Category Archives: Summer

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Barbara

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh This week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave here in northern Europe. We haven’t had a good summer in ages, probably since 2002, so while the country has … Continue reading →

Posted in Boats, Chichester Harbour, England, Photography, Summer, Water | Tagged Chichester Harbour, Fresh, Heatwave, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Postaday, Postaweek, sailing, Sunset, Weekly Photo Challenge | 12 Comments

I remember that summer in Dublin

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Barbara

Whenever the sun comes out in Dublin in the summer, and people start taking lunch breaks in the park, this song comes into every Dubliner’s head who was around in the 80’s In the olden days, as my children say, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dublin, Photography, Summer | Tagged Bagatelle, Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin, Nostalgic, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Postaday, Summer in Dublin, Weekly Photo Challenge | 25 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Camera’s Eyes

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Barbara

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes Last week I posted a photo that I had taken of a blue Geranium, and I mentioned that this photo was the result of a single shot not the … Continue reading →

Posted in Gardening, Photography, Summer | Tagged Bridge Camera, Californian Poppies, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Photography, Postaday, the world through your eyes, Weekly Photo Challenge | 26 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Here is a photo from my recent visit to Dublin that I wasn’t expecting to be sharing so soon! As I mentioned in my post for the photo challenge ‘Fleeting‘ I visited The Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin, with Dad on … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Birthdays, Dublin, Families, Ireland, Mum, Photography, Summer | Tagged Best Night Ever, Bob Quinn, Curves, Dublin, Glasnevin, Postaday, Sculpture, The Botanical Gardens, Weekly Photo Challenge | 20 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting take 2

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Walking on Desborough Island the other day with Wilson, wrapped up in my winter woollies wondering what on earth had happened to our summer (again) my eye was caught by these beautiful delicate blue flowers. It was windy & cloudy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Summer, Weybridge | Tagged Blue Flower, Desborough Island, fleeting, Postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge | 10 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Barbara

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. … Continue reading →