Feeling quite a bit better and my world was definitely prettier this morning, it looks like icing sugar shaken on a cake. I hope my energy levels can recover quickly, got to travel to Liverpool tomorrow, so we are hoping to visit Mr Gormleys gentlemen in Another Place whilst we are there.For now some pics from the garden :
Well I have managed to drag myself out of bed this evening, sat on the settee with a blanket and a drink for a couple of hours. Felt alright for a while but soon became exhausted again, this thing has really wiped me out, but it’s beginning to get me angry and I’m going to start fighting back!
Besides I’m running out of things to sketch in the bedroom!
Getting really bored now – but they won’t let me get up because everytime I do the world starts spinning! – Hmmm, I wonder if it’s anything to do with the HCSC’s I’ve been getting delivered at regular intervals?
Sketchbook doodles – sorry pictures taken on mobile phone!
Ok enough now, this is not funny, a day off is one thing but this is not nice! Headache, dizzy well dizzier than normal and a rotten sore throat.!
Sorry pictures from the sickbed again!
Yeah bored and a bit blurry, that’s about it for Sunday.
Well, I’ve given in and retired to my bed. This is a very rare occurrence, I don’t believe that 9 days into the 365 I can’t go out and take some pics. This was not in my plans but energy levels, headache and various other symptoms that you really don’t need to know about, have forced this stubborn individual to accept the TLC being offered. BUT… I did take some pics…..
Yes that is all I looked at on Saturday!!
I really am fed up with this cold – I keep thinking I’m getting better, I wake, I feel OK and then an hour later I want to go back to sleep. This has really wiped me out. My apologies therefore as I have only ventured as far as the garden, fed the birds and defrosted the water in the birdbath. Here are a few frosty shots: a pink heuchera and a couple of the caravan, oops sorry (my Studio) windows.
Unfortunately one of the few drawbacks of living on the North Wales coast at this time of year is that we don’t get very much snow. Oh I can see it, from my bedroom window, up there on the mountains in the distance but what little bit floated down into Mochdre has long since disappeared. It probably wouldn’t have made a snowman as big as Tony Harts’ Morph anyway.
Well I decided to create a snowman of my own and I’ve drawn one digitally using photoshop, not a pencil or paper in sight, and I didn’t get cold at all.
My turn to be ill, sore throat, sneezing, hot, cold, hot again……. can I stay in bed – not a chance!
Mum’s been out to the shops and can’t get the car back in the garage, so we’re going for a spot of drive scraping in Rhyd y Foel. It’s not fair really, only about 8 miles from us but they’ve got real snow, ours has pretty much disappeared now.
If you keep watching and reading you will soon notice that I take some strange pics, I like to take “moving images” whether I’m the moving bit (usually in the car!) or the subject is.
These two were taken, playing with the zoom on the camera whilst taking the shot in the car on the way to Rhyd y Foel. (by the way – I was not driving at the time – he was!)
Nipped down to the layby in Glan Conwy – for a parking area on the side of the 470 it has one of my favourite views, looking up (or is it down) the Conwy Valley towards Snowdonia. The mountains are always there but the weather makes for a dramatic view, different every time you glance up.
Well that’s definitely the end of the Christmas holidays, schools are open, family back to University, and colds are doing the rounds.
Took a quick drive down the Conwy Valley to find some snow, there is a bit left on the hills but the sun was shining and I even found some snowdrops growing under a hedge.
Snow on the hills above Glan Conwy but sunshine down by Bodnant.
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Decided to stay inside today and keep warm but managed to capture a little bit of magic
winter sunshine through the blinds!
This is going to be more difficult than I thought!
Deciding what to take pictures of and then writing too ……
These were taken in chilly Snowdonia – how can something so beautiful cause so much disruption when it’s in the wrong place?
I have a book of photographs, rescued from a Charity shop, published in 1987 for Cancer charity, Search 88. The photographs in the book were taken by hundreds of British people within the 24 hour period, 14th August 1987.
This sparked an idea in my head, a variation on a theme, one person (me) to take one photograph for 365 days in 2010 and then see where they take me!!
Anyway this is the first picture of the year; Number One – The Confused Pear.
Taken in my garden, the pear tree has blossom on the 1st January 2010!
