Sail Away

Sometimes you can just imagine you are on a tropical beach looking at azure waters in glorious sunshine...

Isn't it beautiful!

St Ives, 3rd July 2011

So until next time
Gillian

Favourite Photos

These were the best photos I've taken in a long time. I think photos with stormy skies stand out as super dramatic and we had very stormy skies! We were lucky it didn't rain...

(None of these photos have been edited)


Until next time
Gillian

My Family

 I wanted to share some gorgeous family photos I took today at Charlestown, Cornwall. Sean, John and I went there to go geocaching and more on our day there can be found at Adventures in Geoland http://adventuresingeoland.blogspot.com/2011/06/charlestown.html .

Sean on a sea wall

Sean

John and Sean

John 

Sean and John

Me (Gillian)

Until next time

Gillian

Plymouth my way!

Here's a few of my more unusual photos of Plymouth... they are a little grey, but the weather was overcast and drizzly so I think it gives an atmospheric feel- my way of saying there wasn't much I can do about it!

We wanted to do the Plymouth wheel but didn't have time before we had to check out of the hotel.














Loved the way the bird was just sitting there... maybe it understood what it was about!








There were loads of amazing statues and monuments on Plymouth Hoe.



















We really enjoyed the Barbican area- it strikes me as a weird mix of old and new trying to look oldish- but it works for me.


My favourite photo of the day---- John








... and here is my favourite of me- sometimes I do let someone else have the camera!







Have a look at out family blog Adventures in Geoland ( http://adventuresingeoland.blogspot.com/) for more about our day in Plymouth.

So until next time
Gillian

More family photos from the Clay Trail

These are are family photos from our first Wherigo geocache, Treskilling Trek...


My boys...

A photo of me I like...

Me and Sean, complete with my windswept hair...

I love photos with the scene and my family admiring the scene...

























For more on this walk go to our family blog Adventures in Geoland (http://adventuresingeoland.blogspot.com/ )


Until next time
Gillian

Life is in the details

We noticed yesterday that, while we were out walking the Camel Trail,  many people were whizzing along on their bikes missing so much of the beauty around them. So today's blog is to remind us of the small details that make the world so special...

These are the 'details' we noticed yesterday:-

1. The song of a chaffinch that flew to a branch just above out heads and sang for us.

2.The complexity of a dandelion head- a weed but so intricate.

3. Beautiful wild flowers scattered along the banks.

        4. The shape of this tree- unusually well rounded

















4. Little beaches along the river- seen from the path above.

5. Stretches of river you can only find if you explore the smallest paths and go off the main track.












 6. Incredible fungi on posts and rotting trees.

7. Ruined buildings hidden by ivy, trees growing in their midst.

 8. Old station platforms standing as a reminder this was once a railway line.

9. Cornish hedges- branches pulled into woven shapes from where they grow to make good natural boundaries.







10. A heron standing in the river before taking flight.

11. An otter seen from the distance running along the river bank before disappearing from view.



I'm glad we walked and looked. These little details are the most memorable little extras that are there for all to see, but which are not noticed by many.

Until next time
Gillian

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Gillian

What made me "me"

Have you ever wondered why you are like you are? Or why something has happened to you? Psychologists discuss nature versus nurture, but I would take it a bit further and say that I think that everything that has ever happened to me has made me what I am and who I am. I am a product of my environment and my history. Every experience I have ever had has contributed to making me "me", whether good, bad or even  non-memorable.


At times since we got married things have gone against us. (I don't want to detail them here as I don't want to dwell on negatives).  But every time something good has come out of it. Every decision, whether welcomed or not, has contributed to placing me here, where I am now. I sometimes think that it is all part of my destiny, but then that would take away my responsibility for my actions, so perhaps not.


I have to live the life in front of me, making the best of my opportunities, working through the difficult times. I have heard people sat that if you didn't experience bad times you wouldn't appreciate the good. Maybe, maybe not...

Len and Elsie's Wedding Day

The photos today are of my paternal grandparents Len and Elsie Dawson. They were very special people. The sort of people no-one had a bad word for.

My nanny and grandad  (Len and Elsie)

I hope people will think of me like that one day...


Until next time
Gillian

It's a crazy world!

It's a crazy world out there. I write this as French planes shoot down Libyan planes and many Japanese people are homeless and still looking for loved ones. In our modern world we stay up to date with the most horrific events happening thousands of miles away virtually as they happen. And then we just carry on with our lives...


Strangely I think that's the right thing to do. We should feel moved and affected by what we see, but we shouldn't give in to it. We have to keep on living, trying to be the best we can, whilst showing compassion and doing our best to improve the micro world we live in.


I like this quote - "I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."  ~Edward Everett Hale. But I think this one is valid too "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."  ~Mother Teresa.

We found this face at the Lost Gardens of Heligan

So I'm going to keep on trying to make the world a better place in my own small way. I think it's time for some feel good photos...

Natural beauty!

The miracle of bees...

Tomorrow is my show and tell day and I haven't even started a project yet! Oh well, we'll just have to see what I think of to do...

Until then

Gillian