This weeks prompt chosen by Astrid is 'The Colour Purple'. Fortunately I do still have a few pictures that will fit that heading so here goes.
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Thursday, 15 April 2021
Astrid's Photo Scavenger Hunt 15/04/2021
This weeks prompt chosen by Astrid is 'The Colour Purple'. Fortunately I do still have a few pictures that will fit that heading so here goes.
Thursday, 8 April 2021
Astrid's Photo Scavenger Hunt -9 March 2021
The word selected by Astrid this week is Farm. As we live opposite a small holding and then a couple of farms on the other side of the road from us and they are part of our daily view out of our window, I thought it may be appropriate to use photographs taken at different times of the year of 'our farms'.
Spring
Summer
Autumn

Winter
Friday, 2 April 2021
Astrid Dragon's Photo Hunt - 02.04.2021
Welcome to Astrid's first Photo Hunt. She has selected the word Chocolate for our first prompt; a very appropriate word. I'm sure that where ever you are, we all associate chocolate Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns with this time of the year.
We have always given our grandsons either a chocolate egg or sometimes a chocolate rabbit and this year is no exception. I have been itching to buy them ever since they came into the shops. B kept telling me that they are grown up now and I don't need to get them an Easter egg but eventually gave in. We are expecting to see them this weekend with their girl friends as we are allowed to see people so long as we stick to the rule of 6 and are outside in the garden. My picture shows three chocolate bunnies, two blue and one pink and one box of milk free eggs for one GF who has to avoid dairy products. I had a job to take the photograph, the foil wrapping was so shiny.
Thursday, 25 March 2021
Kate's (Last) Picture Scavenger Hunt .26/13/2021
Sadly this is to be Kate's final Picture Scavenger Hunt due to her very busy life these days. It has been fun though I did find Fridays came around very quickly!! Good job Threads through my Life aka Lovely Lady kept me on my toes.
My selection of pictures seem to be more black/white than light/dark, or maybe there is not too big a difference. Anyway, here goes...........
LIGHT/DARK
On one visit to our son and daughter-in-law in Scotland they took us to see The Kelpies near Falkirk, the largest equine sculpture in the world. They are 30 metres high and are a monument to Scotland's horse powered industrial heritage. For those who do not know what a Kelpie is (I didn't) they are a shape-changing aquatic spirit of Scottish legend. They are said to haunt rivers and streams, usually in the shape of a horse.
I took some lovely pictures of them, in spite of the rain that day, but on getting back to their home our son took my phone and using some app which he says is on my phone (but I have never found it again) turned all my photographs into these strange black and white pictures. They show both dark and light of the same subject and well as a picture at the end just so you can see what they should look like. They are amazing, makes one feel very small next to them as they are huge.
The star hanging in the window with a winter sunset behind it. It was not dark enough yet for the lights to show.
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Kate's One Word Scavenger Hunt 19/03/2021
For the third week this month Kate has selected Sunrise/Sunset. I have so many pictures particularly of sunsets taken from our lounge window that I have had a job to choose. We can't see sunrises from our flat windows, just too far around the corner but I have quite a few taken from different watering holes on the Africam.com site. I take pictures off my computer screen with my smart phone. So here are my selection for this week.
Sunrise over Tau Game Reserve, South Africa
The next set of photographs were taken out of our lounge window a few years ago. It shows the sun gradually disappearing behind the horizon.
Sunset in over Weets Hill, Lancashire, August 2013
One more week of Kate's One Word Scavenger Hunt before she hands over the reins to someone else due to her ever increasingly busy lifestyle. Thanks again Kate for all the hours of pleasure you have given us over many years. 🧡xx
It will officially be Spring by then as it is the Spring Equinox on Saturday 20th March. So it will be all change. See you then. xxx
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Kate's One Word Scavenger Hunt 12/03/2021
This week's topic for our picture hunt is Look up/Look down. This really had me thinking for a while till I realised the way I should go. So here is my interpretation of Kate's words.
I searched through old photographs taken whilst driving round the Panorama Route, Mpumulunga, South Africa when we lived in nearby Hazyview. To give a brief explanation much of that part of South Africa is either Highveld or Lowveld and usually there is an easy drive down between the two. But here the cooler Highveld towers above the much hotter and drier Lowveld below where we lived. The Panorama Route took in many lovely sites like Bourke's Luck Potholes, Pilgrim's Rest and God's Window. That is where the first picture was taken.
Here we are looking east over vast forests owned and maintained by the Forestry Commission and beyond that across the town of the aptly named Hazyview and towards the Kruger National Park and eventually towards Mozambique. I like to think this photographs shows both looking up at the clouds whose shadows make dark blotches on the forests below where your eye is drawn to look down. We loved being up there as it was a way to escape the extreme heat of the Lowveld below.
This next picture I took of Rosie's Pan where I think it shows both looking up and down. The clouds above are reflected in the water below.
Here a male Kudu is standing above the water with his reflection down below.
I have more pictures 'looking up' than looking down so here is one last one of storm clouds building up over Naledi Dam as the sun was setting.
That's it for this week. Thanks Kate for keeping us going with your weekly picture hunt. Now off to see how everyone else has interpreted the prompt for this week.