - Memories of June

It is November and I am still going through the photos taken in Scotland in June. Various photos taken towards the end of my break.

Hebredean Sheep on the road in Assynt with Suilven in the background.

A Fritillary resting on the heather - I am afraid I can't tell whether this is the Small Pearl Bordered variety, or the rarer Pearl Bordered species

A view of Ardmair

The vivid blue of a very small flower in amongst the heather

Scotland - Loch Assynt clouds and light

A few landscapes of Loch Assynt in June on a cloudy day

 

A patch of sun lights up the middle distance

Ardvreck Castle



The light coming perhaps

 

Autumn Spiders

More Spiders in my Bedforshire Garden this autumn

 

A spider in its water droplet covered web







 

A larger specimen

 

Another spider making repairs





London - Misty October Thames

Photos on a misty morning on the River Thames

London Bridge and the Shard disappearing into low cloud 

 Tower Bridge and the Pool of London

South Bank in mist

Autumn Spider, water droplets and a Fly

A spider on a fading rose in my small Bedfordshire garden at the end of October

There had been rain overnight and the suns rays were caught by the water droplets on this leaf.



Then amongst the water droplets, I spotted a fly waiting for the sun to warm it up







London - Sky Umbrellas in Autumn

A selection of photographs of a yard between Stoney Street and Park Street behind Borough Market.

 

Colourful Umbrellas...

......reflected in a puddle with autumn Plane Tree leaves.





 

A visitor admires the spectacle....

 

....missing the almost abstract reflections

 

...but enjoying the umbrellas above.





Scotland - Houses with Views & Unusual Sheep Family

Houses with wonderful views

Overlooking Cul Mor, Stac Polly and Cul Beag and Assynt

The house sitting under Quinag

And an unusual family of sheep sitting on the beach at Clashnessie

Scotland - Beautiful Clashnessie Bay Pt 2

 

More views of the beach in June

 

Rockpool, sea and sky

 

Sea Snails brushing aside the thin coating of sand on a rock in a pool, leaving a trail of their trips.

 

The intricate pattern of ripples of a shallow stream crossing the sand frozen by the camera