Sacred Heart Church needs little additional decoration, it’s beautiful to start with, but it’s currently sporting some Christmas wreathes.
We are a bit slow off the mark in our house and haven’t yet put up our decorations… that’s job for this weekend I think. But Gibraltar has all its decorations up and looking splendid!
Next week is the penultimate week for this photo challenge, and the theme will be ‘star’.
Our rather famous ‘wild’ inhabitants here in Gibraltar just had to feature in this week’s photo challenge! What are they talking about I wonder?
My favourite place here has to be the Med Steps, and they are covered with ‘wild’ flowers in Spring.
It’s not just the Rock which has ‘wild’ inhabitants, we have beautiful dolphins in our waters too…
Next week’s Postcard from Gibraltar Friday Photo Challenge is ‘sunset’.
Hmm tunnels, you would think the person who came up with this challenge lives in a place with tunnels! Well if you believe Wikipedia, Gibraltar has 34 miles (55 km) of tunnels, which is quite remarkable considering how small the Rock is (2.6 square miles/ 6.7 square km).
We have tunnels you can visit as a tourist (top) and ones you back walk or drive through to get about (Keightley Way).
There are tunnels you really shouldn’t drive a bus through! And some just for pedestrians (Med Steps).
Next week’s Friday photo challenge is ‘Remembrance’.
It may be a very small one, but Gibraltar is a city.
It was granted city status in the late 1960s and even has two cathedrals, one Catholic and the other one Anglican.
It’s also our home.
Next week’s Friday photo challenge is ‘Tunnel’.
This week’s photo challenge theme is ‘nocturnal’ and here’s one of our little nighttime visitors. These geckos crawl around on our frosted glass windows on summer nights waiting to pounce on any moths which may pass by. It’s like watching a nature documentary unfolding on our kitchen and bathroom windows some nights, and rather gruesome at times.
We do have bats too, but they wouldn’t oblige and stay still long enough for me to photograph them!
Next week’s theme is: curve.
Favourite… that’s a bit of a loose prompt. Favourite what? Well this photo seems to be a bit of a favourite over on Instagram – it’s had more likes than any other on my account. It dates back to April last year.
My favourite photo taken in Gibraltar has to be this one, taken after walking up through the mist and low cloud on the Med Steps.
My favourite pass time has to be crochet…
And my favourite finished blanket so far has to be this rainbow granny square one…
Next week’s photo challenge is button.
I’ve chosen the ‘golden hour’ as the sun sets for my golden photo challenge entry this week. I love how the colour just fills our home for those glorious few moments as it drops down behind the hills across the Bay from us.
However, at the moment, this is my favourite type of golden…
…just the ticket after a long hot day!
Next week’s Friday Photo Challenge will be ‘Favourite’.
June round-up
Sunshine
We kicked off June with sunshine and Crafty creek had some stunning shots in her Sunshine post, I just love the sunrise photo over the sea. So beautiful! You can see it here . Sunshine and trees featured this week on Instagram @mrsscjohnson4 shared a beautiful sunset photo with a line of trees silhouetted in the foreground, while @randallpeck captured the sun’s rays through the branches of a tree.
Line (week 23)
Sandra at Wild Daffodil shared her post about a beautiful lino print she’d made for this challenge. Meanwhile on Instagram, Randall Peck shared the most beautiful photograph of a solitary bird sitting on a power line against an orange sky. Thinking outside the box, Sandra @capanosandra opted for the plimsoll line on a large tanker moored in Gibraltar’s port.
Tiny (week 24)
The most adorable tiny floral arrangement in a little tea cup was Sandra at Wild Daffodil’s entry for Tiny. Tammy (@tsdailytreasures) captured a little bug on a blade of grass, and insects also featured in the pictures by @randallpeck and @capanosandra too. Randall caught the moment as one bird flew to another to share an insect for dinner and Sandra opted for the bane of my life in the summer months… ants!
Midsummer (week 25)
‘Phonhenge’ was the title of @randallpeck’s summer solstice Instagram photograph which made me chuckle. He managed to catch a picture of the sun just peeping out around the side of his mobile phone. Jan @isisjem opted for a beautiful shot of a path across a green field which was taken on her summer solstice countryside walk. For @hookstitchsew, marigolds mean midsummer to her.
Tall (week 26)
Over on Instagram @mrsscjohnson4 shared a photo of the control tower at Mallory Park race track for her ‘tall’ image, Sandra (@capanosandra) chose to share a photo of The Four Columns (Les Quatre Columnes in Catalan) which she photographed on her recent trip to Barcelona. While Susan @bluejake235 chose Blackpool Tower as the subject of her ‘tall’ photo, @hookstitchsew featured her very tall pea plants as the stars of her tall entry. Perhaps the tallest thing of all to feature was Alison (@alisoninandalucia)’s picture of the Burj Khalifa.
Thank you to everyone who has joined in with the Postcard from Gibraltar Friday Photo Challenge so far this year, it’s amazing to think that we are already more than halfway through already! Here’s to lots more lovely photographs over the next 6 months!
The final rays of sunshine on the longest day of the year, last night…
Next week’s photo challenge is ‘Tall’.
It was a bank holiday on Monday this week here in Gibraltar, and we took a trip up in the cable car to the top of the Rock. While we were up there we spied on the bank holiday beach goers down below us in Sandy Bay. They looked so tiny!
Next week’s photo challenge is: Midsummer (eek, that must mean we are halfway through the year already!)
A week and a half ago, I published my latest ‘postcard from‘ and it featured the Carcassonne part of our trip to France last summer. We spent the rest of our holiday in Toulouse, a really beautiful green city in southern France. My favourite part has to be the floral footbridges linking the parks together for pedestrians in the city.
I had never seen anything like this before, and I loved them. There should definitely be more of these in the world!
This week’s Friday photo challenge theme is Floral. Next week, it’s challenge.
