Thistles - Image of the Week #IOTW

This is my Image of the Week #IOTW the one I like best.  Thistles are terrible invasive weeds but the bees and butterflies love them and I always try to capture a few in flower before cutting them down in the hope that a few fewer seeds will mean they don't take over our hedgerows and fields and leave room for some of the other lovely wild flowers and plants.

The theme for #IOTW  at Truly Madly Kids this week was 'Flash' I tried to take some different flash shots, but wasn't really happy any, here are a few of them.  Obviously needing to do more work on this.

Bird nest in hedge, hay rake, lavender, blacksmiths drill

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.

365+1 - Water

Gingerscraps: Scrap your Life, Thalaris: I'm like a Bird

My friend TraceyR gave me this lovely Swarovski pendant  for my birthday.  I think it looks like a drop of water, don't you?

365+1 New

Kit: Gingerscraps Scrap your Life

365+1 Celebrate

Kit:  Gingerscraps, Scrap Your Life -

I've started Suzie's 365+1 Challenge to take a photograph every day,  I also thought I would try to digi-scrap them, although whether I am able to keep that up throughout the year is questionable.  I'll certainly do my best, there may be a bit of catching up every now and then.  Anyway Day 1 is Celebrate, so here is a toast to being creative in 2012, cheers!