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Sleep What’s That?

I know it happens to everyone one time or another but all the time? I know so much has been written about the subject. I am just going to put my two pence in.

It does not matter how old I am. My sleeping bad habits started many years ago, so I can tell you what I have done over the years to help.

The menopause my have been what started my bad sleeping habits. It may have been something…

A Brrrrr cold Winter walk.

The thing about winter is one, you find it difficult to get up early on your day off to go swimming, two your body starts telling you to do something, anything, just don’t sit watching TV all day. And three, you eventually take a walk in the freezing cold just to satisfy, I don’t know, maybe the nagging voice at the back of your mind, reminding you that come the next day on the way to work you’ll…

Little finch enjoying the garden cousine.

I’m  doing an online photography course: A year with my camera. (AYWMC). My dilemma is, we have just moved into another flat and our WiFi hasn’t been connected yet!

Needless to say,  I’m doing it all on my mobile. Mobiles certainly have come along way! (Nokia. Snake)

Taken from my mother’s day flowers arrangement. From my eldest daughter.

The same…

  We usually ride our bicycles over the weekend but on the May bank holiday we opted to walk.

      There are numerous footpaths around our village.  We saw so much more on foot than when we were on our bicycles, plus we didn’t have to concentrate on balancing.  We talked,  laughted more and took our time. No rush. I had my digital  camera so missed nothing.

Many the footpaths run through farm lands but others take you through green land or bush. Wild flowers, wild birds and rough lands add to the pleasure of being out in the fresh air.

  We stopped and watch the wild drake on the pond. I tried to get closer but the recent rains made the ground wet and boggy but loosing my trainer was part of the fun. I still got my photo.

The beautiful yellow landscape of  rape seed oil stretched as far as the eye can see. The bouquet was absolutely breath-taking. Made me all happy inside. (sorry if you suffer from hay fever). I didn’t know, but the farmers make s big profit from rape seed oil. I thought, in my South Africa ignorance, they planted rape for animal feed only.

Cley next to Sea was a hive of activity being Easter holidays and the Nature reserve was just as busy. Mating season was in full swing.

look at me i’m beautiful!

Goose step.

Wait for me!

    I took the liberty of copying a small excerpt from the nets.

NWT Cley Marshes is Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s oldest and best known nature reserve. It was purchased in 1926 to be held ‘in perpetuity as a bird breeding sanctuary’. It provided a blue print for nature conservation which has now been replicated across the UK. The water levels in the pools and reedbeds are regulated to ensure they are ideal for the resident birds, and reed is harvested every year to keep the reedbeds in good condition.

The shingle beach and saline lagoons, along with the grazing marsh and reedbed support large numbers of wintering and migrating wildfowl and waders, as well as bittern, marsh harrier and bearded tit.

A new eco-friendly visitor centre opened in 2007 containing a café, shop, viewing areas (including viewing from a camera on the reserve). We have since added to this with the fantastic Simon Aspinall Wildlife Education Centre, a courtyard and viewing deck. The view from the visitor centre across the Marsh to the sea is breathtaking.

Mating season!

Let me go!

  I didn’t want to leave but the crowds just kept on coming and we had the photographs we came for. But we will be back when the school children return to school.

Birds…just birds!

I have this dilemma, where to put my photographs to be seen, and critiqued. I know there are many sites. I’m on ViewBug and other.

Anyway, I’ve put them on one my blogs.

This beauty was in the house fluttering around the light.

Frost on leaves.

Mr. Hedgehog on our back step. What is he doing out in this weather?

Loch Long

    Falls of Lora

Loch Long

Loch Fyne

Unknown Scottish Castle

Falls of Dochart

The rainbow or the storm?

The Rainbow..double rainbow!

That little critter again, The Hover fly.

Caught you! Now leave the veggies alone. Baby Blackbird exploring.Who still has one of these. Coming back into fashion.

Who still has one of these? They’re coming back into fashion.  Photograph taken by Don Campbell, years ago.

Visit to Africa Alive…

      The day started off very wet. But once the rain stopped we left for Africa Alive in the evening.

Although it continued to be overcast, I took my photographs.

Great Gray Owl

Great Zulu Dancers

Zebra

Long Eared Owl

Hawk

Barn ow

Mallard duck

Just a tiny cactus…

This little cactus only cost £1.00 and has produced it’s first cactus flower.

A very old tree

  The tree is massive, and so beautiful.

And look! I wonder what lives in there?

If I had the time, I would set up under a ghillie suit with my flask of tea and biscuits  and wait for the occupants to return.