30.9.11

Little Gems



Inside my kaleidoscope



Our one round yellow courgette from 2007



Common Blue butterfly, rather faded and tatty


Pool/snooker chalks at the pub



Watchful rooster



Skulls and sweetpeas



Ladybird nestling in dead squash leaf



Medieval fragment, head of Christ (probably), safely niched away at the top of a window at Sandford St Martins Church, Oxfordshire.

10 comments:

Frances said...

Gretel, these gems really glow, and I like each photograph. Amongst my favorites would be the chalk at the pub and the skulls with sweetpeas.

Have a grand weekend!

Elizabeth said...

Yes, gems indeed.
You look with such close attention to the tiny things.

BumbleVee said...

do you make prints of your amazing photographs Gretel? I particularly love the blue butterfly and the pool cue chalks is something else....

Charlotte said...

Lovely, the collection of skulls if fantastic. I have a fox's one in my classroom (sterilised in our dishwasher much to the amusement of colleagues) he keeps losing teeth sadly. I would love some more, where do you get yours?

d. moll, l.ac. said...

well titled ! these are little gems to be sure. The pool chalks are really something else, oh and the rooster and the....you get the idea.

Pamela Terry and Edward said...

Lovely.
The yarn I'm knitting with at the moment is almost the colour of that butterfly. And I love your still life of skulls and sweet peas. Come to think of it... that'd be a great name for a band, don't you think.

Frances Tyrrell said...

Beautiful theme - the kaleidescope, then the delicate skulls and phlox(look like phlox to me), then window with the mosaic-like halo - 'tis a poem!

Anonymous said...

What a lovely collection of bits and bobs!! I love the butterfly - I have never seen one of those.

menopausalmusing said...

Am sat here wondering how you took the picture of the inside of the kaleidoscope. Loved the pool chalks too. I would love to pick up and look at all your skulls. It looks a great collection.

Claire said...

Great mix of photos Gretel. Love the Common Blue butterfly the colour is gorgeous, albeit faded and tatty and the pool cue chalks.......obviously I love blue!

Handsome rooster and I looove Sweetpeas, mine are about to flower. Interesting skulls, I wonder what animals they belong to and where you found them?

I'ts a beautiful, sunny morning here, hope you are still enjoying some warm weather.....

Claire :}