Amelia's photos

Today's Saturday Self Challenge is: Tell a story creating a collage that uses 2, 3 or 4 images. One combiner and thee tractors with trailers harvest a wheat field. The first photo is near the beginning of the harvesting. The second photo shows trailer that is nearly full. The third photo shows a replacement trailer at the ready to take over. The fourth photo shows a tractor and trailer near the end of the harvest. The whole process was seamlessly completed as we watched from various places around the field.

Today's Sunday Challenge: To use a flashlight/torch for your shot.

For this week in SSC, Saturday Self Challenge: "Something from the Garden" All the flowers in the garden yesterday and this morning were covered in raindrops. I liked the way that the hairs on this cultivated clover plant caught the drops.

HFF to you all, and stay safe.

A given flower is open only for a single day, opening before dawn and closing in the afternoon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus

Henry Tudor House and the Lion Tap were probably built for Hugh Wygan, M.P. for Shrewsbury, as a commercial investment. In 1429. It is a large three-storied box-framed and jettied town property, set parallel to the street. The blurb for Henry Tudor House sounds pretty much OTT. "Give it a beautiful zinc bar bathed in ever changing colours and add a conservatory with elegant chandeliers, framed by stunning iron birdcages. Then combine it with an exquisite oak framed restaurant and a luxurious private dining room." And the garish photos don't do the inside or the outside of the building any favours. henrytudorhouse.com

The work on this part of the Montgomery Canal is largely done by enthusiastic amateurs, although certain parts have been completed by professionals using lottery money. The goal was to complete quite a long section down to where a new winding hole and mooring area has been professionally constructed. However, since the coronavirus pandemic all work has ceased and the target for completion at the end of this year of the section from here to the winding hole is now almost impossible to reach. Not all of the parts of the canal are even 'in water', but the wild life is thriving.

This woodpecker has been visiting this garden feeder about twice a day for about a week. It's the first time we have ever seen a woodpecker in the garden. The photo was taken through a double glazed kitchen window.

The Small Tortoiseshell is among the most well-known butterflies in Britain and Ireland. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of nettles.

Today's challenge: "Bright, bold colours filling the frame, abstract or real"

We could see this white field from about half a mile away and had to get closer to see what it was. It was full of Leucanthemum vulgare (Dog daisies) and spikes of Echium vulgare (Vipers Bugloss).