I Saw an Old Lady Swallow a Fly
This spider was living on the basket ball hoop earlier this summer. You can tell our son had moved out, as the spiders have taken over. I surprised her swallowing fly-innards soup. I think it’s a fly, it might well be a wasp though.
So, this is another anniversary of sorts. Two years ago today I started blogging daily. It was not a plan, it is not a plan now either. It just happened, and it just continued. Last year on this date I gave my self permission to not post daily, but never took up the offer. This year I repeat the offer, and think it might be more likely that my posting frequency will drop since I will be starting a different job. I expect that to be quite disruptive to my personal time now and then. We will see. It is too much fun doing this, and interacting with my great community of readers, for me to just slip away and forget you all, so I don’t think that is likely to happen, and besides I am not giving myself permission to do that.
Fishy Reflections
Nope, this is not my thoughts on fish, or any other kind of fishy thoughts. This is another reflection from the Classic Boat Festival of a couple of weeks ago.
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The Voting
I have a photo short-listed at The Digital Lightroom. I won’t say which is mine, but will urge all my readers to check out the link and vote for your favourite shot.
These ‘competitions’ serve useful purposes and I think it is good to encourage them by participating.
These are the 10 shortlisted pictures in the DLR Lead in Lines Photography Competition once again. The response has been brilliant. It just gets better and better and harder and harder to choose just 10 images from all those entered. You now have the even tougher job to choose just one image from the 10 excellent photographs listed below.
A quick note, this competition was started because we wanted to celebrate the excellent photography we see on a daily basis here at WordPress. We didn’t want the competition to be about the blog or the blogger, a popularity contest in other words. We want the competition to be purely about the photographs and we hope that you will vote with this ideal in mind.
Bookstall
Tuscany
Park Lookout
The Girl with the Red Hair
Cold Texas Steel
In a Ghost Town do Ghosts go to Church?
The Bridge
Solitude
Silo…
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Purple Fringe
While it may not look like it, this also is from the Classic Boat Festival. It is the view up from the lower causeway next to the boat docks.
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Anniversary Masts
Reflections from the Classic Boat Festival – which is where I started this series. An old schooner, about 100ft long, was pulling out into the bay to join the sailpast, and the best thing about it, as far as I am concerned, was the reflections. More shots from this series can be seen at this link.
Today is the second anniversary of Burntembers. It has been a fun ride, thanks to all of my readers. In recognition of the day, I suggest you Click here to browse a random post from the past, perhaps even the dim dark past of two years ago.
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Dinghy and Dory
Some more small rowing boats from the Classic Boat Festival of a week ago. I love the rope work on the small dinghy, named Fred above and in the last shot below. I am not sure what the wood pole is attached to the bow – it is not a mast as it had not mechanism for fixing it in place, or to attach sails. I am wondering if it is a towing bar, or to do with lifting the dinghy onto a larger boat.
I have a soft spot for the dory too, my parents had one when I was growing up though not as robust as this one.
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Portholes, Windows and Varnish
Window details of some boats in the Classic Boat Festival. Most of these shots are of the Zanzibar, whose wonderful transom showed in this post, and more information about the vessel can be seen in one of the comments.
For other images in this boat festival series, check out this link.
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