Ok I’m begging!!!

I know it’s not a pretty sight!!! A woman of my age down on her knees and begging her virtual friends to vote for a couple of (well 3 actually!) images! The thing is, you see, I’ve entered a competition through the FineArtAmerica website, enter three images, when you get 250 votes, it goes through to the next round!! 250!!!

Idon’t know 250 people, how can I? I’m always sat at the computer! I don’t get out much ha ha.  And then like a bolt of lightening out of the blue – I remembered all my virtual friends, and yes – you lovely people I mean you!!! My WordPress friends and I have quite a few!

 

So here are the three images that I entered – if you would like to help me along,  just click on the image and vote…..

 

 

 

 

I found it impossible to choose my three favourites, I mean it’s all personal, but these were my three favourites on the day of choice!! The winner, by the way, has their image featured on a TV advertising campaign in the States, can you imagine how exciting that would be?

Also you do realise that if I ever got that far in the competition that I would be unbearable to live with….so go on…do it!!! Click three times and vote! Especially for Archie the beautiful dog picture…..

In return, I promise that I will continue blogging for a year, providing you with new, colourful, happy images to brighten up your day….

Ok now for the begging…..

 

PLEASE, PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP !!!

Can I get up off my knees now, cos you know it’s hard as you get older and my old bones are aching.

 

Many many thanks to those of you who’ve read all the way down to here and even bigger thanks if you’ve clicked on any of my images above…….xx

Come round for a coffee

That’s what my friend said, well of course I went and of course there’s no longer any sun! But we sat out in the garden anyway… what a wonderful garden it was… and the coffee was pretty good too!!

Many thanks

Well, here I am, I woke at 4 am (some clot on a motorbike, letting his engine run outside my window!!!) I assume it was a man…well actually I know who it was and it is a man!! Anyway I digress, I am happily updating my blog and flicking back and for between websites, my fb page, editing the odd photo here and there and I’m suddenly aware of how many new followers I have on my WordPress blog now that I’m back after a 5 month break, too many to thank individually, so may I take this opportunity, before the sun comes up to say a huge, huge thank you.  I hope you will enjoy my posts and I get back into the really blogging spirit that I had last year!!

A tiny bit of Spring Cleaning

I’m going to be updating this blog for this year, I’ve already chosen a different theme…this time something a little more grown up! I’m going to be deleting my other pages and updating them over the next couple of weeks…..I hope you’ll like what I do!!!

Bluebells, bluebells and more !!

Well I know that I said I wasn’t going to blog every day but I just couldn’t resist posting these photos.  I’ve been sat in the garden watching a little blue tit going in and out of the bird box feeding it’s babies! But it was a little clump of bluebells in a shady corner of my garden that caught my eye.

I took a couple of shots and no matter how much I wanted to sit out in the garden and catch the rays, I felt compelled to come in and play with the images straight from the camera….so these are freshly baked!!

Isn’t this the most perfect little fairy hat?

and this little grouping is just divine!

And then as you know by now we’ve had at least two days of sunshine here in the UK and my boy Charlie is lapping it up!!  Here he is snoring away on the decking!!

This last photo is one I took yesterday of a guy sitting on a boat and playing the guitar overlooking the river…it was just a super shot that got me running for the camera! I’ve given it a bit of an HDR feel which I think gives him a real rock and roll look!! I just love how his guitar is so shiny that you can see the reflection of his foot in it!!

 

I don’t know if I’ll blog tomorrow or not but I hope you’ll enjoy these photos of all things gloriously springlike.

Enjoy the sunshine…….

 

 

 

Spring has got me on a high!!

What a difference a day makes! The sun is out, the sky is blue and it’s actually really, really warm!!!

On Sunday, yesterday, I took a very, very long walk with Charlie and Canon up to our usual woods. What an amazing place it is! I have been going every day for at least the last 12 years (apart from holidays and when I’ve really been far too poorly to move from my bed) and every walk brings new pleasures, yesterday was amazing. The fact that we’ve had so much rain and now the warmth from the sun has brought forth Spring in a rush.

 

I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy inside and just feel happy and appreciate what I’ve got. I’m so lucky to have the hubster, he really is my best mate and I have some really, really special  friends, I bump into people – I don’t know their names but chances are I know their dog’s name..and here is one such dog…he’s actually quite a new boy on the block and has already found his place settled in and got a girlfriend! I spent a good 15-30 minutes just watching him running about and launching himself at other dogs as they approached…he is a big ball of fluff….a joy to watch.

 

The trees were just fabulous, the greenest of greens almost a vivid lime green…this is what we call the Cathedral and it is truly stunning -

 

There is a huge Copper Beech tree and the leaves are coming out in force now but they aren’t yet the rich red…this is the view above my head….

 

Charlie didn’t want to be left out of course and he was beginning to tire but true to form he put on his most handsome face (well I think so!) I think this is where you’re meant to say “Ahhhhhhh”!!

 

 

 

I would like to apologise for the fact that now all my images are marked with a copyright signature and they are of much smaller resolution – the sad fact is people are having their images stolen from Facebook…what is going on with the world…well I’m in a good mood so I’m not going to let that bother me today!!

In fact I’m in such a good mood that something that usually gets my goat actually had me chuckling and reaching for my camera to capture the offensive scene…..

As you can see we have a rather upper class litter lout in this part of the world!! Honestly! and they say there is a recession!!! Can’t be bad!!

 

 

 

A Hustle of Russells????

Well, my goodness, I’ve been wanting to post a new blog on here for the last couple of days and haven’t had the time, so here we go! I want to know what you call a group of Jack Russells….could it be a “Hustle of Russells“?

I love JR’s they are such playful little dogs with massive characters. When I grew up I was always told to be wary of JR’s and yet as an adult I’ve yet to meet one that isn’t the most incredibly sweet-tempered dog. I believe it’s due to them being well socialized ..and where I walk there are many and they all get on.

Here are a couple of snaps…you tell me whether you think I’ve found the correct word!!!

All noise and no harm done….just good clean fun!

Russells doing what Russells do best!

I could take this one home with me!

My point exactly!

And always one that embarrasses the owner!!!

I’ve been on a mammoth walk this morning over two hours and have taken so many photographs it’s going to take an age to edit them all!!! I think I’ll have a quick flick of a duster and an even quicker zoom with the Dyson and then it’s post processing….I can’t wait.

Oh it is good to blog again and with the weather picking up there seems so much more to photograph.

I would also like to thank all of you who’ve been in touch and left messages…it makes me feel very special.

 

Take care, have a great Sunday!