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Post by 4wd on Dec 31, 2012 16:22:06 GMT
It's getting harder to think up Monthly themes so how about this year we try a '52 week challenge'.
It's really easy and at heart just as an excuse to encourage more pictures to be shared. ;D
As a group, we try to upload at least one photo for every week of the year. It doesn't matter if you forget one week and put it on later or miss out altogether so long as we get at least one each week from someone. You can add as many as you like, or miss a few weeks but the end result should be a long thread which is quite interesting to flick through in a year's time.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 31, 2012 16:24:09 GMT
To make it easier to keep track, consider each week to start Monday and end Sunday so week #1 is already underway!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 18:21:18 GMT
Very good idea, 4wd and brilliant for picking some banners out I hope. Thankyou for the year of themes
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Post by wr on Jan 4, 2013 18:13:29 GMT
Here's one taken begining of the week when we went up to the farm we have in the Beacons to fetch the ewes down for scanning. It's taken with a new camera which I can't get on with. So many different settings and it was supposed to be a simple one for someone like me to use with my sausage fingers.
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Post by rgsp on Jan 5, 2013 9:18:37 GMT
OK, week 1. These are our very first snowdrops, which actually came out 2 days ago. Incidentally, the auto-focus mechanism on my camera simply won't work on snowdrop blooms.
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Post by genuinerisk on Jan 7, 2013 16:08:31 GMT
Bad mobile photo - light was virtually non-existent yesterday morning - but this is Hat sitting waiting while I fed the orphan calf, Holly. She's sitting on our 'squasher', which is operated by the Merlo to squash down all our black plastic etc which gets collected every month...
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Post by davep on Jan 8, 2013 11:36:59 GMT
OH on Beesands beach with Start Point in the background. beach is usually shingle but recent storms have washed it all away, about 8 ft of it judging by exposed rocks nearby. Sorry about dirt on phone lens. Attachments:
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Post by daveb on Jan 9, 2013 18:41:43 GMT
Driving to work this morning, I thought, that moon is looking thin, but I see it's another couple of days to new moon
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Post by rgsp on Jan 12, 2013 11:56:43 GMT
Week 2 A couple of unspectacular but welcome signs of spring not far away. Heleborus Orientalis. Mrs RGSP has quite a number of different Helebores, and these are about the earliest, as well as being rather fine if you bother to bend down and look at them carefully. Otherwise their habit of drooping their blooms can make them a bit disappointing. The aconites are not quite out, but showing enough yellow to be obvious, with cyclamen and cow parsley leaves in the background
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Post by 4wd on Jan 12, 2013 15:55:49 GMT
No sign of snowdrops or aconites here yet, but I was looking at some pictures taken last year on the 14th and the snowdrops were pushing up then - plus we still had some flowers from the previous year. Hoping to get these in to sort another load to go Monday though there does seem a chance of significant snow Monday to disrupt that plan. Nell likes to ride more than she like to have her picture taken
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2013 22:45:46 GMT
These were actually taken on New Year's Day looking north across wheat to neighbour's unsown field and beyond. Same field looking NE from a rather wet patch Almost south from near top of hill - patch near middle of pic, using an odd shaped bit of field, is what is left of the bird food, mainly barley now. The rest of that field [total 30acres including bird patch] was seeded with rape
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Post by 4wd on Jan 13, 2013 9:03:36 GMT
Looks like a bit of patching will be required in the spring.
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Post by wr on Jan 13, 2013 9:16:11 GMT
Strange isn't it that Meg also turns away from the camera 4wd. This was a few days ago when we were going around with the feeder wagon. That ground is still a bit damp Joyce
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2013 9:32:17 GMT
Might be more than a bit of patching I meant to say the large brown field, below the wheat, in the 3rd pic is supposed to be rape
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Post by rgsp on Jan 14, 2013 13:39:24 GMT
Week 3. "The New Pond", Monday 14th Jan, 2013. It must be over 10 years since it was dug now, primarily as a wildlife pond. It's about 40' long by 10' wide, and the bed is a good 5' below ground level, and into heavy almost impermeable clay. It does dry out most summers, this last one being an exception, but I imagine there's a range of creepy crawlies that like it as a damp hole anyway. What made me take the photo was the 4' long lanceolate crystals formed when it iced over last night. They're much more obvious to the naked eye than to a camera, but you can just about see them.
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