Just practicing on a dramatic sunrise.
Collared doves, wondering when their seed waitress is going to stop clicking and start serving breakfast.
I know he's not in focus but I like this chaffinich posing on my otter. (Nasturtiums are still blooming!)
I have tried for ages to get a good pic of a dunnock but I'm going to have to make do with this dunnock's bottom.
Anything still flowering? Well yes the hydrangea is looking gorgeous,
the fuschias are still dancing,
and the Mum is in her prime.
A short day, 3:30pm and the sun goes down in moody blues as rain rolls up the loch.
Wow, your new camera takes great shots, I'm sure the photographer has a little to do with it as well. LOL.
ReplyDeleteLove your otter, he is so green and mossy!Smudge is pretty cute too, not as green though.
You know, I don't know which I enjoy more. Your cats or your garden. Your photos are so beautiful. Congratulations on your new camera!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures with that new camera. Why is it that the cat always claims the box when something new comes into the house? Very cute.
ReplyDeleteEvery picture tells a lot , and I love them all. That cat reminds me of a kid. Kids can play with a box for hours, too!
ReplyDeleteI love the picture your mossy garden. I wish moss grew like that here.
ReplyDeleteI've enjoyed reading your blog and will return. Wow, that Hydrangea is gorgeous, such a deep colour. Are you happy with your new camera? Did you get the Canon Powershot? I got a Powershot A1100IS for my birthday in September, but I still don't know how to use it properly. I usually just take all my photos on automatic.
ReplyDeleteYou are so, so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm seething with envy over those fuchsias ...
Hallo, hallo, everyone, thanks for looking in and sorry it's taken me so long to get back here.
ReplyDeleteHi Deborah, I love my new camera, it seems to be totally numpty proof. I'm surprised Smudge isn't as mossy as the otter, she's just as inert!
Noelle, thanks, cats and cameras are definitely part of my recipe for happiness.
Janie and Tayana, lovely to see you both here. Smudge is still fixated on that box. I can see it is going to have to stay on the sofa until one of them (cat, box or sofa) falls apart. I wonder if Schrödinger actually had a cat with a box fixation.
Hi Sylvana, I find it hard to visualise a garden without moss. It creeps over everything here but it hides a multitude of sins and helps keep an untidy garden picturesque.
Jo, yes I'm very, very happy with it. I bought a powershot originally but when it arrived the macro didn't work. I returned it and had a rethink. I didn't really like the layout of the powershot so on advice from a friend switched to a panasonic DMC-FZ38. I'm still getting to know it. It's a huge leap from a little point and click Kodak but so rewarding. I'm do use intelligent auto but find the close-up mode gives better focus for flowers and am messing about with the programmable mode for the zoom shots of birds.
Hi Sue, thanks, yes the West coast is gorgeous but there are times when I would very happily swap it for a balcony garden in Milan!
I looked at the Panasonic ones too. There is an award for you on my blog. I hope you will accept it.
ReplyDeleteOoooh Jo! Exciting. I'm off there now.
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