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rized 1 comment drat my camera october 5 2007 by kirkbyj05 my thanks to donna for this lovely tag yesterday was my work day instead of tuesday driving along the country road to the farm i was watching out for the pheasants of last week the ones that got away my camera was ready sitting on the passenger seat batteries charged to the full so i drove along in hope i wasn t disappointed as there on a raised verge beside the wall on my left was one lonely cock pheasant he froze as my car approached and didn t seem to know what to do photo shoot i cried out loud to nobody but myself lol i took one whilst he was stood like a statue but it was from inside the car and through the windscreen the flash wiped it out i thought next time and set off for work this silly old pheasant hadn t got a brain instead of flying up and over the wall it ran down off the banking in front of my car hither and thither lol at slightly over 0 miles per hour i snailed slowly along the road so as not to run the silly road runner over i stopped it stopped i stopped it stopped and i thought its a stand off make the most of it so i got a hold of the camera again this time the photo took but it was still taken through the windscreen it wasn t too bad i mused then i set off in the hope he would get out the way before i squashed him he took flight and landed on the wall parallel with the door on my right side i was so close had the window been opened i could have grabbed him without hardly stretching out my arm he stood there looking at me all wide eyed so again i thought wind the window down and grab the camera but when i turned to take a picture the batteries dropped out of my camera two days before we left to go on holiday to the highlands and islands of scotland i dropped it and have since had it taped with gaffer tape when the camera is switched on the surge of power pushes the blessed batteries out the camera the pheasant was still there on the wall looking straight into the car at me and i missed it bleep bleep and i m not practising to be a road runner here either what an opportunity missed oh well next time lol today i m off out looking for fungii i got lots of photos of various fungii last year after the rains of autumn so i hope to see a nice variety today so for today be happy i know this week has been a sad one in jland at the loss of dear penny who we all prayed would ride through her latest chemo treatment for leukemia it was not to be i don t think she would want us to be sad forever i for one want to smile and remember that brave lady who still walked down the hospital corridor to keep in touch with us all even though she was so poorly how much love did she shine out to us all by doing that no i will remember her love and thoughfullness and smile have a good day and stay well and happy my quote of the day below the happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss a smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling samuel taylor coleridge this is breast cancer awareness month don t forget to check god bless posted in uncategorized 1 comment my judith heartsong s artsy entry competition entry october 1 2007 by kirkbyj05 hello again i have decided to enter this months judith heartsong s friendly artsy entry competition again i so enjoyed visiting all the other entries last month i wrote this last year and have since tweaked it so that it falls in to line with the competition requirements we had to create an entry using some or all of the words on judith s list i have used some of the words she provided and have dotted them about my essay for you to find highlighted in blue i hope you enjoy the walk as you look for the words on loan from judith s list it is one i take regularly all year round with nature s various changes to distract me en route please note i have copywright on all of my entries so please do not copy or save them to your computer thank you an autumn walk by jeanie kirkby 2006 10 07 i see the warmth of summer escaping from the land like a ground oozing wraith in the middle distance the lake wears an atmospheric cloud inversion autumn has stepped into the landscape with a sweep of her cooling hands she paints the leaves with copper and gold tints flowers shudder in her presence maraca shaking their seed pods at her feet berries and nuts ripen too tossing their sun roasted bodies to the ground in their haste to withdraw from the coming winter these tumbling s which i find myself crunching underfoot are as though a jar of pebble like winter toffees has been spilled and scattered around for all those sleepy hollow creatures to devour through the lean dark days to come squirrels scamper up their larch ladders like circus clowns on a tightrope harvesting cones to add them to their cache of nuts for those rare bleak short days when wakening hungrily from their hibernating torpor the swallows have left as a squadron navigating the european landfalls to their african hunting ground with its beckoning sun and plentiful flies on the wing their summer holiday retreats are still stuck to the eaves of roofs and barns abandoned for another year skeins of greylag geese begin to arrive from the arctic regions to our warmer climes airborne in the high stratus thermals for so long their legs have become strangers to them as they land on the marshes they tumble forward with an undignified nosedive along the margins of the lake the wind enters this scene fitfully now and then it tests the fallen leaves for their flap ability skirmishing with them along the paths and under the trees small whirlwinds suck the leaves from the forest floor spiralling them lightly aloft then just as suddenly released of this new mode of travel they skitter like a covey of pheasants at the sound of the hunters gun change tack again then glide like goose feathers to the ground a window opens up down through my woodland vantage point showing more of the lake in the distance the mist has begun to shift and rise revealing more in its translucency as the day moves on i can see that the lake hasn t escaped from the testing parries of the wind small white horses can be seen rearing southwards away from the prevailing autumn wind whooping down off the high northern fells which are receding to a vanishing point somewhere beyond grasmere a startling crack of laboured feather like flapping draws my eyes to a pheasant whose feathers camouflaged him so well on the forest floor looking up through the trees a watery sun flickers leaf and branch shadows down through the opaque shafts of light to the golden crunchy sloughing carpet beneath here and there amongst the damp detritus of past storms are rotting limbs colonised by mosses which compete with one another so that they almost create their own isomorphism s all living in their own chosen microcosm sharing the nutrients from the fallen skeletons of previous year s storms these limbs are wrapped about as if for protection by looping barbed wire like tendrils of brambles whilst sentry like nettles ward off my reaching fruit picking fingers the trees are not alone in their transformed autumnal attire poking out from under each genus of woodland tree is fungi native only to that species and the nutrients which it releases rust tan red green blues blacks red spotted with white fungi are all vying for attention as i pass by umbrella shapes phallic fluted and frilled there are