Amelia's photos

A bronze monument of Clive India, M.P. for the borough of Shrewsbury in 1761 and its Mayor in 1762, stands proudly in the town square. It was erected as a memorial to Robert Clive of India in 1860.

A cooler and cloudier day made it better for a walk around out local town. The return trip:

The theme of the Saturday Self Challenge today is: Anything Made of Glass.

HFF everyone. St.Martin's Church. The medieval church dates from 13th Century and has been enlarged and restored over the centuries, most notably by Sir Robert Walpole, who rebuilt the tower as a memorial to his grandfather Sir Jeffery Burwell in about 1730. The interior is very plain.

The Sunday Challenge: Fill A Glass Container with objects. The glass container may be a jar, vase, jug, etc. The objects may be a collection, identical objects or whatever you want to use EXCEPT liquids. I love the tactile quality of turned wood, and the refractive and reflective quality of glass. So I put the 2 components together in a very false situation. The blue comes from a beach towel thrown over the back of a dining chair. A late entry today. We had a visit from our youngest daughter and grandson who came for lunch.

Thus weeks Saturday Self Challenge: Take a photo of something that is "round" and use a square aspect ratio.

La Mer - Charles Trenet - Beyond the Sea Or if you prefer Mr. Bean. Mr Bean Holiday - La Mer

Managed a walk of about 1.5 miles along the canal there and back before it got too hot. Then had to go for a lie down. ;-)

There is a sign on the side which I haven't been able to translate. I'm sure someone will help. :-)

For today's Sunday Challenge. I had to stand indoors looking through an open window to get a photo of this young sparrow. Not many birds visiting the feeders today - it's too hot!

Saturday Self Challenge: Summer. Take a shot of anything that represents your favorite aspect of the season. At the best of times I do not like very hot summer weather such as we're having at the moment, and am often to be found in our north facing kitchen standing barefoot on the cold quarry tiles. I'm just off to the kitchen now. ;-)

Managed to get a bit further than the back garden this week. :-)) This fence encloses part of the field of our local village school.

The River Church in Hamburg is an an­chor­age for those who seek help, is giv­ing pas­toral sup­port to the in­land skip­pers and reg­u­larly opens its hatches for church ser­vices. Be­low deck the term “nave” is brought to life. Rows of chairs pro­vide enough room for 130 peo­ple. The church win­dows show life and work on the river. If it was­n’t for the oc­ca­sional gen­tle sway­ing, you would hardly know that up un­til the be­gin­ning of the 1950s this was the in­te­rior of a barge. Courtesy of: www.hamburg-port-authority.de/en/themenseiten/portrait-river-church