The colour white

Linking up with Texture Tuesday with this 'white' theme, using one of Kim Klassen's textures.

New palette

Joining in with Color Me Weekly with this image, using a clipping mask and gradient adjustment layer.

Pause

Just enjoyed the half term holiday with family and having some great days out in spite of the cold weather. Also enjoyed reading one of A A Gill's books and found a particular sentence struck a chord with me ' ... the most precious, elegant object in a free society - a quiet life of small joys'. I guess these images show some of the 'small joys'. Another shed one to add to the folder - a glimpse of the GCs plastic table and chairs stowed away until summer picnics in the garden. But still finding small joys in the winter!

New palette

Doesn't seem like a week since the last try at a palette! I'm joining in again with the
Color My Weekly challenge and learning a few new things on the way. This was taken in Scotland with an amazing variety of colours in the stone. Didn't look for spiders though!

Colour palette

Made my first colour palette and linking in with leavesnbloom photography. The hydrangea is left over from summer and has a sprinkling of frost. Cold night tonight - hoping that there will be a repeat of the aurora borealis which I missed last night. Off to find somewhere without too much light pollution.

Shedding light ...

One of the first frosts of the winter, no snow yet. Ye olde shed taking the limelight!

Sunrise

Living on the NE coast of England we get some amazing sunrises. I caught the sun coming through the window blinds catching the faint outlines of the branches and reflecting in the TV screen whilst the sky was a pinky-red. Must get out early one morning to catch the sun rising over the sea! A sign of good things to come!

No words needed

To my mum Muriel!

Jesus - the greatest gift!

Many thanks for all the kind comments on my mum's death. They are all appreciated and it's great to know that people I've never met ( apart from Julie and her lovely hubby) took the time to leave a comment. Hope you all have a great Christmas!

My mum

My mum died a couple of days ago. She was 96 and had lived in her care home for 5 years and in a residential home for 6 years before that. There is a big gap in my life now. I shall miss her.

Busy, busy

Near the shed

Near the shed, with two of Kim Klassen's textures

Fit to burst

Found this one in the archives, taken at the beginning of autumn. To me it speaks of good things to come, beauty and colour just waiting to burst forth.

Hallway

Bright sunshine and it's nearly the end of November! Played with this image in Photoshop and added one of my textures. At least it makes a change from the shed! (Can't believe I've actually got a folder called 'shed' - what's your strangest folder?)

Wor shed

That is, our shed. We haven't a huge garden (you might have a yard!) but it has a shed in it. Just a plain old shed, but with lots of memories - rabbits have lived here, a swarm of bees made their home here, children and grandchildren have used it as a 'house'. I quite like it but it wouldn't appear in a 'Homes and garden' magazine!

Breaking the rules

Sign of the times

Resident snail

Becoming a rare sight these days, these phone boxes often end up in somebody's garden as a large garden ornament. This one, still in use on the west coast of Scotland, had its own resident snail which moved around from pane to pane. It must have made little sorties to find food!

Agapanthus

Before and after editing, using Painter with curves adjustment and yellow photo filter.

A short break ...

..... on the west coast of Scotland - beautiful in all kinds of weather!