Ray's Photos

[Rayge]

Today's theme is pretty things...


Peak Production


Glads All Over
Yeah, I went there


Jewels on a Slope


Backlight


Purple


Nice Pads, Man


Passing It On

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Part Two


Waves


Curves


Wheels


Wings


Stopper


Pink Shards


Blue Fire

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Today's batch begins with a work detail, then wanders off into the countryside


Tea Break


Floral Wellies


Cake With Gump


Life Coach


Sgt Scrap on Crumb Patrol


Linda and Charlie

We were clearing the stream on the Millennium Green, btw

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Part Two


You can See Our House From Here! Part 93
One of the magics about the new camera is that it enables me to zoom in on my notoriously-difficult-to-spot-until-you're-almost-on-it pad, and those are definitely my (blocked up) chimneys, corrugated asbestos roof and TV aerial in the middle of this one. Woo hoo!


The Gentry


Hoi Polloi


Topping Out


Carpet
Erigeron and Crocosmia flow down a garden bank somewhere in Big Cred. Speaking of which...


A Bit of Dutch
The view from my chiropodist's waiting room. The Vape shop across the road failed dismally, and is now closed.

Tomorrow, then.

[Rayge]

Right then, it's back into my comfort zone, sometime in Mid-August, somewhere in Rayge-world


Uh-Oh
Here comes trouble


New Seasonal Look


Pantiles
The Rose & Crown from the back


Sillvan Scene


Patches


Jolly-Up

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Part Two


Uh-Oh II
There's two of them!


Glossy


Shiny


Chicory


Pillar


Filigreen

Tomorrow – Rayge on Tour in his past in Bristol and Bath!

[Rayge]

We had Things to Do in Bristol, and decided to make an overnight stay of it, at least in part to revisit old haunts of mine from the 20 years I lived round there.


Sic Transit Gloria Oldlanii
Once was a very funky house with a lovely front garden where Chip and I lived for 15 years.
Here you go...


So hey-ho, on to Bath

Gone Fishing


Pulteney Bridge


Temptation


Hillside

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Part Two


Whisk Me Away


Carpe Canem


Chimneys


Niche Markets


Entertainment


Romans and Other Foreigners

Tomorrow, pull the plug on Bath and venture forth in Brizzle

[Thang-y]

Entertainment

"Entertainment", you call it?

It started well but then the bastad played 'over the rainbow'. When he then started playing 'tears in heaven' I was ready to smack the fucker. Grrr.

[Rayge]

"Entertainment", you call it?

It started well but then the bastad played 'over the rainbow'. When he then started playing 'tears in heaven' I was ready to smack the fucker. Grrr.

It was a title, not a review

[Rayge]

Today, lots of things you don't normally see here, such as cities (Bath and Bristol) and people...


Ranks


Interested


Crystal Palace


Pumping It


Fronting It
Bath Abbey
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Part Two
is off to Brizzle, where we settle into a hotel and I march off with himself for a walk, taking in the local park, boneyard and riverbank


Wary


Taking Notes


Sweet Suffering
This is Arnos Vale cemetery, Bristol's Victorian necropolis


Xianity


Meet Me at the Cemetery Gates


Bristol Fashion


Steps

Tomorrow - Down to the River, and The Following Day

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Today, in Part one at least, still walking through Brizzle towards the Avon on an August evening


Vertigo


No Fucking Entry, OK?
They mean it, Man


Not Banksy


Heart of Gold


Reaching


Postmodernism Eats Itself

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Part Two


Bart Simpson World HQ


Web and Filigree


Self-Captioning


Footbridge


Burst


Morning

Tomorrow, Clevedon, Kenn, and the way Home

[Rayge]

Today, Clevedon, Kenn and the way home.
Chip and I lived in the village of Kenn, about a mile south west of Clevedon, on the Bristol Channel, from 2005 to 2010. I hadn't been back since March of that year, nearly seven and a half years. In Clevedon, it was raining and there was nowhere to park on the front, but I took a few for old time's sake from Poet's Walk, where we used to walk our dog, Kez...


Prepared


The Pill
Clevedon – well, that end of the Bristol Channel in general – boasts the second-greatest tidal reach in the world, with more than 10m between some high and low tides, which means that the boats in the harbour (which is what The Pill is) are often beached - high and dry in fact – at low tide.


Familiar
This red and white boat (all hail the telephoto!) often featured in the shots I took here a decade ago


Two Holms
The two islands are Steep Holm and Flat Holm. Take a bead between them and you don't make landfall until the American mainland

Then on to Kenn, for a quick look at the old house, and the reverse of the Oldland Common experience, as I found the garden altered, but still basically the one that we – well, mostly me in this case – had made, just grown more luxuriant

Pond, Wall, Hedge
In 2005, I dug the pond and planted some whips of native trees about six feet away to make a hedge. A couple of years later, I used stones from a rubble pile left from the conversion of farm buildings into the house in which we were living to make a low, wide, dry-stone wall, in part for seating by the pond, but also incorporating various runnels and entranceways that could be colonized by amphibians and other wildlife. And the hedge is now a thick woodland, and all developed better than I hoped


John's Vine
John and Grace were our next-door neighbours. That's one single plant filling that greenhouse, pumping out an astonishing amount of grapes.

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Part Two

And then, popping in on old friends. And a new one

Future Games
It's astonishing to me that this little scrap probably has a better than even money actuarial chance of living into the 22nd century


Disgruntled
Looks like Baby JW has put someone's nose out of joint


Best-Dressed

There's a point on the drive home, on the road from Tiverton via Bickleigh, where you crest a hill and a huge chunk of mid-Devon is laid out before you, rolling towards distant Dartmoor, and a parking place is considerately provided for those such as I, who wish to stop and marvel

Wide-Angle Blue Yonder


Recession


Lower Burrow Combe Farm

Tomorrow, back in Sandford for the duration

[Rayge]

Today's batch is a return to the humdrum and doze of Deep Devon, as we amble down the lower slopes of summer: the view is still splendid, but not quite so wide as before. Although the occasional detail intrigues


Church Street


Allotment Sheds


Dragons and Susans


Rainclouds Over Kirton
Taken from the top of the slope on the north side of the village


North-East Over Furlongs


Bling

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Part Two


Ripe
This was the only fruit on my Brown Turkey fig that I planted last spring. Ms Thang and I split it between us. It was pretty damn good.


Harpo the Hunchback


Conceptual Scarecrow: Local Corvids Unfazed


Rolled Gold
I may have used this pun at around this time last year, as it's so obvious, and such a beguiling subject (to my eye at any rate).
It's going to have to do for the last two, as well, as I'm all out of inspired captions.





Tomorrow, fruit, flowers animals and landscapes. That'll make a change, eh, viewers?

[Thang-y]

Ooooh, I like this one. Think I'd like to get this printed from the original then framed.

[Rayge]

I'm sure we can come to some arrangement