Christmas Wishes

And from our snowy winter in 2010:  it's great that our squirrel-proof feeders really are squirrel-proof, but they don't lend themselves to taking such good bird photos.

Happy Christmas and good wishes for 2016

On the way to work...

After all the rain, wind and what feels like grey skies forever, today was sunny and clear - and even offered a couple of photo opportunities. The three different sizes of truck making deliveries into the brewery made me think of Goldilocks and the 3 bears.

I loved the way colours were reflecting in the sign on the wall down near Heuston station. However, it seemed that when I moved so that the post wasn't in the way, my angle had changed enough that I wasn't picking up the same vivid reds, no matter how long I waited. I couldn't figure out if it was from traffic lights or car tail lights - but it looked great.

November Favourites....

The weather here has been so grey and dull that photo-opportunities are few and far between.
Instead, here are my favourite cards from November...

The sample, once I got over feeling constricted by the 2 1/4" squares, was fun to make - something I've wanted to do for a long time.

A New Leaf

We were dog-sitting this weekend. On our way home from shopping on Saturday morning (during a gap in the rain) we both spotted this unusual leaf fall. So cool the way the rowan leaf was on top of another solid leaf so perfectly. C couldn't believe I didn't have my camera with my - but the one in my phone isn't too shabby in good light.

Infusing

On our first blackberry-picking outing, I found a blackthorn bush tucked away in between all the brambles - and with the most enormous sloes on it. They were so big that I'm sure they were probably sweet and almost edible too, but I didn't get enough to want to even waste one - they are all slowly turning into sloe gin, along with another handful of regular-sized ones that I found on our second outing. After taking this photo, I finally started shaking it so as to let the sugar dissolve, but I always love seeing the colour slowly seeping out of the berries.