Woke to snow this morning! Can’t really complain, I didn’t have to go anywhere today so I was lucky 🙂 A proper winter day and a lovely change from the dreich greyness and strong winds of the last few days.
Day 16 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
Category: Weather
Day 14 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
OK, I know, I’m starting to sound like a cracked record where the weather is concerned; it’s gales, rain and endless greyness again today. I didn’t think i’d mange out for a walk but late afternoon, dusk really, I headed down the road. It was so cold I think I was getting brain freeze…
Day 12 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
Another wet day of forced confinement, too wet and windy to venture out, well, I could but I really couldn’t muster the enthusiasm 🤣 I did make myself useful by starting to have a clear out and declutter in my studio so that I can actually sit at my desk to work and be creative.
As I looked out of the window I saw these Goldfinches in the tree outside, they are, at least, undeterred by the weather 🙂 My mum still calls them by the old Shropshire name of “seven-coloured linnet” which I think is lovely and really describes them well.
Day 11 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
After three days of not being able to get out due to the horrible weather I saw a bit of sunshine and went for it! The sky was still looking pretty threatening and I didn’t go too far, it rained very very briefly on me but waited until I got back through the door at home before the heavens opened 🙂
Day 9 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
A little improvement in the weather today, I spotted this beautiful rainbow – if you look closely it is a double one 🙂 Good to see a little sunshine and blue sky, even if only temporarily haha!
Day 8 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
Inside looking out – and that is how I’ll stay all day, wind gusts of 76mph were recorded at 6am this morning in South Uist, and there is even more lashing rain to add to the already saturated fields!
Day 7 / 365 – Photo a Day Project 2023
Well, I made it through a full week of photographing every day 🙂 Out and about this morning during a break in the weather – it was supposed to be 6’C but with winds of 35mph it felt like freezing – i’m pretty sure my eyeballs were frozen into their sockets by the time I got home!
Finally home!
We were finally able to get a flight back out of Cyprus on the 2nd August 2020 when the government there unbanned flights in from the UK. Sadly there were still no direct flights back to Scotland for the forseeable future so we had rather a convoluted route home: Paphos -> Gatwick, overnight there in a hotel, Gatwick -> Glasgow, overnight there in a hotel then Glasgow -> Benbecula the next day.
After three days travelling, three flights and two hotel stays we though we should quarantine ourselves for 14 days on returning home as the last thing we wanted to do was spread this thing around our island when they’ve fought so valiantly to keep it out (thankfully, as there are NO intensive care facilities here!).
So today, 18th August we are finally free to go out and about and do our own shopping! Our neighbours Bill and Norma have been fantastic – with both looking after our house while we were away and getting shopping and supplies for us while we were in quarantine. We always looked forward to our weekly Zoom chat with them while we were away 🙂
Photo Project 365 – Week 9 – February and March 2018
This week’s theme is Buildings
Lots and lots and lots of rain this week. Hey, whatever happened to “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.” Clearly disproved! Some of my photos this week were not strictly buildings, more structures but as it’s my own personal project i’m feeling free to interpret the projects as I wish. I’m sure you’ll understand 😀
Well the Seawhite sketchbook i’m using to put my printed out photos into is working out great, though it’s getting hard to close now and it’s only a third full! Don’t quite know what it will be like by the end of June – will report back then 🙂
My iPad which I love!!
(note that there is now also a newer model out, the Instax Share SP-3 Printer)
Fujifilm Instax Mini Film – 20 shots
though for my project I have now bought the Fujifilm Instax Mini Film – 100 shots pack to get me started.
The sketchbook I am using for my journal is the square, black Seawhite 140mm x 140mm 140gsm artist’s sketchbook I have bought two of these and using a page a day I reckon each one should last me 6 months.
The above links take you to Amazon UK where there is information about each product. Any purchases made using the links given above will give me a teeny, tiny bit of commission which I will put to good use during future weeks and future projects.
Storm Frank
Well I think we got off fairly lightly last night, storm Frank came and went, with a high gust of 65mph, power out for just a very short while but, thankfully, no damage to the house.
An afternoon spent doing some gelli printing for my Journey Book, chatting with my mum on Skype and a fabulous sunset late this afternoon to end the day – I had to run out and capture it with my phone.
