On another sunny day, insects, particularly flies and bees, were busy in the garden, where
some hellebores are now turning to seed,
whilst the tree peonies are budding,
and the euphorbias flowering.
This afternoon Flo added two photographs of bees,
one on a daffodil,
and another on a pansy.
Whilst engaged in that, she heard the wings of a dove, turned, drew like Clint Eastwood, and got a distant shot, of which this is a very small crop:
Later Jackie drove our granddaughter and me to Milford on Sea where Flo clambered on the rocks and I hobbled along the promenade.
Reminiscent of ‘Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer’ of Nat ‘King’ Cole, ( YouTube it if you are below a certain age) the shingled beach was as crowded as we have seen it.
A young lady, legs swinging from the sea wall, arranged her hair, as Flo made her way down to the rocks at the water’s edge, where, after contemplating the waves, she sat for a while watching the spray before getting her feet wet, and slipping up the shingle slope with her customary crouching gait. She explains that stones in the wet shoes made it too painful to wear them, so she had to put them on her hands.
Flo left her soggy shoes in the car and found a more bearable barefoot route to sea-smoothed boulders further along towards the Marine restaurant. She explored these for a while and, after waiting for a young boy to finish his tightrope act, ran back along the sea wall. Like the boy, when she negotiated the narrow wooden section, she spread out her arms for balance, and concentrated a little more. Zola Budd, the South African born British Olympic athlete, who competed barefoot in the 1980s, comes to mind.
During all this time a couple basked on the concrete structure, oblivious of anything else.
This evening we dined on pork rack of ribs marinaded in barbecue sauce, with special fried rice, and green beans, followed, some time later, by Magnum ice creams,courtesy of Ian. I drank Louis de Camponac cabernet sauvignon 2014; Becky and Ian chose Echo Falls rose, and Jackie drank an alcohol free one bought by mistake. This latter error was not as disastrous as the alcohol free Cobra I once bought from Sainsbury’s. I don’t mind the lack of alcohol, but I do like it to taste a little like the real thing.
Lovely pictures 🙂
Thank you very much
Do you love the Canon camera you mentioned a few days ago? It takes better close ups than my Canon Rebel, I can tell you that!
Thank you Ginene. It is excellent and I haven’t mastered much of it
Beautiful!!!
Thank you Elena
I am always in awe of your pictures. Took me right in to your beautiful day.
Thank you Cynthia. We had to do the running pics twice, because the subject wasn’t happy with many of them 🙂
Such wonderful photos here, Derrick, thanks so much for sharing! 🙂
Thank you Jewels
Beautiful photographs ~
Thank you Mary