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.
This week’s photo challenge theme is ‘purple’, I spied this autumn crocus on my Monday morning walk up the Rock. But how about some purple stalactites? You can find them in St Michael’s Cave…
I spotted this purple Bee in Manchester, you can read all about the Bees here.
I just love a hydrangea…
And a little purple plant I painted at watercolour class…
So that’s this week’s photo challenge entry done, now to take a look back at what everyone else has been up to over the summer:
As things got a bit hectic at times during the summer I didn’t manage to do a monthly round-up, so here’s a mega round-up of some of the entries to the weekly Postcard from Gibraltar Friday photo challenge (the photos are from Instagram and were taken by other people taking part in the Postcard from Gibraltar Friday photo challenge), thank you to everyone who’s taken part!
Week 27 : Golden
A golden sunrise (above) and 4th July fireworks (below)
Margaret at The Crafty Creek joined in with this one, she included a golden retriever and some stunning shots of golden roses in her entry.
Week 28 : Favourite
Animals are always popular!
…. but if you fancy an adorable tale about a precious favourite toy, hop on over to Wild Daffodil.
Margaret has a lovely selection of favourites in her entry over on The Crafty Creek.
Week 29 : Button
Aren’t these button pictures cute? Sandra at Wild Daffodil made some beautiful crocheted buttons…
Week 30 : Seaside
Seagulls always bring the seaside to mind…
As does a funfair!
Sandra at Wild Daffodil shared a fabulous pebbly picture and poem for the seaside theme this week!
Week 31 : Garden
Our beautiful Alameda Botanical Gardens featured this week as well as the garden at Kensington Palace.
A lovely walled garden in West Wales features in Sandra’s post on her Wild Daffodil blog.
Week 32 : Steps
From Kuala Lumpur to Upper Town in Gibraltar….
….to paddy fields in Bali with The Crafty Creek!
Week 33 : Reflective
Isn’t this quilt stunning?! And that sky…
Over on her Wild Daffodil blog, Sandra featured the most stunning baptismal font for her entry for ‘reflective’.
Some gorgeous reflections feature in Margaret’s Crafty Creek post.
Week 34 : Stitch
This marvelous cross-stitched wolf has his eye on you…
Margaret’s beautiful silk ribbon embroidery is just breathtaking in her Crafty Creek entry for stitch…
Sandra at Wild Daffodil has been creating things since she was a child, and judging by her Instagram account she is a prolific crocheter, here is her ‘stitch’ entry.
Week 35 : Viewpoint
Randall made me giggle with this one…
…read the comment.
And it was a scenic rather than moral viewpoint which Margaret at The Crafty Creek opted for for her entry.
Week 36 : Waterways
The Crafty Creek waterways entry features some beautiful waterways too…
Week 37 : Pride
Different definitions of ‘pride’ featured…
Week 38 : Autumn
Margaret at The Crafty Creek has some stunning autumn colours in her blog post!
Week 39 : Delicate
Sandra at Wild Daffodil featured a beautifully delicate dahlia in her post.
Margaret at Crafty Creek had some incredibly delicate creations…
Thank you all for taking part in the photo challenge this summer!
Next week’s theme is ‘nocturnal’.
I’ve gone for national pride for this week’s Friday photo challenge. On Monday, Gibraltar celebrated it’s National Day, and both the place and the people were decked out in the red and white of the Gibraltar flag.
Shop windows looked suitably festive.
And some people went to great lengths to look the part…
Central to the day (aside from eating and drinking with family & friends) is the political rally, in which local and UK politicians speak to the gathered crowd and via TV and radio to those at home.
We even had a pre recorded message from Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street. The place was awash with red and white.
There were ticker tape & streamer cannons and even smoke things going off!
We were even treated to a death defying aerobatics display…. I could hardly watch…
And the day was finished off with a fireworks display.
When I think of waterways, it’s the Norfolk Broads which spring to mind. This summer, as we have done many times before, we visited the Broads while visiting family members who live near by.
This time though, we got up close and personal with the waterways and explored them by canoe. It was probably the best day of the holiday for me, it was quiet, calm and so beautiful to be able to slow down and take in all the surroundings. There were literally hundreds of dragon flies flitting about close to the surface of the water.
We also visited this stretch of the Broads at Burgh Castle (below), which has history right back to the Roman occupation of the area…
We enjoyed a particularly pretty sunset there from a Broadside pub beer garden!
Next week’s photo challenge is ‘pride’.
The word reflective can mean several things; a reflected image, light or heat, a geometrical transformation resulting in a mirror image and deep thought. So here’s examples of all of those things….
The first photo was taken on the beach in Spain, and was just so beautiful. We’d gone on a (rare) peaceful evening stroll along the beach and watched as the sun disappeared over the horizon. It’s at times like this that I find myself pondering the most important things in life.
Another sunset photo, this time in Toulouse in France while we were there on holiday last year. The River Garonne was so still and calm, a perfect surface to reflect the bridges and the Ferris wheel.
And finally, the Rock reflected in a wing mirror while heading off on a shopping trip earlier this week.
Next week’s Friday photo challenge is ‘Stitch’.
I don’t wish to sound like a broken record, but for this photo challenge, there can only be one venue… the Med Steps!
For those of you who haven’t seen it already, here’s my most popular post of all time…. The Med Steps: a few facts & figures.
And I almost forgot, my second ever Stroll around Gibraltar post was about the many steps you can find on the Rock.
I was racking my brains as to what to use for my photo challenge this week, when rather fortuitously we visited the most glorious garden yesterday. Somerleyton Hall in Suffolk sits slap bang in the middle of where our relations live, so it was the perfect place for a final meet up before heading home today to Gibraltar.
A popular venue for weddings, the current residents (Lord & Lady Somerleyton) decided to redesign their sunken garden with a predominantly white colour scheme. It is stunning.
It proved very popular for a pair of ducks…
Normally at the start of a new month I give a monthly round up linking to other participants’ photo challenge entries, however, as I’m on holiday, I haven’t had the chance. It will follow at a later date, I promise :-).
Hmmm Seaside… looks like I planned this week’s Friday photo rather well… this week we’ve been to Aldeburgh’s pebble beach.
Sunny Southwold:
And sandy Sheringham beach…
The home of naughty seagulls who try to steal your chips! The postcard which came with my latest crochet project from Little Box of Crochet is very appropriate:
I’m rather partial to a pretty button. I put together the above picture from a selection of buttons at home. But that looked a bit boring, so here’s a selection of other types of buttons I have seen on my travels today….
Today, we caught a plane (with lots of buttons on it) to England.
And here’s a late edit…
… a rather lovely old fashioned button for a door bell.
Next week’s challenge is ‘seaside’.
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.
