Amelia's photos

SC189 - Post 22 March - Animals in the wild Well here is today's challenge photo, and who can identify the feert? The toes of coots are not webbed like those of ducks. Instead their toes have distinctive lateral lobes that are indented at each toe segment. One advantage of lobed feet over webbed feet is the ability to run, webbed feet would make doing so more difficult. Coots are very good runners and in fact they run across the surface of the water in order to take off. Webbed feet would hinder that ability.

SC188 - Post 18 March - Dutch Artists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoes_(Vincent_van_Gogh) As a tribute to Vincent van Gogh, I have chosen to take a photo of my well worn gardening shoes. Once upon a time they were shiny and red, but now they are very faded and scruffed, but comfortable. On the left shoe it's possible to see a black paint splash. This latest addition happened just this past week when I was painting some new trellis. The shoes are placed on the quarry tiles in our kitchen.

Overlooking a viaduct carrying rail traffic, shown here in this photo, and an aquaeduct by the side of it.

I love primroses, and planted a couple of clumps of them in the adjacent border about 7 years ago. Since then they have escaped the border and now are rapidly colonising the path, seedimg everywhere. Nearby there are residents who are lovers of the brash polyanthus hybrids, and the resuts can be seen here. We now have pure white, dark yellow, red, and even bluish hybrids amongst the 'proper' primroses.

SC187 - Post 11 March - Rhythm Rather an unimaginitive effort for this week's Sunday Challenge. But there is a definite sense of movement when a newly cleaned pan is replaced here, and I have even tried 'ringing noises', hitting the pans with a wooden spoon. I doubt that the resulting 'music' will reach the top 20 in the charts. ;-)

This reminded me of a giant insect.

Sunday challenge 186: Free subject When I left school at 18, I got a job with the Institute of Aviation Medicine, the IAM, a subdivision of the RAE, the royal Aircraft Establishment. Everything was exciting in those days, and I joined the gliding club which met at weekends on the airfield. The glider was towed using either a Jaguar car or a Tiger Moth. I have been in the latter several times, towing a glider, and actually have taken the controls for a short time. Both the gliding and the Tiger Moth expriences live in my memory, and I often wonder how I was such a daredevil. These days I'm just an old lady with a camera. ;-) This photo was taken at the Cosford Air Museum, as was the PiP.

HWW evryone

This view can be idyllic, but when the river levels are high then the area gets flooded. The bridge, the English Bridge, is one of many bridges across the Severn in Shrewsbury, and is one of the main two, the orher being the Welsh Bridge. The others are mostly foot bridges, althouh there is a rail bridge too.

C185 - Post 22 February - 4x4 composition

SC184 - Post 15 February - Portrait This is Ruth who runs our village cafe, Café XI. She was very happy to allow me to take her photo. I particularly like the reflections of the cafe windows in her spectacles, and the distortion, through the glass, of bottles on the shelf behind her. It's always a pleasure for people to meet here to exchange gossip, bemoan the news or the weather, and keep up to date with village affairs. The PIP is of John, who was outside the cafe, selling beautiful arrangements of Valentine's flowers that his wife makes. He is Ruyton born and bred, and works in a nearby local vineyard.

The Anderton Boat Lift is a two-caisson lift lock near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in North West England. It provides a 50-foot (15.2 m) vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. We were lucky enough to hitch a lift up from the River Weaver to the canal, by a charming couple of boat owners. The only way to get this view of the boat lift. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderton_Boat_Lift#Planning_and_design