even some who turn their rims up to show their gill like undersides as though stood on the same warm air grid as marilyn munro in her famous floating dress scene they slide slowly into the light like snails through previous years of wet mulched leaves revealing all in their moment of glory whilst offering their spores to the damp air in the surrounding suburban gardens which i pass on my outward and return journey nasturtiums are one of the last splashes of vivid colour to offer their faces and leaves to the autumnal shivers their long saucer shaped leaf stalks trembling in the wind like the many plates balanced on top of the tall canes of performing jugglers back home and in the warmth i look out my window to a spangled shimmer of sun bright water which breaks the mirrored reflections of the plants and trees protecting our pond from the worst of the elements water lily s slip slithery skeletal and translucent rotting leaves lower into the dark water joining the sluggish fish lurking closer to what s left of the summer s warmth in the depths the rain arrives washing the laurel and rhododendron leaves to a glossy wet slicked greenness the uncut grass of the lawn has had a last spurt of growth foxing the gardener who has put his lawn mower away until next spring its harvest festival time and there is much to rejoice in nature have a lovely day jeanie xx posted in walking leave a comment autumn is sneaking in september 22 2007 by kirkbyj05 since i have another journal over on aol i find i am kept busy over there from time to time as i have more readers so forgive me if i copy and paste and then talk of something a bit out of date its easier for me to copy and paste rather than try to re write everything all over again so here are mutterings below for you to read and pass the time i hope you enjoy good morning we all seem to be crying out for summer and its heat again now that autumn is here gas fires are turning on extra layers are being worn to bed and in my case the central heating is on already it s amazing how quickly we all get used to the heat of summer and miss it when it disappears the cold fair nips at my outer layers of fat these days and tightens it up dreadfully lol it can be quite painful when fat solidifies on a human bean hahahaha i have been getting my nose into a few good books this last week and enjoyed the transportation to another world tha s been taking up a bit of my computer time too and i also had a little play with the planter that samantha gave me i turned it into a miniature rock garden see photo all last week and the week before bryan got stuck into digging and overhauling ours and our neighbours garden he is making a big difference out there unfortunately last friday morning he showed me a bite which he had been scratching all night and when i saw it i thought we can t leave that over the weekend so we popped off to the doctors after getting and emergency appointment where he was given some antibiotics and steroid cream i have seen one of these bites before and they can eat into an ulcer if you leave them too long samantha our daughter had one a couple of years ago she left it over the weekend and it had got a grip on her flesh and ate a deep hole before she knew it in both cases we have no idea what caused it bryan remembers hitting an ants nest and whacking his trouser legs to stop them biting so we presume it was one of those with an infectious mouth yuck i don t go in the garden these days as i inevitably get ticks brought in no doubt by the deer bryan has yet to get them and he is always in the woodland and garden not that i wish them on him but i just don t understand why they jump on me maybe they like blood that has had chemo and radiotherapy maybe i glow in the sunlight who knows but they jump and shout geronimo and aim for jeanie all the time lol as i mentioned in my previous entry i have been having problems with signal and connections on my laptop i gave up making entries most of last week and just made little sorties in and out of folks journals instead my computer kept disconnecting me in the middle of my writing i have been trying to update my mainframe computer since i have hardly used it this summer its cold down in the cellar where it sits without the heating on now that its back on elsewhere i will be back down there and get on with my writing soon i can write my stories much better down there as i have no distraction or awareness of time passing by up here in the kitchen i get distracted by the garden and the changing lights and weather on it i took a little tootle around the lanes behind our houses the other day the results are in the album above at one part on the walk i stopped to take a picture unaware that there was a chap behind me until he let out an oops i never heard a sound i know i should wear my hearing aid more but the noises that it gives you back again arrive like a crescendo of drumrolls made by a mad orchestral tympanist who has forgotten that there are gentle little symbols too i won t be around much tomorrow as i am going to a little job that i said i would take up again for my friend cally her daughter has just had a new baby two weeks ago and i said i would go and move the dust around for her this is an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere with peace and quiet and views that go clear across to the pennine chain it is so pastoral and a place that we would all aspire to owning the views are breathtaking meanwhile bryan s obviously missing not being out in the garden he keeps interrupting me with questions about which mail shots that have been lying around need chucking out i ll get no peace until i go see to him lol take care and stay well quote of the day the best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch swing with never saying a word and then walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you ve ever had bryan and i do that a lot lol bye take care posted in walking 1 comment a short review of summer and some moan and groans september 6 2007 by kirkbyj05 my thanks to donna for this beautiful tag good morning i have had such a lovely time browsing everyone s journals recently you are all a talented bunch i may not have had time to leave a reply in each of them as i have many alerts like the rest of you no doubt sorry about that congratulations to donna for winning the artsy entry that was one supremely well written piece of work very well done i ve been taking a review of summer off and on over the weekend i ve looked back on many happy moments and smiled one stands out and i want to share it with you i wrote of hollie my grandaughter coming to visit and i posted some of her activity pictures whilst she stayed with us for a whole week it was a day when we were setting off early as we had planned lots of things to do we all mucked in and made the picnic sandwiches etc before we set off we checked all the regular security things we all do lights off no dripping taps doors locked grandma checking she has her purse and keys lastly we fed the fish on turning to come back in hollie said grandad better turn the tap off over the pond or it will overflow while we are out bless her she was unaware that the filters recycle the water via a pump and the water level is a constant evaporation excepted one day last week i asked bryan if he thought post knott was too difficult for me to walk up as its been a few years since i attacked that v...