saying goodbye

This is a sad photo, dear old dog was lucky to spend christmas with us, but has only a few days or maybe weeks left to live.

my favourite photo

an easy choice!
this was just snapped at the time, but has stuck in my memory ever since as being the nicest photo I've captured of them all year. It's fun and relaxed.

festive feasts!

This weeks This weeks prompt nearly defeated me, as I rush around taking care of our manic household and trying to prepare for christmas. However, I love the 52 photos project and all the kind, generous and hugely talented people involved, and am determined not to miss a week.
Although I thought it's a little too early in the season for me to have produced anything picturesque, I then had a little inspiration from todays cooking challenge - preparing the cranberry sauce!

cranberries

Christmas colours

twinkling lights

christmas lights aren't around yet, so this photo came from fireworks night

rockets skybound



giving thanks

I give thanks for my wonderful family

something borrowed

I've been so enjoying the 52 photos project. I'm so grateful for all the lovely comments that I've received, I appreciate each one. It's been such fun looking at all the superb photos that have been presented into each weeks gallery.
Something borrowed was a prompt that stumped me a bit.
However, this was a photo I took about 2 weeks ago, and I was very pleased with it. I was planning on submitting it to a local interest competition, so that was my plan for this photo, I guess I am borrowing it from that plan to put into this blog instead!
Random!

aqua

it's been a damp, miserable week!
so this is a november water photo

treat

look up

her first time on the low ropes, taken whilst on holiday this half term

autumn colours

early morning peep of the sun through a vine

the cold weather is coming, but today will be warm

revel in the red while it's here

handwriting

just as I was wondering how to tackle the topic of handwriting, when my own is so very bad, and some postcards dropped through the letter box!

circle

I was sent to photograph a circle.
I captured 2 very different circles, I wonder which one I will submit?

along a fence

red

So many lovely red things, but this caught my eye in the garden

words and pictures

Our family will be welcoming a new puppy into our midst this week.
This photo was taken at a visit to our puppy when he was tiny a few weeks ago.
He will seem much bigger when he comes home in 2 days time!

my quiet place

I contemplated another garden photo, but eventually concluded the only place I am guaranteed peace and quiet is in my car!

in the garden before september

it has to be a sunflower!

profile

This last month I've been doing a series of photos based on the letters of the alphabet. I didn't intend this photo to be a profile, just a photo for "U",  but I misjudged the lighting, and found a perfect profile photo instead!

old and young

I went out and took a few photos to convert to black and white, but this picture I snapped at church on sunday was much better!
The unplanned often surpasses the planned.

reflection

I've decided to go with a photo I took of a refreshing glass of wine that I took on holiday a few weeks ago, reminds me of a happy time!

This is the most accessible body of water I could get to this week.
It's not the best reflection, but I love the photos, especially the local landmark tower in the background!

rusted and vintage

as soon as I saw the prompt this week, I knew I had to go back and photograph an old barn I'd driven past earlier the same day. so for rusted I have 2 pictures from a very enjoyable evening photo shoot. I love the colours and textures.

...and for vintage I present a photo taken today of a Japonica bush that's outside my front door. I have edited it a little on my phone, now vintage!

chocolate!

Am so proud of this photo - mainly because I managed to purchase my favourite chocolate, unwrap it, photograph it, then put it away again without eating it!
I had a little later on however!
Yummy

the table at mealtime

This was an easy one for me - to capture a meal, I only wish my breakfasts were always this delicious and appealing!

a summer treat

This lovely hat was given to my daughter. She loves it, and it's a great sunhat, but she insists on wearing it back to front!

in the garden

I'm in the middle of a two week holiday, but keen to keep pace with the 52 photos project. This was taken last week in my parents garden. then it got eaten, and was delicious!

a very exciting blue hour!

yesterday evening I was at an Elton John concert!

a word about me

this was a tricky one - a word to describe me!
I just couldn't find a word anywhere, but then I found a photo. I snapped it on my phone on the way home from work yesterday.
I looked at the photo and the word loved came to me.
Looking at my amazing family, and thinking of how much I love them, and I know they love me back.
Someone loves this car, it's large, colourful, well past it's best before date but someone adores it and uses it.
And to top it all, I've been on instagram for a few weeks now, and this photo was the first and only one I've posted that has "made the popular page", so I'm very proud of this acheivement!
So I took the photo and added the word - hope that's not cheating!

The view from Windy Castle

one very windy day we visited Evesham Tower - a very breezy walk, we could only encourage the children to get there by telling them it was Peppa Pig's windy castle (which does look exactly like Evesham Tower). Many flights of stone spiral staircase later, this was the view!

I took this photo on our weekend away in May 2011.

loving the challenge

The 52 photos challenge is fabulous, it's been great browsing all the submissions. This week it was lots of fun choosing a heart to photograph, and I settled on a fresh, simple, colourful option. Thank you to everyone who's left kind comments on this blog, I so appreciate them all.

a very happy memory

from a golden day, of our whole family enjoying visiting a farm. this is maybe not the best photo, but certainly a very happy memory, my daughter absolutely loving going for a pony ride, snapped on my phone using hipstamatic!

deep blue sea

Having been watching and thinking of water all week, I can do no better than the deep blue sea, this photo taken on holiday in Northumbria last year, I could sit and look at the sea all day long

a ray of light

Having been tasked with capturing a ray of light this week, the sun steadfastly refused to shine during my "able to take a photograph" hours, so I looked at the beauty of a candle instead. Thanks to this project I have been introduced to the amazing Hipstamatic, which has been like having the most amazing new camera to play with. So here is my ray of light..

i found it on the ground......

I have so been enjoying the 52photosproject, eagerly waiting to hear the prompt on sunday, then choosing a photo to reflect it on wednesday.  I just wish I had more time to put this blog together properly - which I will do in time.
Image enthralls me.
as to what I found on the ground:

a picnic that my children were enjoying

on the theme of colour

It's the colour of the fruit and the wristband.

first off!

On the theme of nourish, I considered nourishment for the soul as well as the body!

I like the shinyness, and how the sun glints just a little bit through the wine