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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 13 Jun 2017, 23:12

Part one is still not quite finished with April, while part Two was planned to take a brief detour somewhere different, but
photobucket is playing silly buggers, so it's back to the early garden

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Contemplation
A selflessie

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Cogitation
A cob puts his thinking neck on

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Conflagration
Exeter bridge graffito gets the treatment

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White Rabbit
Remember what the dormouse said

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Full of Future

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Every Man and Woman
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 13 Jun 2017, 23:15

Part Two

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Fafner

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Frolic

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On the Nod

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Trinity

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Picotee pinks

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Meadowlands

Tomorrow: the end of April
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 14 Jun 2017, 23:20

As I said yesterday, I'm just going to get to the end of April today...

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Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue

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Face Front

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Camassia

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Candles

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Ramson Notes

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D Notice

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Big Bowl
I do give him fresh clean water, you know, but he likes duckweed cocktails

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In the Orchard
The community orchard, that is: don't have one in my garden

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Firebird
Not with a whimper

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 15 Jun 2017, 21:48

In part one we get back to the garden (man), while part two is out and about on Mayday

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Meadowlands (Slight Return)

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Over the Wall
Mexican fleabane

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Buddah with Triple Scoop Cone and Muffin

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Tall

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Spiny Purity
Rosa rugosa

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Yap Yap Yap
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 15 Jun 2017, 21:50

Part Two

Hooray, hooray, the first of May! Outdoor fucking begins today!

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New Month, Old Stinks

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Into the Blue

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The Locals
The trees in the middle of the pic are growing in Bridget's Piece, the wild land to the west of my garden

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Passing Strangers
Nary a sniff from either

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Homeward Bound
(the horse and rider, not me)

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Serenity, no Prayer

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 16 Jun 2017, 22:04

Part one today continues to ramble through the first days of May

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Blue Sky Sinking

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Border

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Waiting to Pounce
Any day now, swiftly and suddenly, this view will be overwhelmed with flowers

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Obstacle course

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Orchard

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Sylvan Seating

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 16 Jun 2017, 22:26

Part Two
Seem to have come to the end of the garden pics for now. One thing I did a lot in the year or so after Chip died was hitch up the Dawg and wander aimlessly about in Devon, pointing my Lumix at anything that caught my eye. So that..

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Advanced Geometry

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Curved

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Ploughed

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Widescreen Scenery

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Vanishing Point

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Autumnal

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 17 Jun 2017, 21:47

Part One recent Devon: Part Two 4-5 years ago.

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Den

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Bolt Hole
In the badger sett in the Long Plantation

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Hard Labour
Saxifrage

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Fork
Yes it is 'upside-down', but it looks better this way

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Clearing

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Tory Voters

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 17 Jun 2017, 21:59

Part Two

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Mis-Advertised
Ivy Cottage - but no ivy leaves to be seen

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Connected

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Moulded

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Man and Machine

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Dance
C'mon Do the Devon

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Combed

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 18 Jun 2017, 21:14

Part one takes in an adventure at the former Tree Root Falls, now Tree Root Canyon following some assisted erosion
by the Lad Himself, the Gray Ranger, and his faithful companion, Bozo.

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Redacted (Spam Filter)

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Redacted (Spam Filter)

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Exploding Parakeet

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Psychedelic Toad

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Comedown

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Root Manoeuvre

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 18 Jun 2017, 21:15

Part Two, in the meantime, wanders further afield (although not much) in pursuit of deepest Devon

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Open Road

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Golden Teardrops

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Ambush

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Cob - Autochthonic Walling

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The Big Red Barn

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Happy As...

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 19 Jun 2017, 21:16

In Part One, we're down by the River at the beginning of May, and we are Not Alone

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Swarm
Mayflies hatch in a patch of sunlight on the Creedy

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Emerald

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Textured

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Context

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 19 Jun 2017, 21:18

Part Two takes a sombre turn, in the autumn of 2012 and thereabouts

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A Sense of Ending

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Decisions, Decisions

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Attack of the Pod People

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The Ladies of the Vale

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Life Force

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Tints Up
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 20 Jun 2017, 21:48

Bit different today: both parts from the first decanate of May this year

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Edgy

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Homeward

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The Likely Lads

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The Sycamore Path

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Rear View

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Moloch

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 20 Jun 2017, 21:54

Part Two
Is in the garden, which is beginning to come into its own

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Geranium sylvaticum album

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The Great Uncurling

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Wound
A Heuchera stands out in the border

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Blue Star

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Rosa 'Gloire de Dijon'

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Rainbow Riot

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 21 Jun 2017, 22:15

A smaller batch today, all in one lump.
Warning – record collector content

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Apatow and West

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Summer Quorum I

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Summer Quorum II

The rest were taken at Exeter Record Fair, May 10-ish

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Quiet before the Storm, well Shower
Dealers check out each others' wares before the public is allowed in

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Keeners

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Noisy Neighbours
Of all the guys to set up next to me...

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The General Public

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OMG It's a Chick!
NB, the caption is humorous. In no way I am suggesting that wimmin should be referred to as they were baby birds.
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 22 Jun 2017, 22:49

Another shortie like yesterday. What can I tell you? I'm losing my grip.
But anyway, it's getting on for the middle of May, and as usual I'm bumbling around Devon with a Lumix, blatting away, with a fixed grin on
my eek, force 7 on the Rictus Scale...

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Long Barn at Thornhedges Cross

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Lying Cows and Flying Crow
of course the bird in the bottom left isn't actually a corvid (a pigeon, maybe?) but in caption world, wordplay often trumps truth

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Déja Vu
Most of the places I've lived, there's been a particular view or sight that I photographed many times over the years: here, there's been loads of them,
but few more often photographed than the ladder of shadows along this lane. I must have put up dozens already, but they are all subtly different
in detail. And I still haven't got a single definitive one yet

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Up and Over
This one, though, taken from the end of the visible road in the pic above, is pretty much definitive of this view in summer. Everything about it,
formally, pleases me, from the fall of the shadows to the curves and their placement - very reminiscent of the French curves my dad used in his
technical drawing - and taking in the colours, especially the greens. It all balances

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Temporary Island
Arrived now at Creedy Beach. The resemblance of this plant adrift in the river to a cartoon desert island with a single palm tree spoke to me

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Reach
The view from the Beach

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Lapping it Up
Scrap gets stuck in to the cool running stuff, so much better than bowl water

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Sploosh
Not my first attempt...

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I Said, 'NOT for Boys!'
Scrap could not be persuaded that I was chucking stones in the river for any other reason than that he he could retrieve them. Ahem
In the end, I had to hurl a stick in the other direction to set up the shot

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The Mill Fields
l-r Mill Cottages, Mill Farm, The Old Mill

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The State of the Nation

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 23 Jun 2017, 21:10

Back to the two-part format today, although both feature half a dozen slicers of Devon life in Mid May this year.
WARNING: High Dog Content

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Ponder

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Blizzard

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Surprise!

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Camouflage

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Vista

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Peak Buttercup

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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 23 Jun 2017, 21:11

Part the Second

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Woodland Trail

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Floral Path

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Sorrow

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Joy

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I Cover the Waterfront

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Ships that Piss in the Night
Himself studiously ignores a lurcher. Probably for the best.
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Re: An image (or two, or three, maybe a dozen. Or more) a day

Postby Modesty Forbids » 24 Jun 2017, 22:48

Part one carries on the mid-May frolics: Part two returns to the archives for a look at deepest Devon near the beginning of the decade

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Reticulation

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Pinkness

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But Is It Art?

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How About Now?

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Mme Alfred Carriere

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Family Affair

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