Amelia's photos

This is the entrance to a new bird hide - not yet open. The improvements in the area include the creation of 3 large ponds, the new viewing area and wild flower areas etc. alongside the Montgomery Canal. The work has been subsidized by monies from the National Lottery fund. So far we have been very impressed, but the birds haven't yet arrived in large numbers. The insect life is very good.

Lake Vyrnwy reservoir was built in the 1880s to supply Liverpool with fresh water. The new lake meant that the farms and houses of the people of the valley would be lost underwater. In order to create the large lake the valley of the River Vyrnwy had to be closed off by the huge stone dam and the whole valley behind the dam which contained the old village of Llanwddyn was flooded. Work on the dam building project began in 1881, and for the next eight years the dam wall at the bottom of the valley was steadily getting higher while the people living in the village went about their everyday lives. The buildings of the old village were knocked down after the people moved out, and even the remains of the dead were removed from the churchyard and reburied next to the new church. The dam itself is pretty impressive, 26m high from the bed of the lake to the sill for the overflow, but almost twice that if measured from the buried foundations to the top of the final structure. The dam is 357m long and the base is 36.5m thick. The level of water in the reservoir was very low yesterday, but not low enough to see the remains of the village. It's going to rain heavily tomorrow, so the level might reach the lip of the dam.

Today's Sunday Challenge is: BROWN. Think about textures and details and lets make brown a bit more special. This is part of a new sculpture in a protected wildlife area. The PiP shows the whole viewing area.

I love the way that pebbles get trapped in the gaps on groynes. These ones are all composed of flint and chalk apart from the red one which is most likely to be sea eroded brick. Houses fall into the sea fairly frequently on the coast of East Anglia.

Symbolism The pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance. The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ. The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer). The flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns. The chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents the Holy Grail. The 3 stigmas represent 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them 5 hammers or 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance). The blue and white colors of many species' flowers represent Heaven and Purity. Courtesy of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora

Today's Sunday Challenge is: 'From Where I Stand' Looking down from the aqueduct in Chirk to the River Ceiriog. Luckily there is a fence to stop me falling 21 metres. The aqueduct is a 70-foot (21 m) high and 710-foot (220 m) long navigable aqueduct that carries what is now the Llangollen Canal across the Ceiriog Valley near Chirk, on the England-Wales border, spanning the two countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirk_Aqueduct

A beauty shop offering manicures, pedicures, brows & bubbles. I have never been in there - and it shows. ;-)

A beauty shop offering manicures, pedicures, brows & bubbles. I have never been in there - and it shows. ;-)

Today's Sunday Challenge is: Patterns

Today's Saturday Self Challenge is: Red and White.

Today's Sunday Challenge is: BLUE