April 2019

Dandelions always look great close up.

This was all a matter of getting the focus right, not as easy as it may appear.

March was quite windy, good for photographs of the flag outside the Pattishall Parish Hall.

And Wendy James signed three vinyl albums for me!!

March 2019

March has been sunny and, whilst not quite as warm as the twenty degrees found in February, pretty nice all the same. This is the month when I found a new friend and that is always a good excuse for taking lots of local pictures.

A walk around Eastcote is almost guaranteed to produce some very attractive pictures.

Even the walk back from Eastcote to Astcote can be interesting . . .

. . . especially when you happen to pass tress like this magnificent image shows.

Little was I to know when I took this as a kind of joke (with the sheep!) that the friend would come and stay and get frightened stiff by big cows on one of our walks!

February 2019

February sounds like a cold, unpleasant time of year but this year it was lovely. Warm on many days, reaching a crazy 20½°C on one occasion, and with flowers bursting through in many places.

Moon photos in this month nearly always work out well for some reason I have no idea why.

A new sign in Duncote actually works for me!

The lambs have appeared once more.

and they scamper off as the sun sets on the hill.

January 2019

Holland was cold, Really cold.

Russell bought me a new hat for Christmas. Brilliant!

Another visit to see Allannah. She received a fabulously illustrated copy of my book in hardback, designed and produced by Inna's daughter-in-law Yaraslawa. Most impressive. But expensive.

Once again, back in the village. Frosty, in more ways than one.

A new year. A new start. Again. Sad to see so much effort made in a relationship which looks like ending - but still a fantastic few months, wonderful memories, some inspiration and a very lovely book for Allannah.

December 2018

It's the end of 2018,a nd nearly the end of another era for me. But there's just time for some Christmas greetings, a blue sky, green fields and the Moon again.

No sooner had I unpacked presents with Bryony, Kyran and Matti than I was off to Holland. I took my car across via the Harwich - Hook Of Holland ferry to stay first with Inna's son and wife in The Hague.

And that's all folks!