Close up....

Hiya! Still around!!

Do you know what this is???

Still wondering........








Well, it's this! A Pineapple Votive Holder that hubby actually picked up on one of his trips.


Keeps the flame very safe... ;)

It's Sprung!!

Ok, I thought I'd never get to this post! I watched as budding flowers and snow swept landscapes were posted, and hoped for a sign... from spring. And then today happened! Not only is it the glorious new and improved first day of daylight savings time, it is also the day spring sprung!

First, I spotted this in the flower bed.... daffodils to come...



then... a crowd gathered on the bank of the Rock River to behold the ice flow...



Spring has sprung! Yippee!!

A Bridge Too Far

OK, this is probably the most famous land-mark in my little hometown of Marlow - our bridge.

It crosses the River Thames with Marlow on the Northern side (left in the picture) and Bisham (pronounced Biss-um) on the Southern side. Marlow is in the county of Buckinghamshire and Bisham in Berkshire.

The bridge was designed by William Tierney-Clark and built in 1829. Tierney-Clark designed many suspension bridges including the first such bridge to span the Thames in London, Hammersmith bridge, and his most famous design, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge across the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. Marlow bridge is an identical but much smaller prototype for that bridge.

The view above is from Higginson Park (see my close up post) and shows All Saints Church on the left - it's one of the most famous views on the River Thames.

Here's a picture taken from the bridge showing the church and the construction of the bridge

(that's me in the red coat!)

So - Do you have one of these?

If you're interested there's more about the bridge here

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All right Mr DeMille...

I'm ready for my close up!

...can you guess what it is??

It's this -

a wonderful huge London Plane tree in Higginson Park on the Thames in Marlow. Taken this afternoon on a wonderful Spring day....look - no coats!!!

I have a very strange obsession with the texture of wood and cannot resist touching wood if I see it anywhere....

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Spring? What's that?!

There has been no spring in the Alaskan Great North, but it has been super sunny and even though that means cold, it is been wonderful! Yesterday I attended a work retreat at Anchorage's one and only golf course. This is what we saw out the windows though...:)

Yep, that's Mount McKinley!











And just for Bezzie...Flat Top Mountain. This was looking out the window we had lunch and some of the best Italian food I've had in a very long time!











It was a beautiful sight and so wonderful to be at something for work while viewing such fantastic sights.







As for my close up...My husband, Dave, keeps plants all over our house and I think that is what keeps us sane during the long winters here. So even though it is cold and snowy here for months at a time, I am surrounded by green-ness throughout the year. :) He ROCKS!

Up Close and Personal-Like

I present to you...."The Close-up"!

You would, I'm sure, now like to know what this very interesting textural close-up is of, correct? Even if you aren't wondering, I'm gonna show ya! Just for completeness' sake!

Ta Da:

The scratching post that my fur-babies have, well, scratched! A well-scratched, scratching post.

Hmm, is that gonna make the grammar police come after me?

It's *SEW* Old

Here's my unpolarized plug. This machine was given to me by my husband's grandmother. You can see by the design on the machine that it's an older model. It looks like something out of an Austin Powers movie.

I knew it was old, but I hadn't thought much about it until this project.

Old plug or not, it still works great! Hooray for quality craftsmanship!

No sign of spring here either, but

Here's a closeup. His name is Herbert. (I think.)

Spring, Schming

I opened my blinds this morning to discover a new blanket of snow falling. So pretty to watch but not very spring-y. No signs of spring in central Ohio.

Did someone say Spring?

well they didn't tell mother nature to come up here. No you are not reading the temp. wrong...we aren't even supposed to hit 32 until Friday...with the windchill it is -20 degrees today...ahhhh, spring I love spring!

Well don't be surprised if I post to this again in May...yup late April or May is when spring hits here....

Spring is Here.

Spring flowers blooming are a great sight after a cold winter. The nice thing is that our winter was not bad at all. The yellow daffodils are blooming now too. I'm hoping winter is over.

I' m looking foreword to seeing what everyone posts for the close-up topic.

New topic

I think it's time to submit a new topic. Otherwise put, I thought of one, so gosh, golly, I'm gonna suggest it! How about we all dust off the manuals to our cameras and take extreme close-ups of things we normally wouldn't? Naturally, we should also post a pic of what the item is.

The Frogs say "Spring is here"

They have been enjoying Springtime in my pond and this is the product of their "activity"

also in my garden

Daffodils -

Fosythia -

and Rosemary

all in bloom VERY early. Wouldn't expect to see most of these until mid to late March and they've been out for a couple of weeks already. All our news programmes are talking about climate change and global warming and Spring coming earlier.

We've had a very mild, very wet winter here in England and things never really stopped growing but I still love to see that Spring is on the way and I'll be able to get out in my garden planting things soon.

Pretty in pink

The sign of spring here in San Francisco is when all the trees start to bloom. Every street is lined with pink & white flowers right now.

Spring is coming????? Really??? Where?

This is my garden, the neighbor's shed in the background. Those bushes sticking out of the snow behind that birdbath come up to my chest and shoulders. That drift behind them? I think it would swallow me whole without any hesitation.

Spring is coming???

Ahhh.......no.

Signs of Spring.

A sign of spring you want,eh?

Well, around here this is a a sign of spring.

What's that you ask? A broader perspective:

Yup, freezing rain. That means the temperature is going up. Otherwise we get snow. Therefore, spring is coming. Soon, I hope.....

Spring? Really?

5 Wednesday 5

Forecast: a few flurries, but

no accumulation-HUH?!

5 Friday 5

That's more like it!

Iowa's Largest Frying Pan

We saw a faded, hand-painted sign on the side of the road for this, and who wouldn't stop to see a giant frying pan?

I asked the woman at the gas station if it was the U.S.'s largest frying pan. She said didn't know. She just knew it was Iowa's.

Enjoy!
-T.

Old Fashion Plug

My entry dates from circa 1985.

Yup, that's a hair crimper. From the days of "big hair"! I used to spend hours doing my hair with this thing.

Oldest Plug Here

This is the oldest plug in our house. Looking the house for an old plug was a challenge. I didn't realize it, but we don't have much plugged into the wall that isn't a TV or computer. But I did finally remember this old metronome. It is my husband's; he used it when he learned piano as a child. His mom sent it to us when his parents recently moved. The cool thing about it is the light on top that beats in tempo to what has been selected.