@odd He is definitely a lion in his own head!
@chrisaldrich How wonderful! I love typewriters and envy your collection. I have a little orange Brother Deluxe 250TR with a faulty Shift mechanism - the price I was quoted for repair was eye-watering so I just type everything in lower case!
I think my cat has melted. It was 32º in the glass-roofed conservatory but he persevered with his Madame Récamier impersonation.
So happy to have a dry and sunny day after weeks (months) of rain. Woodland is scant around here but we found a lovely trail and it was absolutely awash with the white starry flowerheads of wild garlic! The smell was incredible and I came home craving garlic bread and pizza.
@Miraz I agree! I keep a written daily diary but somehow I have never found the same motivation for daily posting online - challenges and prompts are greatly motivating though, and I'm hoping will help the habit stick better.
I’m pleased with myself for finding something to post every day for the April Photoblogging Challenge, including the 2 bonus days. There are so many great photographers here with a wonderful eye for a shot and amazing locations, I usually get too shy about posting my mobile phone snaps.
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Bonus Day 2: unputdownable (Jim / @jimmitchell)
@mattypenny It is Louth, Lincolnshire, the Greenwich Meridian Line of zero degrees longitude passes through here, right through one of the town's schools actually 😄
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Bonus Day 1: bubble (@paulrobertlloyd) With no time to take a new image for today’s prompt, all that came up when I searched my Google Photos was this really bad phone shot of a mermaid in a bubble I took at a street carnival a couple of years ago 😕.
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 30: hometown (matt / @mattypenny) My hometown is on the Greenwich Meridian line. This is, one of three sculpted figures around town that mark the Meridian Line, “Searching”
@stupendousman Thank you, glad you like it! 😄
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 29: drift (Simon / @SimonWoods)
@pratik Wow that is an awesome image, beautifully captured!
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 28: community (@stupendousman) “Our Game” was a huge community project celebrating Ashbourne’s annual Shrovetide football game. Local people made about 5000 terracotta figures representing the players and supporters of the game.
@val She was quite grumpy about being discovered and woken up! 😄
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 27: surprise (Sam / @Sdevore) This is not what I was looking for under the bed 🐱
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 26: critter (Jefferson / @7robots)
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 25: spine (Ian / @thedimpause)
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 24: light (Esteban / @eumrz) Or rather, headlights.
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 23: dreamy (@maique)
@anniegreens That is beautiful!
@maique Dreamy indeed! Beautiful atmospheric images.
I resisted posting a photo of a blue sky for today’s prompt! Not hard to do as I can’t remember when I last saw one…. 📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 22: blue (Elizabeth / @lzbth)
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 21: mountain (David / @dejus) At the top of Mount Srđ, Dubrovnik
@val It was, too cute to eat!
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 20: ice (@the)
@Miraz The camels were edible, but far too cute to eat! I kept them for ages.
While drinking my coffee in the conservatory today, I was treated to this shameless display of thievery in the neighbours' garden. I wonder if this is the same squirrel who’s been digging around in my potted acer tree? Maybe that’s where he’s been stashing his stolen loot.
@Archimage I think is is very sensible to always be aware of what your velociraptor might be getting up to...
@amerpie Oh thank you! There are so many great photographers here I always feel shy about posting my humble mobile phone snaps! 😆
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 19: birthday (David / @crossingthethreshold) This is an older photo that came up when I searched for “birthday” in my Google photos. My partner used to make themed birthday cakes for friends, this Egyptian one was made for me one year because I love camels.
@amerpie what a fabulous photo! 😍
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 18: mood (@agilelisa) This was the most moody and dramatic sunset I have ever seen, even for a place on the coast known for its beautiful sunsets.
@aeryn Ooh I am a big Billy Talent fan! They are so good for getting the blood pumping 😄
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 17: transcendence (Drew / drewbelf)
@bryan I agree, if only there was a way to "like" something without it become an empty or fake gesture like on FB!
@aeryn The blogosphere can be a very lonely place! It's very easy to feel like you're wasting your time and no one's interested. I love it when people reach out, and I know I should do it more myself, but I too get shy about making contact 😊
@anniegreens Thank you! 😊
@pratik Oh good! They're not strolling around but they are definitely busy doing nothing except people-watching!
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 16: flâneur (Chris / @chrisaldrich) Today’s prompt got me head-scratching. Are these dapper gentlemen flâneurs?
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 15: small (James / @jmanes) I felt VERY small standing under this redwood, looking up into its canopy.
@anniegreens How lovely! I adore trumpet cup lichen.
@DaveyCraney Thank you!
@christopherchelpka It is! Well worth a visit if you're ever visiting that way.
@christopherchelpka It's the Giardini Ravino botanical garden on Ischia. A quirky and lovely little garden with one of the biggest collections of succulent and cactus plants in Europe.
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 14: cactus (Christopher / @christopherchelpka)
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 13: page (Rob / @robj)
@pratik Yes! It's a wire sculpture by Robin Wight, in Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire. There's a trail of around 20 or so wire fairies around the gardens. I think this is probably the best known of them.
📷 April 2024 Photo Challenge Day 12: magic (David / @DaveyCraney)
@amerpie My very first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 back in the very early 80s, but it hardly deserved the name of 'computer' 😅 I just remember playing rudimentary tennis games on it, hooked up to the TV.