My photos in this continuing set of series depict our beautiful world in the hope of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home …
#ScenicSaturday 6th January 2024
A beautiful capture of the River Wye from Stuart Aken. You can see many more of Stuart’s stunning landscape photos by visiting his blog.
Our days are quite short right now, a situation that’s exacerbated because it’s overcast and we’re in a deep valley.
This geography produces beautiful shadows and lake reflections, though. Another advantage is that so far, the snow hasn’t reached us down here!
Happy Sunday.
The vines are sleeping …
… dreaming of plump grapes, green leaves …
… and sunny days. They will soon be back.
Happy Saturday.
Today is the last of the 12 days of Christmas (nope, there won’t be any singing!) and therefore the last of my seasonal poinsettia pictures.
If you observe, I hope you had a lovely winter break and that 2024 is good to you. Until next year.
Alisan (Mount Ali) in central Taiwan is known for the giant cypress trees, train ride to see famous sunrise/sunset and sea of cloud and with numerous…
Alisan National Scenic Area 阿里山國家風景區
Beautiful photos of mountains in central Taiwan from Stephen Hung. He has many more stunningly gorgeous photos on his blog.
Our weather has been very overcast with a lot of rain and drizzle, but sometimes we get little sun breaks that provide an impressive contrast in colour and mood.
The sky, hills and water palette are beautifully offset by the sunlit winter fields.
It’s very wet and the wind can be unpleasant, too, but the wintery greyish-blues and lustrous pewters are gorgeous.
Happy Thursday.
We have had a lot of rain and fog …
… which happily doesn’t accumulate as snow!
Happy Wednesday.
My photos in these continuing series show our beautiful world with the aim of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from …
#ScenicSaturday 30th December 2023
A gorgeous Welsh sunset from Stuart Aken. I hope you take the time to visit his site. Cheers.
While out for our New Year’s Day constitutional, we saw lots of birds.
First, there were some quail. I always find them hard to photograph because they’re so quick and they blend in so well. I love that cute little head feather.
Next, we saw lots of coots with their distinctive white beaks. They were very happily swimming along, looking for a bit to eat here and there. Suddenly, we saw the coots madly scrambling away to a pier, half swimming, half flying. And then we saw the reason why.
A bald eagle was swooping low, attempting to grab a straggler. I didn’t get a picture of the frightened coots because I was mesmerised by the unfolding drama, but I was able to get a couple of shots of this amazing raptor.
The coots were able to hide in the lee of a pier, thus preventing the eagle from getting a good angle on a quick snatch, and once he saw that he was out of luck, he quickly headed away. M and I were amazed at what we had just seen, though!
Happy Tuesday.
To all my blogging friends …
… I wish you a wonderful 2024.
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