Our "Sky" photos - August 2019

The theme for August was "Sky".

Your bonus picture this month is one that Kate took on 6th August 2019 of the notification sign that went up in 2018!

Kate has called this "Pie in the Sky!"

Angela - Bristol balloon festival

Don - stunning rainbow over our garden!

Sarah - duck!

Sue - the sky at Gurnard IOW - In front of fave pub

Steve - Con Trails

Ken - "Ground Control to Major Tom" - one of those painted stones that are left for children to find and post photos to Facebook.  This was left outside our house.

Gill - sunset

Kate - sunset from a garden in Bentworth

Keith - the sun fading over the rooftops of our house and our neighbour's

Ailsa - evening sky at Mijas

Jan

John - dark sky

Gaynor - skyline from carriage

Rosie - IOW evening

Helen - garden sky 

Sophie - London sk-eye

..........  and our topic for September 2019 is "music"

Cycle ride on The Glorious Twelfth!

Imagine sunny skies and 5 lycra class athletes on top of the  range road bikes – now dismiss that whole scenario as being nothing like it was on the day!

John, Jan, Tony, Hazel and Ken braved/beat the weather on Mon 12th August to ride from Alton up to The Golden Pot, across to Long Sutton, Well, Bentley, Isington and Holybourne – where we had a lovely lunch at The White Hart.  

Despite a couple of heavy downpours during the ride it was all very enjoyable – a special mention should go to Tony & Hazel who did well to cycle back up through Farringdon to Four Marks before the rain returned.

Our "Pattern" photos for July 2019

Here are your submissions on the theme of "pattern(s)"

Sarah - very special stripes

Jan - Hampton Court

John - Yarmouth, IOW

Keith AO - straight line patterns at the vineyard

Ken - silver birch leaf in my garden

Sue H - a Slovakian church

Rosie - alien? No, it's a tomato...

Don - ‘Celebrating US Independence Day when our son and his family arrived here from Houston on the 4th July’

Kate - my daughter's knitting

Gaynor

Gill - my lampshade

 
Helen - plant patterns in the glass house at Osborne House


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......................................  our theme for August is "The Sky"

Walk - Mon 22nd July 2019

7 of us enjoyed a relaxing walk through the beautiful countryside around Old Alresford this morning - finishing up at The Globe for an excellent lunch.

Picture with Geoff and not Ken

Photo with Ken and not Geoff

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here are a couple of photos that Keith took on the walk:

No wine for a few years!

Ripples down by the chalk stream

Our "Doorway" photos for June 2019

Our topic for June was "doorway".  

There is a slightly different start to this month's entry though.

Firstly I thought you might like to see some of these National Geographic photos that have just been published:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/contests/travel-photo-contest-2019/


and secondly Sue H was keen to include 2 images under the guise of a quiz question!  Here is the first one and the other one will feature at the end - it will make sense when you get there I think!

Sue H - what do you think is behind this door?

Steve -  in Plockton

Sarah - a doorway to the forbidden garden

Ken - the fabled doorway between the kingdoms!

Don - rear doorway to Stoke Fleming church (near Dartmouth, South Devon)

Keith C -  sequoia tree

Ailsa - Puerta de la Justicia, Alhambra, Granada

Gill

John - Totland, Isle of Wight

Keith AO
This walkway of trees was like stepping through a doorway out of the city of Washington and into the country. The beautiful botanical gardens were quiet and peaceful.

Angela - The Italian Door

Kate - doorway to a secret garden

Gaynor - Dublin 4, match your car to the door

Helen

Jan

Rosie - a slightly overgrown doorway





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here is the visual answer from Sue to her question at the start: 

.........   and the topic for July is "pattern"