5 in 5 in the spray at WSM

On Friday I went through to Weston Super Mare to visit Miriam – after a lovely lunch with plenty to laughter and chat we went for a walk at the water front – I’ve been intrigued with this sea wall path since I first saw it on Miriam’s blog – it really does look as if people are walking on water

and with the tide coming in we almost were walking on water as spray from some waves came over onto the path – much laughter as we avoided wet feet

but of course crashing waves make for fabulous photos if you get the timing right

both from the side and looking down

Looking out to sea the sun was shining in beautiful contrast to the dark clouds

Lovely to admire a different coastal view with fun company – thank you Miriam.

And thank you to Sandie for the monthly prompt to share 5 photos taken in one go (it may have taken more than 5 minutes in this case!)

Pair of photographers

When I was thinking about different kinds of linked photo pairs back in December, one that I really wanted to use was - photographer and what was being photographed.

My wander with cameras with blogfriends Miriam, Maggie and Barbara at the weekend provided the perfect opportunity as we all admired the light and colours on the water sculptures

 

I expect Bristol sculpture will feature in some other pairs this week!

Looking forward to seeing what has captured your eyes this week

Me on Monday

back home in front of my computer and enjoying my photos from a weekend away to the Bristol area and meeting blog friends in real life – not as scary as non blogging friends seem to perceive meeting people you ‘met on the internet’.

After all we already know bits and pieces like pets and offspring and recent happening and who else can you share thoughts like ‘perhaps Rinda will want us to take a photo of a big bunch of balloons this year’ or ‘are weathervanes sufficiently trans Atlantic for the scavenger hunt’ or ‘remember how hard the unicycle was, and an angel and the sunrise’. 

But lovely to now be able to add the timbre of the the voice and the laugh and smile when reading posts from Miriam, Maggie and Barbara.

We had fun with our cameras and couldn’t resist the reflective properties of a large shiny dome

 

 and then Miriam’s son kindly came to take a group shot of us all (and a lovely bronze 17 year old poet)

  

as you can see we were blessed with a sunny day.  More photos from our wander with cameras later in the week!

Waving to you all and celebrating meeting blog friends in real life and hoping for more of it.

blogland baby shower for Cate

When Deb sent out an invite to an online baby shower for Cate I was intrigued, mostly because I’ve never attended one.

Deb’s idea was for us scrappers to create the basics of a page, using Cate’s favourite purple, so that Cate could then add a photo and some words and have a lovely album of her newest baby. Well I have plenty of purple stuff so putting together a page was fun.

I didn't really send her the photo of Carrie, me and Deb! I just preferred the photo of the page when I had a photo in place and that one was on my table when I made this in late April.

I though that Cate could use the ‘5’ in various ways – 5 days, 5 weeks, 5 favourite something, 5 facts, a hand or foot closeup (5 perfect digits) etc

So raising my glass to Cate and her new baby and to Deb for organising the shower and off to check out what else is happening for this blogland baby shower

Deb was in town !!!

Back from a lovely weekend in London to meet Deb and Carrie, and Alison and Mel.  Such a strange mix of familiar and unfamiliar – known lives in previously unheard voices; conversations using real names rather than blog pseudonyms; chat in real time on several topics. 

I met up with Deb, Carrie and Alison for breakfast at the hotel and then a wander around Covent Garden market as it awoke. Plenty of chat and touch and laughter and of course photos of everything, including some up and downs.  So refreshing to be around other scrappers when whipping out the camera to take photos of everything. 

Then the number 9 bus to Kensington for lunch with 7 more scrapping bloggers.  Again plenty of camera action amongst the chatter and laughter.

Indeed the novelty of all the photo taking inspired my first layout of the weekend.

the bottom right photo is Ruth doing the series of photos of each of us with Deb and Carrie – and here is mine

We did take a group photo in the restaurant – but took pity on the helpful waiter and agreed to share the image rather than pass him 11 cameras.

So lovely to meet blogfriends who have been part of my life since Shimelle’s blogging class in 2009.