My Favourite Log II

I still love this log! I should really have taken the photo from a slightly different angle to get more of the cornfield in behind it. Perhaps I'll try that tomorrow. Excuse Barmy Barney photo bombing!

Favourite Log II

Summer Cornfields

This is the sight that greeted me at my "letting Barney off the lead" spot today! I don't think you could get a much more beautiful sight, unless you are by the sea perhaps. However, for us landlocked people this will do nicely. If this were Instagram, there would be a #nofilter because there are absolutely no effects on this photo, the scene is stunning just as it is.

Summer Cornfields

However, Google in it's wisdom (?) did an "auto awesome" version of this which turned out thus:

Auto Awesome Summer Cornfields

Without blowing my own trumpet, I honestly prefer mine! What do you think?

Cat's Cradle

I passed this today and it looked like the trees had been playing cat's cradle with their branches!

Cat's Cradle

Sunset through the Bedroom Window III

The sunsets seen from my son's bedroom window never cease to amaze me!

Guest Photo: Longest Day

My dad has always been into photography, maybe that is where I am now getting it from! I can't count the number of times photography books were relied on to be a good Christmas or birthday present (either that or cricket books!).

Anyway, recently he shared with me a photo he took at sunrise on the longest day and I wanted to share it in turn on my blog because I love it, especially as it is taken in one of my favourite parts of the country. Somewhere that I don't visit often enough but when I do, it is like coming home.

Longest Day

"Sunrise on June 21 st. If you look carefully, you can just see the sun in the mist to the right of the Mount"

Wild Flowers

I'm not one for gardening... In fact, anyone who knows me would say that is an understatement! But I find nature's garden hard to beat.

These flowers were at the kerbside. I'd been meaning to take their photo for several days but it's where I have the dogs on their leads so it's more tricky to do. I finally did though and it was lucky I did because the next day the council were there cutting them back with their big ride on mowers! They are the full size daisies by the way.

Kerbside flowers

A patch of tall daisies

More daisies

A field of wild flowers

I love this field, totally carpeted by wild flowers. This is the closest I have come to capturing it though and it still doesn't do it justice. It's the kind of place where you would expect lovers to escape from it all with a picnic and Pimms or perhaps even champagne!

Just hanging around

I was amazed to see these snails just hanging onto the plants I was passing! You can't see how windy it was, obviously, it being a photo. I couldn't believe that they could stay on while being blown around so much.

Hanging Around