How things change - Lucky Snapping

We are on holiday spending most of our time close to home.  Yesterday we decided that, as the weather was dry, we would climb up a local hill to a view point called Joe Graham's Monument.  Joe Graham was a local huntsman and I always thought the monument was constructed because he had been killed during a hunt.  However, on doing a bit of research I discovered that this was far from the truth.  The inscription on the monument reads, "In Memory of Joe Graham for many years huntsman of the Dumfriesshire fox hounds who died in 1893 at the age of 80 and now he has gone far far away we shall never hear his voice in the morning".

Here is the monument as it looked yesterday.

Me at the monument yesterday

And here I am in 1980 which was the last time I made it up to the top!  

And here is Brian yesterday...

and in December 1978, on seeing this he said "how on earth did I get up there?"

And that is why I thought these photographs would be ideal for 'How things change!'

Another look at the view of the valley from the hill.

Here is another thing that has changed, Brian snapped this picture of me sharing the Instagram photo at the beginning of this post, to Facebook and Twitter. I was surprised to get a 3G signal up there! 

Linking up to Fiona's Fab First Fridays

February brings the rain...

February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lake again

This was a lovely sketch to work with although it took me a few goes to get it right, thank goodness it was digital and not paper I was working with!  Thank you for the lovely sketch Jennie. 

And a little taste of what the view from my kitchen window is likely to be next week and for the coming weeks.  Our calves arrived today and have settled into their shed including nosying out the window.

Snow Day!

Remember yesterday's photo looking up our road at the workmen digging up the road?

What a difference a day makes!!!

Here is my 'Lucky Snapping' View today

and some other views around the farm house

I like this one looking across the back garden from the window at the top of the stairs.  The photos are not too bad with my little compact camera.  I do miss my DSLR though, I am so used to it, but it has gone to have the 'door' where you put in the memory card, fixed.  I couldn't carry on with an elastic band around it forever!

If the snow stops we might even get out and make a snowman!

Lucky Snapping in 2013 - January 'View' Scrapped

I couldn't stay away from my digital kits for long!  I've scrapped my 'view' for January using the sketch by Jen on Lucky Snapping for 2013,

Kits: Secret Garden - Designs by Mozz; When Autumn Comes - Fanette Designs

Lucky Snapping in 2013 - January View

Well, here I am starting another photo blogging challenge this time there will be a variety of photographs and only occasional scrapping.  There will be different challenges organised by a variety of different creative people at Lucky Snapping in 2013  The first is described, by Jen, below:

                                 The View challenge

So this challenge is to decide on a view that you love and take a photo of it at some point this week, when the light is good and/or you have time. Over the year we will then have one photo a month of that view which will show the changes in the seasons. 

 

It was pouring with rain this morning when I got up, so I thought that as this is probably our most prevalent weather feature, I would see if I could take a view from one of the windows in our house as this might prove more sustainable!  The window I chose faces West and has two alternative views:

This one, which features our 'swamp' area full of willow trees, it floods regularly. The water has just gone down, but no doubt it will be filling up again soon.

And this one which features the farm sheds, the patio and there should be fields and hills in the backgound but today they are obscured by a thick mist!

In the end I decided to use the second view because there will be changes on the patio when the beech hedge turns green and the bulbs come out in spring.  Then in summer, the patio table and chairs will be put in place and the tubs will be filled  with bedding plants.  The fields and hills behind will change too as they go through the farming seasons and you might even catcg a glimpse of the calves.

There is a scrapping part to this challenge, so I may be back with a layout for the view later.