Owing to our elderly dog, we can no longer travel very far from the car, so I was very happy to get this threatening image from a local croft with lovely light on this old hawthorn, just before the rain pelted down and I could dash back to the car. This resilient old hawthorn survives sandwiched between uprights for an old wall, likely associated with the old Marble Line works near Broadford, Isle of Skye. That's Beinn na Caillich looming in the background.
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Climbing up to The Table in the Quiraing, Isle of Skye, looking down on The Prison in the swirling mist. I asked myself frequently on this uphill slog Why am I doing this? When we set out to walk into the Quiraing in the dreary drizzle (a bright day had been forecast), my husband suddenly announced he wanted to go up to The Table. I was not amused - had I known I would have brought walking poles for the nasty descent. As it happens, I did have a little slip on the way down, and now seem to have (permanently?) damaged my shoulder...grrrrrrr...
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Brian's new girlfriend was really hot when they first met - but she has suddenly started giving him the cold shoulder, and he has no idea what is wrong! Clearly she is willing to sacrifice their love, but some day she'll pay the price, I know. Let's hope that he will be able to melt her cold, cold heart.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Cold'.
Well, obviously I wasn't going to freeze a living snail! Instead, I took an empty snail shell, filled it with water and popped it into the freezer for a couple of hours. I thought it would be easy to pick off the shell from the ice, leaving a snail-shaped ice cube. But this did not go entirely to plan - even this small shell was much tougher than I had anticipated, especially the older part of the shell nearest the centre of the spiral. I destroyed a couple of fingernails getting this much of the shell off.
The photoshoot proved tricky as well. I kept having to bring the frozen shell out of the freezer, put the snail in position and see if the snail would 'perform'. When it didn't, the shell went back into the freezer for a few minutes until I could try again with a snail. This took a number of attempts!
My apologies if any of you pick up an ear worm from the 1977 recording by Foreigner.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph and at no time did the snail come into contact with the ice.
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Explored (Number 42) March 20, 2024.
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My beautiful old girl Ceilidh, still a bit crazy after all these years, although much slower! After over 13 years, we can finally let her off the lead as she is not inclined to run off. With her various health issues, last autumn we didn't think she'd make it to Christmas...then New Years...then her birthday at the end of January - but today she is still happy, always wanting her food and (short) walkies.
My first attempt using the Lensbaby Velvet 56 as a portrait lens at f4 with an uncooperative subject - lots of room for improvement (but otherwise it would be boring).
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