My photo blog

Tuesday, June 29 2010

• CHALLENGE WIN On the shelf - Don't believe it!!!! A win again AND with a $20 voucher again! :)))) The photo isn't a beautiful photo in my opinion but it's just what the challenge asked for "left on the shelf" (abandonné sur l'étagère). OK I can hear you say: "It's that?! That photo won $20 dollars?! Well, yes it did - and (…)

Monday, June 28 2010

• SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH "Z" - Zips - I found lots in my sewing drawer (mon tiroir à couture) that I had kept for "if" (que j'ai gardées au cas ou). I don't sew any more, I don't know why, I used to like it. I also had a zinnia: Zinnias are all colours and stand tall with a stiff stem (une tige raide), I don't like them. I took (…)

Sunday, June 27 2010

• COOL DRINK - It was hot today, over 30 degrees, and I don't particularly like the heat. When it gets to 30° I prefer to stay in the house where it's nice and cool. My house has thick stone walls which protect from the sun and if the windows and doors stay closed it is pleasant inside (à l'intérieur). I have (…)

Saturday, June 26 2010

• YOGURT CAKE - Cooking today: yoghurt cake with dates and walnuts (des noix). It's delicious, I love it; you can do so many different things with the yoghurt cake recipe. Use the yogurt pot for measuring and mix in this order: 3 pots of flour (farine), 1 sachet of baking powder (levure), 1 pot of sugar (sucre), 2 (…)

Thursday, June 24 2010

• CREEPY WORMS - Just look at what I found when I cut open my mackerel today! Yuck!! Disgusting!! Worms!! And one or two were still alive and moving (ils étaient vivants et ils bougeaient)!! Obviously there was no question of eating the fish!! I had just bought them so I immediately took them back to the shop. The (…)

Tuesday, June 22 2010

• ABSTRACT DIGGER - Back to abstract photos today, found on a digger (pelleteuse) that came to redo my drive (entréé). I love the colours on this one. I took the the photos when the driver had gone for lunch because if he had seen me he would have thought I was mad (il aurait pensé que j'étais folle) taking close-ups (…)

Monday, June 21 2010

• GRAPEVINES - Ah yes! It's working again! My photos today are from the vineyards just behind my house, on the first day of summer - and at last with summer weather. The title of the first photo is "Reaching for the sky". The second photo is called "Hanging on". At the top of the plants the stems (les tiges) and (…)

Saturday, June 19 2010

• PROBLEM - I'm having problems with this blog: the "media manager" isn't working and I can't upload (télécharger) my photos. That's no good for a photoblog, is it? I tried yesterday and I tried again today and nothing happens. I don't think it's my fault, it must be the programme Dotclear. (…)

Wednesday, June 16 2010

• LIGHT BULB - It rained all day today, I couldn't take any photos outside, there wasn't enough light. Then in the evening I was looking at the redbubble site,group "Shapes and Patterns" and saw they had a challenge "LIGHT GLOBE SHAPES". Just earlier in the afternoon I had bought a new light bulb to replace one in (…)

Tuesday, June 15 2010

• BEETLES - scarabées - Two small beetles I photographed in my garden. This metallic green one, 10mm long, is called a "fat-legged flower beetle" (scarabée aux grosses cuisses!), you can see why! One site on the Net says "They look as if their wing covers (elytra) have shrunk in the wash because they don't quite meet in (…)

Sunday, June 13 2010

• POPPIES in the garden - Poppies again, but they are just too beautiful (trop beaux!) when the morning sun shines through them, I couldn't resist taking the photo. This is what Wikipedia says about them. "Symbolism Poppies have long been used as a symbol of both sleep ( le sommeil) and death (la mort): sleep because of the (…)

Friday, June 11 2010

• SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH "W" - "w", easy in English, there are a lot of things. Here are my 2 photos: These are wellington boots, or "wellies" as all English children call them. They belong to my 3 year-old grandson, who loves both pairs: one to run in puddles with (pour courir dans les flaques), one to run on the sand (le (…)

Thursday, June 10 2010

• SPRING RAIN - At the moment we're having showers (des averses), in fact the weather is more like April than June. Today they were thunder (orageuses) showers and it rained a lot. When the sun came out again I went out to take some photos of rain drops; sometimes they are beautiful. These rain drops are on a poppy (…)

Wednesday, June 9 2010

• Buns - It was raining today, so we did some baking (nous avons fait de la patisserie). This was the result, not exactly as they were supposed to be but they tasted delicious warm (tiède) with butter! It is an English recipe (recette), like brioche but with spices and raisins, and it was the first time I (…)

Sunday, June 6 2010

• A PORTRAIT - A portrait today. I don't often take good ones because children are moving all the time (ils bougent tout le temps), but she was playing the flute so had to stay still ( tranquille). I took the photo just as she looked up and you can see her beautiful blue eyes. She learnt to play the flute at (…)

Friday, June 4 2010

• TWO WALLS FEATURED! - I'm having a run of success in the WALL OF THE WORLD group on redbubble. I have two photos featured on the same page!! I'm so proud again. Success here means other people think my photos are good, means encouragement to continue taking unusual photos. Here they are: This was the wall of the Adidas (…)

Thursday, June 3 2010

• AIRPORT - I went to the airport in La Rochelle today to pick up (aller chercher) my daughter and my grandson. It was a beautiful day, the plane was on time (à l'heure) and they had a good trip. (Ils ont fait bon voyage). I hope the weather stays fine and they have a good holiday too. I pushed the saturation (…)

Wednesday, June 2 2010

• POPPY - Poppies usually grow in crowds - what is this one doing all alone in the barley field (champ d'orge)? In Scotland barley is used to make whisky, I don't know what they do with it here. I will have to ask my neighbour (mon voisin) the farmer. (…)

Tuesday, June 1 2010

• POPPIES on a wall - coquelicots sur un mur - Nature doesn't need any help in decorating - this is a living wall and it's much better than all the "murs végétals" which are so "à la mode" at the moment; the photo doesn't give it justice. It's the wall of the cemetary, on the outside (à l'extérieur) along the road. I wonder (je me demande) how (…)