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Rinda's Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt: The Final Cut

And here it is - my final collection of all twenty-one photos for Rinda's amazing and most enjoyable Summertime Photography Hunt for 2013. Thank-you so very much, Rinda, for hosting this and for providing me and many others with a great focus for our summer (or winter) months: it has been such fun! And you will find lots more over here ...

As I will be away for a little family break for a few days with uncertain Internet access, my bobbing-in to see you may be sporadic, but I will be catching up as soon as I can :). Hasta la vista, mis queridos amigos e amigas ¡y nos veremos pronto!

Rinda's Scavenger Hunt (E)

And it's a wrap! I am so pleased to be squeezing in here under the wire with Rinda's wonderful Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt. So, what have we got left?

12 The Cloud
I gave up on this one. Just not going to happen. I have a crick in my neck and a few scrapes on the nearside headlamp of the car to prove that I really tried. So I'm going for the substitute item, the sundial - which I think may be the tallest, most inaccessible and redundant sundial in the world ...


Just to prove to you that the pale curved spike on the top actually is a sundial, I raised my arms above my head (unable to see a thing), and clicked the shutter. This is what I got. (I think that's a fly sitting on the end).

17 A Candle
These are scented, in tins, on my windowledge ...


18 Local bar, coffee house or tea shop
It would have to be here, really: Dad's favourite for lunch or afternoon tea. Those of you from far away, is this English enough for you? :)


7 A sign that is intentionally or unintentionally funny
Having smiled and giggled at lots of your amusing submissions for this one, I am feeling that we seem to be a little short on humour up here. So mine is a bit of a hybrid. The caption I saw in a place where I couldn't take a photo, but I jotted it down quick and have paired it with a photo from my copy of Women's Weekly, the knitting pages, 1938. I thought she had a kinda Mae West attitude in that pose ...


10 A bench that is outside
Many types of outdoor benches have ended up in my computer folders this summer but I did like this handcarved wooden one for its comfort factor ...


This has been enormous fun, Rinda, so thank-you very much indeed! And thank-you all for calling in today :). If you have a minute or two, please do pop over to the Linky and browse some of the beautifully recorded moments by all those who are contributing to this month's Simply A Moment. See you soon?

Simply A Moment (September 13)

Hello and welcome! It's time for another Simply A Moment - a chance to pause, connect with our outer and inner worlds and to share in some way, whether through a photo and a few words, a longer piece of journalling, a drawing ... limited only by your imagination! The Linky is below, and will be open for a few weeks, so there is no rush. Here is mine, for September, hot off the press ...

If you would also like to join in, then please do link up below, and we will come and visit - it is always wonderful to have a glimpse into so many moments across the world :)

 

 

Photo 1, Words 20 ...

Thank-you very much indeed to Abi for this lovely meme: a story in one photo and twenty words ...
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...........................................................................................................................................................................................1 1 now-I-can-see-you: stamps more visible in a folder  2 gleaning ideas for dispalying text from the Simple Things magazine  3 doing an online course (if I can fit it in)  4 I succumbed  5 Doodling my own paper for my Day-2-Day scrapbook  6  giving drawing a go - again  7  delivery of a gelli plate: Carla Sonheim's doing a class  8 all the way from the USA, and wonderful  9 still on the hunt for the totally perfect archival pen

And if you are new to Simply A Moment, it's a chance to pause mid-month, to notice and reflect - just for sixty seconds. You will find lots of information here and here with a downloadable pdf, if you would like a little something to help you along. And you don't need to write a lot: as Abi has shown us, less can be as good as more :). It would be lovely to see you! Until the 16th ...

Rinda's Scavenger Hunt (D)

Hello and glad to see you! Back from the planned and unplanned journeying to close and wider family (some of it for happy reasons and some of it for sad ones), I hope to be able to catch up with you all soon :). But as the closing date for Rinda's Wonderful Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt is fast approaching, it is time I got together my next clutch of photos. First up ...

11 An animal in a zoo, aquarium, nature preserve etc.
Snapped in the summer when the Littlies were with us ...

13 A fence
I loved the simple shape of this one, curving up and over a small bridge and round the corner ...

19 A fisherman/woman
Totally unexpected, this one. Himself and I, on the way to his Family Reunion, set off for an early morning walk and, glimpsing the river between a gap in the row of elegant houses backing on to it, picked our way down a little muddy track to find ...

16 A Windmill
This, I thought, would be A Challenge. We'd have to take a thirty-mile detour on our way home from the family gathering to pass one. Then suddenly, out on a cycle ride along the Baltic Coast last week, I spotted ...

But having taken our detour the previous week, I already had this one :).

21 You with an artistic or craft tool
And finally, from those seemingly now far-off summer days when thoughts didn't turn to thermal vests and sitting outside was a pleasure (it is 8C/46F this morning), here I am with guillotine in hand ...


Mmm, that cloud photo is still elusive. Our skies have been either blue and cloudless or grey and heavy - whatever happened to white and fluffy? Thank-you so much for popping in and looking forward to visiting and enjoying what you have all been up to :). If I could just find those woolly socks ...