Hiya folks, well not a lot has happened here, hence no blogs - then I thought that I could still write a blog but of older photos!!! Just to show you some of the pictures that I love, maybe because of when they were taken or else why they were taken.


If I remember rightly I took this picture when I was in Tunisia - I just loved the various shadows that showed up against the fading sky.


This was taken looking out to sea from Instow. The setting sun is reflected on the wet sand which adds to this lovely picture. The two people standing there on the beach, stood there for quite some time. I was alright, I was sitting down on a bench on the sea walkway.

Dramatic sunset

I remember I was driving around in the countryside with the children and we just couldn't get over the colours of the sky during this sunset. I've not seen a sky like this, before or since.


I remember taking this many years ago - it was one of the prettiest sunsets I'd ever seen. It wasn't cold sitting on the seat on the cliffs' edge. There were many people around me - just clicking away with their cameras. The advent of wonderful cameras on the phones hadn't arrived then. My friend took me there as a treat, and I spent nearly 3 hours just taking pictures!!!!!


This was taken in Ilfracombe, about 25 miles away. The tide was just going out and there was still quite a cover of water over the sands, which made the boats' masts make fantastic reflections.
I took this one after we'd had a few bad days of rain and I just wanted to get out for a while. I drove down to Westward Ho! and just watched the waves coming in. There is a viewing thingy there - but to be honest, I'd much rather take a picture and then zoom in - does practically the same thing as those binoculars.

How could I resist this gorgeous view. This looks down the 3 mile beach of golden sand, but you can't make out the division of the river mouth and then another 5 miles of sand. You can just make out the very exclusive Saunton Sands Hotel - the big white building at the end. It's quite expensive to stay there apparently.

I love it when the tide is almost in - those large boulders were placed there to try to prevent the tide from coming up the slipway and flooding the shops along there. I think they do their job, because it's been a while since the shops up there have been flooded out - we won't talk about last winter, when the high tides clashed with the storm from America - the water came over the top in spectacular fashion!!!! But that's quite a rarity, now.

This is a beautiful part of the river running through Bideford. This is an area locally called "Little America" - it's because people who went over to America to live, all those hundreds of years ago, left from this spot!! Well that's what I've been told. Also Sir Richard Grenville, who came from Bideford, left from here to do battle. Also Bideford is twinned with Roanoke, in North Carolina and a native of Roanoke was brought back here to Bideford, but unfortunately he died of flu whilst here and is buried in our churchyard!

I love seeing this area when the tide is in, because it shows how beautiful it is with the trees just touching the water all along the shoreline. It's superb when the tree leaves change colour during Autumn - the colours of greens, reds, russetts and golds are to be envied.


This was a plant in my garden, that took over a large amount of it, and these blooms only lasted just over a day!!!! I suppose that could account for their name - Day Lilies!!!!! Such a shame for such an amazing flower which deserves to be around for at least a week, so it can be admired.

The mombretia is everywhere in my garden - It's even trying to get through my old car, abandoned on the driveway, it'll look so much prettier if it does manage to do so!!!! These flowers are in great abundance here.


The was next door's beautiful honeysuckle, which was growing all over their rowan tree. It was so lovely in the summer evenings with the back door open and all that scent coming into the house - superb. Of course I've taken loads of pictures of it, and it looks gorgeous, especially with a deep blue sky above it.

I think that honeysuckle is often mistaken for a boring plant - how can anyone call this beautiful plant - boring?

Yes I popped over the fence - well it was more of an ungainly hobble up the steps and over into Ann's garden. She has many fuschias and these beauties were just fantastic. I especially love the delicate pink petals and the maroon stamens - they look like little ballerinas...


Ann also used to have lots of plants climbing all over the fence between her house and mine, and these white flowers looked really good against the fence. Not too sure about their name though - but does it really matter - if it's beautifully easy to grow and give lovely blooms?


Well, these are just some of my favourite pictures, because to be honest I've not been out and about lately and the weather has been very changeable, rain one minute, then sun, then back to rain again. The only difference has been the temperatures. It's gone very cold, especially during the late afternoon, early evening. I've always vowed never to put the fire on before November, but it's almost November isn't it? So it's gone on sooner, I'm afraid!!! My rooms are large - with 14ft high ceilings, so it gets cold. It would be way too expensive to have central heating, so just halogen fires and radiators keep me warm.

I hope you all have a good Halloween - for those of you who celebrate it. The UK is only just starting to and have added another celebratory day to the calendar. I'm lucky having a long dark driveway, because I don't get bothered by trick or treaters!!!