Notes of Life

I’m sure you’re fed up of my garden photos, but the flowers are pretty! Later in the week, I promise to have some photos on a completely different subject, but for now…

“Serenity”

“Candy Flowers (Geranium)”

“Poppy”

This afternoon Sarah invited me down to her place for a drink and a chat.

I’ve known Sarah all my life, from being tiny tots, through our teens and now we’re nearly at the end of our twenties. Even our families go way back… Sarah’s Great Great Grandmother was my Great Granddad’s 2nd wife - I guess you could say she was my Great Step-Grandmother! That would make Sarah a step-cousin somewhere along the line!

Anyway, we got talking about family history and Sarah produced a folder full of photos. She looked at one, looked at its back and passed it to me.

I didn’t need to see the back of the photo, I knew the face. There, a young man dressed in a soldier’s uniform looked out from the photo with a slight smile on his face. His face tells me he’d not yet endured WW1. He’d not yet trudged through the mud in Europe, been wounded & captured or seen the hell that they call a battlefield. His face tells me it was yet to come.

I’d never seen a photo of Granddad Charlie looking young. He always seemed to look old in photos taken after the war. Even Dad says Granddad Charlie always looked old. It may be just his facial expression, but to me Granddad looks older than his years in the photo below, taken after WW1. He would have been in his mid twenties.

Sarah had one or two other photos I would like to borrow, so I’ll ask her about them when I return Granddad’s photo.

Photo 1 courtesy of Sarah. Photo 2 is from my collection.

My camera (a Canon 350D + 60mm macro lens) has been working overtime this month. I love photographing in the garden and hedgerows.

“Lewisia cotyledon”

Here’s the latest selection of flowers around the garden.

P.S. - Make sure you visit Shades of the Departed to see my guest post!

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been invited to be a guest author at Shades of the Departed!

I have been asked to write a post about “Documenting Today For Tomorrow’s History” along with how I document my life. My post will be up at Shades tomorrow (so don’t forget to check it out!), but for now why not take a look at what Shades has to offer.

Shades of the Departed

More flower photos!

I noticed these bluebells at the top of the garden and couldn’t resist photographing them.

I also noticed one or two other plants in the garden that had also flowered last year.