Mid Winter Thoughts

Whichever mid-winter festival you celebrate, may it be a good one for you.

I am unable to provide a partridge in a pear tree, but here's a pheasant on a wall.

And because it's Christmas and this blog is supposedly a photographic experiment with words, here's a Christmas poem by me from the website of Acumen Poetry Magazine, Falling Like Feathers

Wimpole Hall Winter Lights

I've visited Wimpole Hall many times over the years - it's just up the road from me. I've never got around to visiting its winter light show, however. See my post on Longstowe Hall and Gardens for other things I've not previously done because they are so close to home.

This year has been a time of doing things I've been meaning to do for a long time, but have never got around to. December was the month for visiting Wimpole Hall's winter lights. 

There follows some of the many, many photographs I took on my camera and on my phone as I wandered its muddy but wonderfully illuminated trails. Photographic quality is variable, but the lights were entirely magical.

Summer - Autumn - Winter?

I haven't posted here for a while, but I have still been taking photographs, walking and writing. In the meantime we've gone from summer to autumn, back to late summer, onto autumn again, and we might soon be headed for winter, if the weather forecasts are right.

Before the winter chill descends, here are some photographs taken during the summer - autumn shuffle in this eastern corner of Britain.

A Tourist in Amsterdam

This year for my holiday I went to Amsterdam. As per my previous post, this is a place I've been meaning to see for a long time, but somehow never got around to it. Silly me.

Taking the Eurostar, I travelled through England, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, eventually ending up in Amsterdam. It's a lovely, lovely city. 

I took well over two hundred photos on my SLR and my phone camera (I had a bad experience with an SLR many years ago in China, and ever after I've not been comfortable relying on just one piece of photo-taking equipment) and as much as I love them all, and the fantastic holiday they represent, you will not want to see all of them. Trust me.

I've narrowed it down to about fifty eight photographs, mostly taken on my SLR, but with a few phone pics thrown in for good measure. That's over double the number of photographs I aim for in a blogpost. Sorry. Did I mention that I found Amsterdam to be a really lovely city?

Anne Frank House

Royal Palace

Rijks Museum

Sail 25 Event

Buddhist Temple - China Town

Rembrandt's House

Amsterdam Centraal Station