In fact it’s the fiesta de la inmaculada concepción – celebrating the immaculate conception of Mary, mother of Jesus.
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Category: UK
windy days
It’s been terribly blustery this weekend – the type of weather that tends to blow all ideas out of my mind and prevents me from focusing. It does, however, provide a good excuse to post a picture I took last spring of a wind flower – a wood anemone.
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looking ahead
When I went online to find about about dates for rubbish collections, I didn’t expect the local Council to have gone into the fortune-telling game.
It seems, though, that my future is all sewn up.
What’s worse, these upcoming ‘rubbish Fridays’ include not only Christmas Day, but the first day of 2016, so the New Year will get off to a bad start.
I think it’s time for the first Bah, humbug! of the season.
all mod comms
Yesterday I said I didn’t really know what to post, so made do with some old photos.
I’m not doing much better for inspiration today, but even if I still don’t have much idea about what to post, I do have a picture of a post box.
It’s a typical old pillar box – I think it’s Victorian – and the modern red brick houses in the background don’t exactly set it off very well.
Fortunately I didn’t need to go far to find another one with a better backdrop, and with a traditional red phone box alongside as well:
bonfire night
Blue, green and gold
chrysanthemums
explode against mute grey
Through ragged cloud
the moon peers down
at multi-coloured stars
I have no suitable photos, so here are some spiky dahlia blooms doing their best to impersonate a firework display:
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