Category Archives: Art

Weekly Photo Challenge; Geometry (2)

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Barbara

I was about to crop these photos, and then I found my kaleidoscope camera on my iPad 🙂 Now to pick my favourites… Below is a slideshow of the rest… hover your mouse over the photo to find the navigation … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Photography, Symmetry | Tagged Butterfly, Geometry, nature, Postaday, Swallowtail, Weekly Photo Challenge | 14 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge; Geometry

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Barbara

My husband took these stunning photo of a Swallowtail Butterfly quite a while ago. I was tempted to crop the photos to create a cryptic photo, but I like the photos too much as they are! Here’s the Weekly Photo … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Photography, Symmetry | Tagged Butterfly, Geometry, nature, Postaday, Swallowtail, Weekly Photo Challenge | 23 Comments

Daily Reflections

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Barbara

I took this photo today during our walk beside The Broadwater, which is really near our house. The walk beside the lake was really overgrown for years, but now that they are reclaiming some of the water meadows beside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Symmetry, Water | Tagged Broadwater Lake, Foliage, Photography, Reflections | 17 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge; Happy

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Barbara

This gallery contains 20 photos.

The Challenge this week is to create a gallery of happy photos, or photos that make me happy! Taking photographs makes me happy & I love when they come out well, like the little bird I found on a wall … Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged Cairo, Camels, Egypt, Graduation, Honeymoon, Postaday, St Barbara's Church, Wedding, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wilson | 21 Comments

Shoes – The perfect antidote to a rainy Monday

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Barbara

I discovered shoes relatively late in life. As a teenager I wore Dr Martens, pretty much non stop. The Dr Martens website suggests that everyone remembers their first pair of Dr Martens. Well yes of course we did! They were … Continue reading →

Posted in Shoes, Shoes, Weddings | Tagged Abigail's Party, Boots, DM's Shoes, Docs, Dr Marten, Imelda Marcos, Irregular Choice, Melissa, Vivienne Westwood, Weddingtons | 37 Comments

A Beautiful Peacock

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Barbara

A very beautifully coloured Peacock I think… would love some shoes in these colours! 🙂 I saw it just wandering along the grass verge in Addlestone & just had to stop and take some photos of him! (I presume he … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Shoes, Teenagers | Tagged Birds, Peacock, Photography | 10 Comments

The White Girls Dancing

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Barbara

Charley & Hettie Webb cartwheeling in unison during ‘The Future’ The photo is not mine, but I can’t remember the source. Will update this post if I find it. Photo taken during his visit to Dublin this September.

Posted in Folk Music, folk rock, Music, Poetry | Tagged Leonard Cohen, The Webb Sisters | 2 Comments

There is a crack, a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Barbara

Leonard live at the National Stadium, Dublin 1988 I WAS THERE! I was only 19, and had spent the previous 4 years being lulled to sleep and indulging in depression with Leonard’s first 3 albums, very typical of teenagers … Continue reading →

Posted in folk rock, Getting old, Life, Music, Pain, Photography, Poetry, spoken word | Tagged Dear Heather, I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen, National Stadium Dublin 1988, Old Ideas, Old Ideas Tour, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ8, Songs From A Room, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs of Love and Hate, Ten New Songs, The Future, Various Positions, World Tour 2008 - 2010 | 9 Comments

Beauty in Mathematics

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Barbara

This is a really great article from Cartesian Product! I love how incredibly complicated ‘sets’ get once you have more than 3 circles! 🙂 Most of all I love the pictures Venn diagrams for 11 sets