Amelia's photos

The Lady Chapel of Glastonbury Abbey is one of the finest late 12th-century monuments in Britain. It was built immediately after the disastrous fire which consumed much of the abbey in 1184, and was completed by 1186 or 1187.

Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot, Richard Whiting (Whyting), was hanged, drawn and quartered as a traitor on Glastonbury Tor in 1539.

Taken in a short moment of evening sunlight, these shadows of plants are backed by a fence painted using 'Black Ash' fence paint.

The Sunday Challenge for 11th June:Create/find and photograph shadow(s). Anything goes, but only shadow(s) in the image. No sun for most of the week, so I had to make do with interior lighting. This is the shadow of a rather lovely wood carving from Indonesia. I found it difficult to avoid the actual wood carving in the limited space I chose. The image was processed using Silver effex The PiP shows how the photo was set up, and uses natural light.

St Michael's Church survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 when, except for the tower, it was demolished. It remains a place of pilgrimage for some. Near the base of the tor when we had walked back down, there were lots of tourists walking up , including 2 women who had taken off their shoes in order to walk on the hallowed ground!

Chirk Castle (Welsh: Castell y Waun) is a Grade I listed castle located at Chirk, near Wrexham, Wales. The castle was built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer de Chirk, uncle of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March as part of King Edward I's chain of fortresses across the north of Wales. It guards the entrance to the Ceiriog Valley. In 1595 Sir Thomas Middleton had bought Chirk Castle for £5,000 with the intention of turning it into his family seat. In actual fact he spent more time at his home in Essex, but he spent vast sums of money on the castle including building the north range and its State Rooms. The family crest included a wolf, which can be seen t on the gates. It is now run by The National Trust.

Having read about weather in Bergen, I arrived by bus at the central lake, dressed in jeans, a lightweight fleece and a fully water proof jacket. After all, it's known as The City of Rain. Armed with a street map, my camera bag and my suitcase, my first stop was here, to remove the fleece and the waterproof. and search inside the suitcase for the sun-cream. A joke is told in Bergen about a tourist asking a local boy if it ever stops raining. "I don't know, replies the boy, I'm only twelve." Another story is told,that horses were frightened when they saw a man without an umbrella.

The Sunday Challenge: A place you love My favourite place is Scotland, particularly St.Andrews where I was brought up, followed by Norway, a beautiful country. Nevertheless, I love walking in to my garden in Shropshire at all times of the year, and this is the entrance to it - straight off the pavement. It's a shame I can't put a link to the scents. It's keeping me very busy at the moment, and I seem to be in there all the time, and not so much on-line. The PiPs show a couple of individual 'treats', Zantedeschia albomaculata, the garden shed which used to be a privy, and Stipa gigantia.

Traditionally, Somerset skittles uses wooden balls (made from apple wood or similar) and wooden pins., so one might well imagine the noise that these young farmers made during the games on this wooden floor.. We felt sorry for a french woman from Alsace Lorraine, who'd chosen a country pub in order to get some peace and quiet, and get some extra work done in the evenings while she attended a daily conference in a nearby town. The WiFi connection was non-existent - she checked out after breakfast the next day!