Our "Autumn" photos - October 2019

The theme for this month was "Autumn" and here is what you have all come up with.

I will start with Sue, as she has sent me 2 photos - the first one is a poster/instructions for a flower arrangement from the florist and her second one is her actual finished arrangement.

Sue - my instructions!

Sue - my finished arrangement!

Gill - pumpkin fest!

Kate - flowers and fruit from the allotment

Ken - harvesting the grapes at Denbies Vineyard in Dorking

Keith - the leaves are falling yet the roses linger on

Ailsa - Autumn in Alice Holt Forest

John - leaves on the Leaf!

Jan - autumn ghost

Rosie - autumn harvest

Gaynor - Autumnal Sunday in Cambridge

Angela

Don - long autumnal shadows on Windmill Hill

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 Here is another one from Don from way back in 2007 - I couldn't refuse him as Sue had 2 this month!

The woods in Selborne

Steve - my Autumn project

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with the rugby final happening tomorrow, our topic for November is "Sport" - enjoy!

Our "Music" photos - September 2019

Our topic this month was "music".  However, before we get to the photos, here are a couple of articles that I came across in September that fit in well with the theme.

The first one features various open air rehearsal spaces that musicians use:

https://www.jonenoch.com/jon-enoch-blog/2019/9/16/rehearsal-room-london-musicians-new-portrait-photography-series


..... and this one features old pianos in ruined venues - "forgotten pianos":

https://mymodernmet.com/requiem-for-pianos-romain-thiery/

Jan

Ailsa - Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, taken at Menton, Cote d’Azur

John - George would have been proud of this!

Don - violin sculpture in lobby at C'an Picafort Hotel in Majorca

Helen - a painting by one of the students at Perin's School

Kate - university students busking in Porto

Ken - a wind/aeolian harp in a pavilion in the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh

Angela

Steve - stucco plasterwork harp at St John's House , Winchester

Sue H - "The Musician"

Rosie

Gaynor - the music of language

.......................  and our topic for October is "autumn".  Have fun with it!

A goodbye KIT for Gaynor!

Calling it a GIT doesn't quite work!

8 of us staged the 40th KIT this afternoon in honour of Gaynor who is leaving us in a few days to live elsewhere.

John, Jan, Geoff, Hilary, Anne, Ken, Rosie and Angela had a lovely afternoon in the sunshine playing tennis - Gaynor watched along with a few other people who popped down to say goodbye to her.

In order to fit in afternoon tea we played a shortened version of a KIT with the winners being the 2 people with the highest scores in the round robin matches.

Anne came out on top with a stunning 20 points with Geoff 2nd on 14 points, so they were declared our winners today.

Then we got down to the more serious business of eating and chatting!

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"