Amelia's photos

November 5th 2017 TSC Challenge: Bottles. I have a few old bottles which I've collected over the years, so this was an easy challenge. The PiP shows by favourite bottle, a MORLAND & Co beer bottle with a marble in the neck.

Saturday Self Challenge: Eyes. Your subject can be a person, an animal or even a teddy bear. Get in close and show us some detail and emotion. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the camera certainly does lie. I see his gentle eyes every day, and have done for almost 35 years, and I have never once noticed all the wrinkles and imperfections. The camera has not managed to find the soul.

Fishing paraphernalia for the shellfish catches.

From here it's possible to see the coast of Ireland in the distance. La mer de Charles Trénet

From this small beach in the south of Kintyre it's possible to see the coast of Ireland in the distance.

Ailsa Craig (/ˈeɪlsə/; Scottish Gaelic: Creag Ealasaid) is an island of 99 hectares (240 acres) in the outer Firth of Clyde, 16 kilometres (10 miles) west of mainland Scotland, upon which blue hone granite was quarried to make curling stones. The now uninhabited island is formed from the volcanic plug of an extinct volcano.

Epimedium on and Autumn Morning. The PiP shows a contrast. of Autumn in our garden.

The Sunday Challenge this week:: Since it is so close to Halloween let's "do something creepy, scary or spooky" with the added challenge being that a mirror has to be part of the image or used to create the image. I have a small obsidian stone ornament on the mantelpiece, which shines gold in some light and black at other times. He isn't threatening at all, but I was very surprised by the effect in a mirror. I used Silver Effex to create this strange illusion.

Dougie MacLean - Caledonia A very sentimental song.

I bought this book many years ago in a second hand book store. I have very little idea about its history, when it was printed, and who signed it; but Mrs.Lankester dedicated the book to Henry Atkinson and Alice Parker in 1875. The book is entitled 'Talks About Plants'. It has gold leaf edging on the pages, and lists of published books in the back, one of them being priced at 6d - 2 1/2p today.