Amelia's photos

This week The Sunday Challenge is: SKIN Donovan - Mellow yellow

The Saturday Self Challenge today: Take a photo of anything that flies or floats in the air. It can be a bird, butterfly, plane or even a balloon. Use your imagination and have fun. This photo shows a flying plane towing a glider that will eventually float to earth. The first PiP is of honey bees on blackberry flowers. One is flying the other is resting. The second PiP shows a male Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) resting

During the 15th and 16th centuries, people were burned here for their religious beliefs. Though the number of people executed here is not known, there are three mentioned in 1428, half a dozen during the first half of the 16th century and up to 50 burned during the reign of Queen “Bloody” Mary. The Lollards were a somewhat rebellious movement which preached anticlerical and biblically-centered reforms. The Lollard movement was a precursor to the Protestant Reformation.

Norwich Market is an outdoor market consisting of around 200 stalls in central Norwich, England. and it has been in operation on the present site for over 900 years. Many changes have been made over the centuries, the latest being in 2005 when the existing rows of stalls were replaced with "pods" of four stalls each. The building on the left is the City Hall . It is an Art Deco building completed in 1938. The building straight ahead is the Norwich Guildhall which was the centre of city government from the early 15th century until its replacement by City Hall. The exterior provides an excellent example of flint work

The Sunday Challenge this week is courtesy of Sami: Palindrome. The PIP is a ROTATOR

Today's Saturday Self Challenge: Diagonal Lines in Black and White.

Originally founded as an Augustinian priory in 1201, the house has seen a number of transformations over the last 800 years, shaped by its many and varied owners. Now it reflects the life and passions of Mottisfont’s fascinating last owner, society hostess and arts patron Maud Russell.