Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly

Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly, Lavender Green, when I am King Dilly Dilly, you shall be Queen.
This is my Image of the Week #22 #IOTW for Truly Madly Kids with the theme of Bokeh - the effect where the image is sharp and the background is blurred often with points of light.

I only have one pot of lavender, but it was looking particularly fine in the sunshine at the weekend when I captured this shot with the sun shining on the leaves of the beech hedge in the background.

Great Tit Nesting Box - Image of the Week #18

Telling a Story - is the prompt for the Image of the Week at Truly Madly Kids, here is what Penny says: "Sometimes a photograph has many things about it that make it precious. It could be the setting, it could be something in the frame, it could be the reaction on a face to something, or even something lurking in the background of a shot. These are the images that tell a story."

My story is all about a little family of Great Tits who chose to nest in the hollow framework of our tractor bale spike, as you can see it makes the perfect nest box!  We enjoyed watching the parent birds flying backwards and forwards carrying insects to feed their young.  The birds have now fledged so must have been quite large when I took these photographs.

There were better photographs than the one I have chosen for the Image of the Week, but this is the one I felt was most likely to 'tell the story'.  Here are few of the others below:

Landscape: Image of the week #17

When I saw the theme was Landscape for this week's Image of the Week at Truly Madly Kids, I knew right away which image I would use.  I was really pleased with how this turned out.

You can see the digital layout I made with the image in this post Ploughed and Harrowed in the Spring

Image of the Week #15 - Macro

Moss

Lichen

The theme for Image of the Week #IOTW at Truly Madly Kids this week is MACRO.  I love to take Macro shots, particularly of the plants and insects.  I was torn as to which of these recent images to share in the Linky but decided on the moss as the lichen is rather more difficult to distinguish.

And here are a couple of older macro photos that I particularly like.