Taking part in other people’s challenges.
chimney & an old hot water drum on the roof
same unused chimney
I’ve had fun experimenting with textures on my Nokia Lumia 530, then turning photos into black and white with the Lumia Photo Editor.
Taken for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Take a New Photo
I took a grouse portrait of Vika, too, but saving it for next week: the prompt is animals. 🙂
The temperature was predicted to be 39 C today, and I know it reached 38 in the shade at the side of our house. The change came through late – a bit of thunder and lightning. I took a photo when we arrived at work to-night to clean the office and the amenities at the [boat] trailer manufacturing complex. That stormy cloud wouldn’t oblige me with a streak of lightning, not at the same time as I pushed the button, but it did drop a few miserable millimetres millilitres of rain in our gauge at home. The dog was wet and puddles were full, but where we were there was but a mere sprinkle – not even enough to wet the ground! It is an oddity, but we often get different weather patterns at our end of town to the other!
Nokia Lumia 530, on auto
Phoneography and Non-SLR Digital Devices Photo Challenge:MacroI took the photos below for this new-to-me photo challenge, run by Sally at Lens and Pens by Sally. As usual, I’m using the Nokia Lumia 530, 5MP windows phone camera, on auto, and uncropped unless stated.
The theme for the second Monday of the month: Macro.
Nokia Lumia 530, auto, cropped
The photo of the bee was taken yesterday. I love the way the mint flowers show through its wings. These other photos were taken on this morning’s walk – a small feather, some spider webbing on a pine tree, and looking inside a pink belladonna lily. If you click on the photos you will go to a larger version. They can be clicked on a second time, too.
The proper change is here now, the temperature is falling rapidly. Almost 9pm, the sun is down, it is 22 C and supposed to go down to 15 overnight. Might not need the doona again tonight.
Hmmm, just wondering – I suppose I should have had the camera on the macro setting. 😮
ladybug in the mint
Here are my answers for Week 3 at Cee’s Share Your World. I think I’m a week behind now.
The ladybug is just for my amusement – a splash of colour. That could be an aphid on the left of it.
Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? I thought of celebrities, of long ago dead ancestors, and of various cousins whom I have not yet met. But, in the end, the choice was simple really – my son. We had words late in 2013. It seems that this final culmination of our words since I left his father has led to neither of us willing to reach out to the other. Maybe I could get through a dinner without saying something stupid. And believe me, I do say some stupid stuff when under stress. Enough said.
When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else? I often find myself singing badly – okay I admit it, horrendously – along with favourite tunes. The only time I have sung to anyone else was when I tried to learn the guitar. I sang How Much is That Doggie in the Window? to my captive audience, my two kids. I think it sounded better than my efforts at Tom Dooley but not by much! Oh, forgot. I did sing to my guitar teacher friend – just the once. He suggested I not bother with the singing in future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkLE4X-bbU
Sends shivers up my spine listening to those after all this time.
If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be? A memory for grammar, facts and figures? Yeah! I’ll have a photographic memory, thanks.
What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about? Personal beliefs. Everyone has a right to believe what they want about anything – political views, religion, global warming, anything. Jokes about a person’s core beliefs, with intention to belittle, are nasty. And I respect your right to have your own opinion about that.
Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
Ahh, I’m grateful for the person who found our missing hubcap in the grass and hung it up on the roadside so we couldn’t miss it! We lost it months and months ago, while on a gravel road miles out of town. We weren’t certain where in the ten or so kilometres it had parted company with the car, though we kept our eyes peeled on the same trip each time. Now we can take off the cheap plastic hubcaps. I kept hoping it would turn up. I didn’t want another trip to the wreckers and forking out $25 – $30 for a genuine secondhand one. Been there, done that. Mr R. was shocked when I insisted we only needed to put the plastic cheapies on one side of the car. When was the last time you saw more than two of your wheels at the one glance? Why have shit wheel covers all round!
I’m looking forward to seeing the number 74 coming up on my digital scale and staying there! Later on this week I should manage to start keeping below 75 kg.
Christine R 
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