One of my favourite subjects is patterns of sunlight, shadow and trees.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
A Splash of Black+White
Landscape is a very accessible genre in photography – or doesn’t take much effort to recognise the shape of gentle rolling hills.
Tulips
Taken last night: a small cluster of red, yellow and yummy purple tulips in golden evening light.
Splash of Colour
A gorgeous display of colour – flowers catching the evening sunlight in the garden.
St Ninian’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Portpatrick
The building’s diminutive size lends a certain quaint charm to the idea of people coming here to worship, hence the vintage style processing on the photo.
Unfortunately, it also means the maximum seating capacity is only about 30.
The folks were pleasantly welcoming, but services are either Matins or stuck in the 1929 liturgy for some inexplicable reason – even worse than the 1970 version.
The most offputting thing is the fuss made (both written in the pew-sheets and announced) that there will be a `gathering note’ at the start of the hymns. What they actually mean is the building is too small for any kind of instrument of its own and the bought-in CD was made by a company that didn’t understand how to correctly accompany hymn-singing (with a proper introduction and consistent tempo, no such note is required). The resultant boom-box karaoke cacophany is just ghastly.
The church is part of a trio of charges around Wigtownshire. Services are Sundays at 10.30am if anyone’s interested.
Homely Goodness
This:
Large rhubarb plant
Turned into this:
Proto-crumble
I’m optimistic for rhubarb crumble later 🙂
Portpatrick Harbour
A slightly different view of the coastal town of Portpatrick, taken from just above the harbour at the foot of the Southern Upland Way. There’s even seats beside the steps to sit and admire the view 🙂
Sunshine
Today is not a day like this, so I thought I’d post this as a reminder of what gorgeous sunlight on a pleasant warm evening feels like.
Welcome to the garden
This evening involved planting carrots.
An Afternoon’s Changes
We spent the afternoon pottering around the garden.
First, the fencepost on which the external road-visibility mirror is mounted got repainted a nice shade of green:
We planted several tomatoes and made a start on some potatoes:
and some bedding plants – lobelia to flop over the sides of planters:
and some more petunias:
and there’s still a load of veg and herbs to be going on with:
Such domestication. The garden is gradually beginning to look more ready for whatever the summer growth-spurt brings!
Favourable Tree
There are several notable trees in the local woods – some for the slightly warped trunk shapes, but I like this one for the exuberant yet slightly spooky angles it throws its branches at.
Cosy
You can’t beat a roaring snug wood fire 🙂
Little Cloud
If there’s something not lacking in Galloway landscapes, it’s sky… Lots of sky… Big skies. Very big sky. And today is a particularly pleasant bright sunny day, yet not too hot, so all one has to do is look up and appreciate the clouds zipping by.