Rainbow

These photos don't actually convey the vivid colours of the double rainbow that we saw one evening last week. Wish my little point and shoot had a wide enough lens to get the whole rainbow in one shot.

 

I never did find the pot of gold.

September Sunrise

This morning I woke up to what I thought was flashing lights showing through the curtains. When I got up to investigate, I realised that it was the sun shining through the trees on the opposite side of the road. The wind was so strong the trees were moving in front of the sun and this caused a dappled effect. I got my camera and took a few shots; as we overlook a main road and I couldn't very well open the windows so I took the pictures through my rather grubby windows. I was just finishing getting dressed when the door bell rang and it was the window cleaner...could have been embarrassing! He forgets that I no longer work and don't have to get up so early, I think I'm his first call of the day.
Now I'm waiting for the rain...because it always rains the day my windows are cleaned but so far the wind has kept it away...and I can see out much more easily. Only trouble is I need to clean the insides now. What do they say make hay while the sun shines...I prefer never do today what can be put off until tomorrow!!

Archives:
2008: Witty Wednesday-63 Helicopter Ride
2007: Have you played at Google Earth

China #9 View from The Jin Mao Tower

To get a bird's eye view you need to take the elevater to the top of The Jin Mao Tower
Looking from the top of this across to the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre makes it look very close. Now don't you think it resembles 'a giant bottle opener'! The original design was for a 'circle' but there was a very good reason why the Chinese wouldn't approve of that design (link will explain if you are interest).
Once you get to the the viewing area you can walk around but there is no outside viewing gallery so all the pictures are taken through glass. Oriental Pearl TV Tower
It was quite hazy and the colour variation on different cameras is quite marked (not sure I altered mine for the better).This last picture is the view looking down to the ground floor from the centre of the tower.It made me feel a bit wobbly looking down there!

Archives:
2008: Fun Monday-72 My wardrobe re-visited
2007: Meme

Fun Monday # 99 2nd Anniversary Edition

Fun Monday has been running for two years now and I'm sure when Vikki and Willowtree spawned the idea they did not imagine that it would become a weekly staple for many of us.

Julie over at Another Chance Ranch is our delightful host for this anniversary edition of Fun Monday and she is taking us back to it's roots. This is what she says:

"I have decided to put a twist on the traditional Fun Monday. Instead of standing in your front door and taking a photo of what you see outside, let's turn around and take on of the inside".

Now, I'm letting you see things as they are, even though you will see my muddles and junk.
This is looking into my front porch, lots of shoes, some towels in case it's very wet, my mother's walker and a few plants. You can see the edge of a step ladder that I hate having in full view, but it's handy to grab in an emergency and Embee likes to keep it there.
I know many of you will have seen my hallway, but this is what you see when you enter the house. I couldn't get everything in but it's just a few chairs and a hall tallboy(not in view). The unit you can see belongs to my daughter, (there is a story to it but I won't bore you with it here), and I had nowhere else to put it!
Either side of the hall I have paintings and plate racks to display some of my blue and white china.

FM-21 What hangs on my wall

I wonder if we can keep Fun Monday going for another year! Head over to Julie to see who else is letting us view inside their front door.

Archives:
2008: Crouching Spider Sculpture
2007: Pink Saucepans

I'm not singing in the rain

The weatherman got the forecast correct for last Sunday and we had a lot of rain, heavy winds and apart from a brief break through of the sun during the morning it remained pretty dark all day. After the not very successful video of San Francisco I wanted to try again (you know the old say if at first you don't succeed....) so for the want of anything more interesting I decided it would have to be the view of the rain from my dining room window. Today a week later the weather is pretty much the same although not quite as much wind, well not outside the house anyway!


The background rustling of paper is Embee and you can just hear the radio, and then I answered Embee's question~ well at least I know the sound works!!

When I look at this video and compare it to what I was doing this day last year it makes me feel really depressed.

Archives:
December 9th 2006: Mijas

Fun Monday # 16 What I see when I look out of the door!!

'Vicki is our host this week and she wants to see Spring pictures from our front door please, and also could you take a picture out your backdoor to satisfy her nosy sweet tooth? (her words not mine)'.

Vikki hosted the first Fun Monday back on 22nd January when she wanted to see the view from our front door; this was mine, should you want to have a look at the winter view.

I've made a little slide show to give you a tour, I am still in the process of planting up my tubs so the back yard is still a bit bare at the moment:

Remembering all the snowy scenes from last time I'm really looking forward to seeing your 'view' now spring is here.

PS having just viewed the published version I am disappointed the video is not as clear as when I play the original not sure why that is. I uploaded from you tube but kept it for personal use so I wonder if that makes a difference!!

PPS I heard from WT and My4kids that my video was not playing (I will not be beaten! I will master this if it kills me or sends me dotty in the process!) I hope after going back to square one it's working now, I'm sure you will let me know if it doesn't thanks.