Category: Images

Nathan and Sarah: the Announcement

Yesterday I went to a friends announcement/proclamation at the Yorkshire House in Lancaster. It was a Pagan event wherein the couple announced their intent to marry close to Midsummer 2011 and expressed their love for each other. Afterward we retreated to the comfort of H&N’s house for a festive Blót.[1]

What follows below is a series of images from the event (please just click on the thumbnail for a larger image).

[1] Note that this didn’t involve much sacrificing of Equine livestock, unless you count the threat to Dexter one of my son’s cuddly toys.

Walk to Work 2: The Sequel

(with title dues to Getty for his admiration of IT people’s blogs and their stunning vagaries of content and announcement).

So, today it was another clear morning, and it was also cool and frosty (there have been some small frosts in the past couple of weeks but not as widespread as this mornings), and since I once again had my camera with me I decided to take photos once more. I walked the faster way to work today so no pictures of the canal, just the River Lune.

My apologies for the rather boring and obvious captions ;).

The Ashton Memorial

Frosty Leaves

Close up showing the frost crystals

Looking out over the river from next to the weir

The Quay looking towards the Castle and Priory

Skerton Bridge with the river at a low ebb

Walk to work

Okay it is a pretty boring title, but it does explain the post rather well, so there we have it.

I took a long walk to work this morning, well longish, instead of walking through the city centre, I took a walk along the river to the aquaduct where I joined the canal that runs along the back of Lancaster and right past the offices. The walk is about 5km and is quiet and on a great autumnal day like today it is a refreshing way to clear the cobwebs out of the synapses and contremplate the tasks of the week.

I took a few photos, the best of which are below for your pleasure.

The bridge near to the Golf Course

I liked the reflection

Sunlight causing light trails

There were a lot of birds sunning themselves

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Entering the area with former industrial buildings

Loved the angles in this bridge, I will have to revisit this and take more photos

The Roman Catholic Cathedral and ducks on the canal

Silly -Yellow- Kitty

My silly cat has been brushing against the flowers I bought Leigh for our anniversary and has manages to stain himself yellow. Lillies are poisonous to cats and I hope I have got most of the pollen off. He doesn’t seem to have been eating them, just brushing against them – but he has obviously smeared the pollen over himself and licked it in – with luck he hasn’t done himself any lasting harm – apart from being dyed.

Rotating Headers

You may have noticed that the header on this site contains images that change when you hit page refresh or navigate around the site. All the images were taken by me and are only to be used on this site – I will supply images on request.

The images do not load quickly, there is an option to pre-load images for the site but there are so many of them – at a decent compression quality – that I turned this feature off to allow the pages to load at a faster rate.

Anyway – enjoy – try presseing refresh to see a new image 😉