Day 119 – Welcome to the …

 

Again, whilst out and about on our travels on the day I took this photograph, it was yet another of those things that we have driven by but never really looked at.  You can’t really miss it and I think it is the most delightful entrance to this type of thing that I have ever seen. 

So, welcome to the …

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

… Car Park!!   I’m amazed that the local council where this is have gone to the trouble to make the entrance to their Car Park so interesting.

Each post of this fence has a carving of a flower or insect and the words to a poem.

There is more of the poem on the left hand side, but I could not get the whole lot in for the photograph.

To show the posts of the fence better, here is part of the left hand side entrance.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

You can see the carvings of the flowers and on these posts, the names of the flowers they depict are carved above them.

I wasn’t able to note the words of the poem on this side of the fence very well, but the fence on the right hand side (top photograph) has the words:

“Fair dwellers of the fields White whisperers of the lane Sweet poets of a gentle spring I’m come to you again”.

I tried looking on the internet to see who the poet is and if they were connected to Cornwall but could not find anything like it.  If anyone reading this finds it, please leave a comment letting me know who the poet is. 

Day 112 – Made of Glass

Today, I decided to go with another of the assignments at The Daily Shoot for today’s photograph as we were just pottering about at home, so wasn’t too sure what I should take a photo of!

For today’s assignment the Daily Shoot says:  Make a photograph of something made of glass.

Well I suppose I could have taken a pic of a window pane, or a mirror but didn’t think they would look too interesting.  At the Daily Shoot website some of the examples for this assignment that people have uploaded show fences, a child’s face and various other things that really weren’t made of glass at all or even had any glass present in the photo. Perhaps I missed something but I couldn’t see the point of doing the assignment but not taking a photograph of what they suggested!!

Here’s my photograph of something made of glass.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

I have mentioned elsewhere in this Photo Journal that I like owls and have quite a collection of ornamental owls all over the house.  This is one of them.  It is made of glass and is very heavy.

I put it on a black background to hopefully show it off a little better than with everything else around it where it normally stands.  Hopefully he looks ok?

Day 105 – What Is It?

I wasn’t able to do my post for yesterday’s photo, so am doing it today instead!!

We were out and about yesterday and when we got to Truro, we had a drive along the river and, not having been so far along the river for a long time, came across this.  What is it?

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

Day 13: Passing The Time

Today we went to visit my 100 year old Aunt and in order to do so, we have to go on a small car ferry just to cross the River Fal.  I decided to take a pic today of what we see as we drive onto the ferry!!

Original photograph taken by me today 11th February 2011 - copyright 2011

 

This older gentleman always likes to sit there looking out across the River.  We see him every time we go on the ferry and he has been sitting there for about three or four years now to pass the time.

We often see people sitting next to him, talking to him and even having their photo taken with him.

Close-Up View

(same photograph, just a close-up of part of it)

Close-Up taken from original photograph taken by me today 11th February, 2011 - copyright 2011

 

The thing with this older gentleman is that he is a very life-like sculpture!!  Which is why people sit next to him and talk to him.  We think he is wonderful and although he sits there alone, his pal is standing on the ferry on a passenger viewpoint place, looking down the river!  He is also very lifelike!   They are wonderful but we like this older gentleman the best.