'Inner peace'

The hungry dahlia.

I don't think the geranium suspects a thing.

'Someone's in a mood'

I'm playing with new photo editing software.

Here's Poppy Buzz after a makeover.

Very overdone, but so much fun.

:)

Old Sheep

Poppy Buzz

The new power poles popping up around our area.

Ugly but fascinating.

Ghostly shapes loom in and out

of the early morning mist

a smothering eerie silence

A dilapidated truck leans

drunkenly

shakes off its hangover

Its throaty roar

arouses

the dawn chorus

First sign of the work ahead

It’s a man’s job

He grasps his metal chain

Each link

holds tight the hopes

of his chainsaw gang

Each felled trunk

sawn down in its prime

hoisted

one by one to safety

As evening draws near

a pile of rounds

aged worn

in fine ringed detail

wait forlornly as the fog rolls in

For another dawn

another day

Open wounds, bleeding sap.

~~~

Words by Amanda Edwards  Images by Niki

We won the November Words/Photo challenge.

Yay! 

:)

This is my favourite rose.

It is called 'Erotica' and has the most gorgeous smell.

It was raining softly when I took this image yesterday.

Then thunder and lightening boomed and cracked and it bucketed down.

Quite spectacular until the kitchen box window leaked so much that it required several towels to mop it up.

Now the roses are ruined, all droopy and sad.

But everything else is beautiful and refreshed. I love that feeling.

And I'm quite relieved that I'd mowed all the lawns before it happened.

My peony has lost his petals.

I made some new friends today.

Chatty bunch ... I couldn't get a word in edgeways.