It's time to share the photos I took for the first Scavenger Photo Hunt of 2018 organised by Kate at 'I live, I love, I craft, I am me' blog. There are six word prompts this time - Yellow, It starts with an 'O', light, found, colourful and my own choice.
Yellow - Toy Giraffes on wheels at the Peak Wildlife Park, near Leek in Staffordshire.
It starts with an 'O' - Owl - a sculpture in Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Light - on snow covered fields on the Staffordshire/Derbyshire border not far from the town of Buxton.
Found - we have taken out a month's access to Find My Past as we wanted to look at the 1939 Register. I found my Mum and Dad and my Dad's parents but couldn't find my Mum's parents and sister and Dad's sister. I eventually found them all but they were very hard to find because whoever had transcribed the original had spelt surnames wrongly. My grandparents and Mum's younger sister were found at the address I remember visiting as a small child in the 1950s I knew that they should be at that address so waded through pages until I found them. My Dad's sister was found lodging with a family on Granby Road in Leicester where her employment was listed as a nurse.
Colourful - a parrot figure in the houseplant section at Bridgemere Garden World, Cheshire.
My Own Choice - a collage of alternative photos for the above categories.
Found - delicate little pink cyclamen flowers hiding in the undergrowth, the first yellow daffodils of the season, light on silver birch trees, colourful flowers at the garden centre and an old, leafless oak tree.
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Found - delicate little pink cyclamen flowers hiding in the undergrowth, the first yellow daffodils of the season, light on silver birch trees, colourful flowers at the garden centre and an old, leafless oak tree.
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Lovely photos - you clever thing - using your second choice images for the final picture! Love the image of your 'light' dusting of snow :) thank you for joining in x
ReplyDeleteThank you! I realised that I had taken two of each category so thought I may as well use them:)
DeleteWhat a lovely selection. I avoided owls for O, although I'm a perfect nutcase with them & have so enjoyed seing some being posted. Interesting search for your past ancestors & I keep saying I must do some more research as well. Love your alternatives too. Take care.
ReplyDeleteI dithered between Oak Tree and Owl and finally used the owl. I've been doing family history for about 30 years on and off but hadn't accessed the 1939 records before now as you couldn't see it without a subscription:)
DeleteI loved the Owl sculpture, stunning.
ReplyDeleteIt is a great sculpture isn't it?:)
DeleteA lovely selection of images Rosie - I love the Owl Sculpture and the snowy scene :) Interesting to read about your family history searches - I did a course with Futurelearn about a year ago on tracing your family tree and one of the many things mentioned was the fact that mistakes were made during transcribing!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Both our family surnames seem to attract miss-spellings so you have to interpret things sometimes. I have a family name way back on my father's side which is Hodgetts (they were the ones who lived in a court yard house in Birmingham much like those in the NT's Back to Backs)I eventually found them in 1841 transcribed as Maddgets, when I looked at the original it looked like Hodgetts to my eye but then of course the name was familiar to me:)
DeleteSmashing. I love your snowy photo. Glad you tracked your family down, the next census will be available in 3 years time, they are so useful. 😊
ReplyDeleteThank you! I saw an advert somehwere that the government is looking for an agency to recruit people to transcribe the 1921 census so work on it will begin soon. It will be interesting to see it:)
DeleteA lovely selection Rosie. I must have a look at the 1939 records, I seem to be stuck at the moment. I’m sure you know how it is. Have a lovely weekend. B x
ReplyDeleteThank you! Yes, I know that feeling as I'm stuck with most lines in the mid 18th century at the moment, don't think I'll get much further back:)
Deletesuch a lovely post Rosie,I love the snowy pic, down here in the Dorset we do not get much snow and I do miss it.Coming from the north and having to wade through lots of it to get to work etc I do not miss that but just for a short while it looks so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I remember those days of being snowed into the village we lived in and not knowing if the school bus and later the bus to work would get through. It does look pretty if you don't have to go anywhere:)
DeleteHunting down the ancestors is always a slog, but so worth it.
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy it and it's great to find something new:)
DeleteGreat selection Rosie, my favourite is the snowy scene, love the way the field boundaries are marching over the crest of that slope, makes me want to walk up there and peep over the other side :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! I took the photo through the car window as we didn't dare stop, the fields, trees and stone walls looked magical covered in such white snow:)
DeleteLove the giraffes, owl and snowy scene. We were driving around in it recently and I noticed how the snow had accented the landscape in such a way I've never noticed before; so there are benefits to snow! If I had to select one photo it would be the giraffes.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Even the dullest of landscapes can look lovely in snow and it does seem to highlight certain features like walls and fences:)
DeleteThat's a brilliant idea to use your second choices as the last photo! Beautiful photo for light :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Louise, I thought you might recognise where I took the photo:)
DeleteSnow does certainly make for a very special kind of light. Lovely selection of photos.
ReplyDeleteThank you Christina, the snow looked magical on our journey:)
DeleteFantastic images and how clever to show us your alternative pics as well.
ReplyDeleteDiana
Thank you Diana, glad you liked both sets of photos:)
DeleteWhat a beautiful snowscape, luckily we've avoided snow so far this year. I can't deny it is pretty though.
ReplyDeleteThank you Fiona, the snow was very pretty and didn't seem very threatening in the clear sunshine, but I bet it got more tricky later in the day:)
DeleteLight - a beautiful photo Rosie! x
ReplyDeleteThank you, Simone:)
DeleteLove those toy giraffes. I have also been tracing my family tree too
ReplyDeleteJulie xxxxx
The giraffes are cute aren't they? Finding ancestors is always interesting, even the difficult bits:)
DeleteFun photos...
ReplyDeleteThat "Find My Past" sounds so interesting. Wonderful that you persevered and found your relatives.
Thank you! It is an interesting site which I've wanted to look at for quite a while. I'm glad I finally got to look at it:)
DeleteGreat post, Rosie. I would love to trace our family history. I’m off to have a look at the site that you mentioned. Have a lovely weekend, Marie x
ReplyDeleteYour comment came through as I was replying to the one above:) I think some things you can access on Find my Past but others you have to take out a subscription for. Hope you too have a lovely weekend:)
DeleteLovely pictures. The colourful parrot and flowers are so cheerful this rather grey day. I too love the way snow changes the landscape. 😊
ReplyDeleteThank you! Glad you enjoyed the colourful parrot and flowers, they were very cheering at the garden centre and lots of people were stopping to look:)
DeleteThe giraffes just caught my eye as I knew I wanted 'yellow'. There have been some lovely 'yellow' photos in this months hunt haven't there? Always so cheering at this time of year:)
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