June 2017 Photo Hunt

I am once again joining in with Hawthorn Spellweaver (click here to visit her blog and see links to other people who are taking part). This month she presented us with a list of 10 words.  Another challenging list and I present my selection below!

1   Setting sun

Just love setting suns; such a pity my camera does not capture the vivid colours and scale of

it all.

2   My local wild place
and
6   Mini Beasts

This old metal seat (from a bench some friends were breaking up) is where I used to sit

in my new garden and have a brew.  But not any more!

Look who lives under this seat!  I found out the hard way the first summer here.  I was

sitting having a brew and felt a tickling sensation on my hand - ants!!!

Each summer they return and live under the metal seat.

I leave them to it.  It is hard to sit in most places as there seems to 

be ants everywhere!

3  Mug of my favourite drink in the garden

This was a tough one for me as I rarely have take a drink out into the garden.

It is often too cold for me or there are ants wandering around wherever

I choose to sit.  So my preferred seat is in this chair, covered in 

a quilt I made, with my favourite mug (from a set of 4) filled

with coffee if in the morning or any other time hot water and

I can read and overlook the garden.  A lot of gardening

planning takes place here.  What you can't see is

the veranda outside these patio doors upon which

are various bird feeders.  So I love to sit here

and watch the visitors to the feeders.  

At the moment there are a lot

of juvenille birds.

Great!

4   My kind of beautiful

There are so many objects I regard as beautiful but for several months now I am drawn

to the many and varied bees that live in my garden.

5  Look to the skies

The sky is an amazing place; clouds of different shapes and colours,

planes (domestic and military) and helicopters flying above,

con trails from planes, birds in the air too but you 

just can't beat a lovely rainbow; if you look closely to the right

you will see it is a double one.

7  Rain

June 2017 started off wet which was so disappointing as we'd had some good weather

but like a typical English summer, it did not last (well not until mid June when

we had a mini-heat wave!).  Anyway, here we are parked at the view point at 

Pinhaw, a favourite place of ours.  In the distance we could see the rain

rolling in.  We did think we might walk up to the trig point but

decided against it as we did not fancy getting wet!

8  Something summery

Look was a change in the summer weather did!  This is the River Ribble at Settle after a few

days of rain.  I seem to recall my childhood summers were long and hot and the

tar always melted!!!  Since 2004 when Beloved bought some fields nearby

we've become more aware of the summer weather as we have to get our

grass cut and gathered in.  A lot of the summers since then have been poor.

I hope the above picture is not what this year's summer will be!

9  Urban wilderness

I like to see wildlife in my garden as well as elsewhere.  I feel privileged

that birds and critters like my garden.  This little cheeky mouse

certainly liked the fat balls!

10  Own choice

We moved to this area in September 1983 and the other day we decided to climb to the top of

Pendle hill!  This is not quite the top as it was too windy there.  But you have to believe

me that I did make it to the top!  So pleased we did it.  It is about 557 m high (1827 feet

in old money).  I've poor knees and coming down did not do

them any favours.   I think we would like to go to the top again but take a

gentler route, albeit much longer!

Well that's my offerings for this month.

Now I must go and look at everyone else's photos.  Don;t forget you can click here to see other people joining in with Hawthorn this month.