For this week’s Through The Lens Thursday I dug into my button collection and pulled out some of my favourites, the black Mother of Pearl buttons. Some buttons I use in my jewelry making and some (like these), I keep in my favourites jar. Next week is tall, so that will be an interesting one. Happy Thursday!
At last the weather has cooled off a little and the mornings are almost chilly and damp. This means that we are seeing lots of turtles in the woods and lots and lots of mushrooms! I am still pulling a handful of cherry tomatoes off the vines every day and my chili plants have started to flower, but I am not sure I will have the pleasure of any chilies now that it has turned a bit more, chilly (!). 1. Some rather lovely clouds, look how the lower ones have flat bottoms, like they are resting on some invisible shelf. 2. Little mushrooms with dewy stalks. 3. Street outlets. 4. A gaggle of mushrooms. 5. Sunset and party lights. 6. The gaggle the next day. 7. A local furniture store. I hope you had a lovely week and that the week ahead is going well.
August was a month of hot days, school holidays, day trips and returning to school. I used the prompts from Fat Mum Slim’s Photo a Day challenge and here are my photos from last month. 1. Landscape 2. Lunch 3. S is for…. Soccer ball, abandonded in the park. 4. In the Middle. 5. Three. 6. Grateful for… My little spot on the interwebs! 7. Spot. 8. Pet Peeve. Crazy crisp/chip flavours. These were yukky, in case you are interested! 9. Mix. Silver fabric and sewing machine mixed to make a bag. 10. Art. The art of finding treasure in the creek. The watch is one of our favourite finds so far. 11. Mirror. In the grass reflecting the clouds. 12. Gather. 13. Inside. Wanting to look inside this lot! 14. Give. Thanks Grandma for giving us some Dandelion and Burdock sweets. 15. Clouds. 16. Clean. This old dinosaur needs a clean. 17. Dinner. 18. Arrow. 19. To-Do. Get a film in this vintage camera and get snapping the ole fashioned way. 20. Before …
Last week saw the end of The August Break for 2014, Susannah always comes up with interesting prompts and tips and techniques which is a great bonus. So here are the grand finale photos, until next year. 25. Little. 26. Morning. 27. Lines. 28. Something New. A batch of new beads to play with! 29. Nature. 30. Soft. Another hot week here in St Louis, hopefully now that we have entered September the weather will start to cool off a little. I am ready for all things Autumn – pumpkins, apples, cinnamon and everything they can be put in! Here are a few snaps from last week. 1. My mushroom obsession continues! 2. The local library had a tie craft event, it was a big success and the kids all made cool shirts. I had a go at Japanese Shibori dyeing, and I want to do more and when I do, I will be sure to share. 3. & 4. Vintage doll carry boxes in an antique mall. Have a lovely week! …
This week in the world of Through The Lens Thursday, the prompt is texture. I was all set to head into the woods ready to throw myself onto the damp leafy path to catch a photo of a newly grown mushroom or get a shot of some interesting tree bark. Then I opened my back door to check on the tomatoes and there was our only surviving sunflower gently turning to seed to feed the pretty yellow bird which likes to sit on the flower and have a snack. What beautiful texture right here, the flowers in the middle of the flower, the drying petals and the forming seeds. We will harvest some seeds when they are ready and hopefully have a lovely yellow sunflower crop next summer. Have you been growing this summer or are you planning to grow (depending on which season you are heading into)? I have kale and beetroot seedlings peeking through for a lovely Fall crop.
Last week was hot hot and more hot with a lot of humidity. That thick, custardy air which hits you in the face like a hair dryer when you open the door. Lovely. We have been sweating out all of our toxins, so we will have beautiful skin by the time Autumn arrives. In the meantime, lots of sweaty laundry. On the morning walks to school we have been spotting snakes and turtles of various sizes and the mushrooms are abundant which always makes me happy! The August Break continues, we are almost at the end of August, can you believe it! Here are photos 18 through 24. 18. Jump. Self timer on the camera and tripod and boing boing boing! 19. Black and White. One of the lovely mushrooms we spotted this week. 20. Peaceful. A new mag and sketchbook and lavender looking for a peaceful moment. 21. Treasures. Rocks from the beach, I always look for unusual shapes and rocks with holes. Marbles from the creek and acorns from the woods. 22. Shadow. …
For Through the Lens Thursday this week, the prompt is ‘Green’, so a nice easy one to find. I wandered into the rain drenched garden (big big storms last night) and snapped a few green items. The green tomatoes are turning red very kindly as they are ripening just slowly enough that we haven’t had to make tomato based food for a week straight, then no more. These are cherry tomato plants and I pick 3 or 4 a day which usually get eaten right off the plant or popped in a salad or onto a pizza. I still have plants full of tomatoes which the squirrels and groundhogs are sharing nicely, so we can look forward to homegrown tomatoes for the rest of the summer! I like the little droplet on this photo as the plants are just drying from all the rain. Thanks as always to Greta at Gfunkified and Alison at Writing Wishing for devising Through the Lens Thursday and helping us all improve our photo skills. Next week is Texture, so that will …
I had to go and check the list of prompts for this week’s Through the Lens Thursday photo. Lemon? Are you sure? Lemon? An actual lemon? The colour lemon? A lemon recipe? Feeling like a lemon? Yes, I am sure, and all of the above will do just fine. I decided to dig out a few lemon recipes from my 1970’s Betty Crocker Recipe Card Library and use an actual real life lemon. Lemon and dappled sunlight, what a lovely combination. Happy Thursday!
This week’s prompt for Through The Lens Thursday is ‘Looking Up’, so I did. We went on a little hike yesterday with some friends and these pylons were marching across the landscape. I looked up and caught the harsh lines of the pylon and wires against the drifting clouds of the afternoon. Do you always remember to look up as well as all around to get a photograph or just take in your surroundings? It’s a good thing to do.
This week’s prompt has got me thinking. What is the difference kind friends between stairs and steps? All I can find in my direct vicinity are steps, up to porches, down to basements, into shops, even rock steps in the woods, but no stairs. I class stairs as the steps (confused yet?) which are inside a house, apartment block, department store or theatre. They are often carpeted, but still stairs if not. Why? Why do I go up the stairs in my Mum’s house to the next floor, but I go down the steps to my basement and up the steps to the porch. In stately homes there is always a sweeping staircase, never sweeping steps. They are essentially the same thing, why the different name? You take ‘steps’ as you walk but you never take big ‘stairs’ to get somewhere faster, but bigger ‘steps’ will get you there quickly. So alas, I have no stairs, only steps for my photo! Pretty darn cool steps though, check out the ivy climbing up step by step. …
Clare Davis Etheridge 