Another batch of pics!
Photographer: Rosie55
Number of photographs in this post: 11
Themes: 13 Irony, 25 drops, 27 dry, 36 yellow, 44 Heavy, 47 Statue, 54 Cream, 58 Field, 61 Music, 88 Stand, 93 Shatter
For anyone interested, here are links to my previous posts in the challenge:
First set 3 Pictures
Second set 8 "
Third set 8 "
Fourth set 10 "
Fifth set 3 "
Sixth set 3 "
Seventh set 10 "
Eighth set 10 "
55/100 so far - more than halfway!
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So what do I have today?
Irony - Ok. Someone says Ironmonger - what do you think of? A little old-fashioned shop full of nails, zinc buckets, tools and hardware, yes? In a busy High Street, yes? With a grumpy little owner with a blue overall, a flat cap and a pencil stuck behind his ear who knows where exactly everything, just every single thing in the shop is. Yes, that's what I think of, too. So it seemed a trifle ironic to me to find this extremely rural and undeveloped country lane, called Ironmongers Lane - miles from the nearest town and not a shop in sight! No? (Well, at least iron crept into it somewhere! Think of it as artistic licence!! lol)
Drops
There isn't a lot you can say about a railing in a wet car park, is there? Except that the water marks almost look like tapestry, I thought and there are drops on it!
Dry
A narrowboat in the process being fitted out as a luxury cruise barge will be on the canal again eventually - but for the moment, it is high and dry in the boatyard.
Yellow
The very first flowers have appeared on the Winter Flowering Jasmine in the garden - and a first frost is forecast for this week!
Heavy
This lovely weathervane on a farm at Berkeley shows a "heavy horse" pulling the plough. Made redundant in the last century by mechanisation and the tractor, once every farm would have had its "heavy" horses for pulling machinery, some of them descended from the huge horses needed in medieval times to carry the weight of a knight in full armour. The breed names are redolent of the countryside - Shires, Clydesdales, Suffolks, Percherons - beautiful creatures and immensely strong.
Statue
This grizzled old fellow used to belong to my mother who once painted him white in a fit of enthusiasm. This has gradually flaking off over the last twenty years or so, leaving him rather mottled, (more leopard looking than lion). But he reminds me of my mum, so I love him!
Cream
How appropriate - my cream photograph box. But I rarely print photographs these days, so now it holds the downloading USB cables, the camera charger, etc. Moving with the times!
Field
So many fields, so little time....! I photographed several fields this week but came back to the first I took, the field behind my house. Nice hedges, old meadow land, usual occupants = four rams (but sometimes lambs in spring!) , very peaceful!
Music
My treasured and well-thumbed score for Bach's St Matthew Passion, given to me for my 14th Birthday by my musical grandfather, is soft and worn in - the pages do not rustle as you turn them, a great bonus! But it has some of the greatest music ever written in it. Singing in it and listening to it for more than forty years, it has given me endless exaltation and joy! This is the beginning of the final chorus, which is always to me immensely poignant both for the beautiful words, music and sentiment, and because it means the performance is almost over. At least, until the next time!
Stand
And musicians use music stands!
Shatter
The water gets into these terracotta pots in the garden and , once they have been frozen in the winter, they start to shatter progressively until they fall apart completely. This one is just getting going but has a year or two of use left in it yet!
That's today's pile, which brings me up to 66, exactly two thirds done!