Saturday, September 30, 2017

Photo Scavenger Hunt - September

Where did September go?  Already it's the last day of the month and the days seem to have gone by so quickly.  We've had a short break in Wales, taken a few walks and visited a garden or two and a  couple of buildings over the Heritage Open Days weekend but mostly we've been at home pottering in the garden and making jam and chutney from the left overs of the produce we have grown.

I think all the photos I've used were taken in September so here are my selection for this month's Scavenger hunt organised by I Live, I Love, I Craft, I am Me blog - here

Shut - a gate in RSPB Combes Valley Nature Reserve, near Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands.  Taken on a recent Sunday morning walk there.

Copper - Kettle on a shelf in the Worker's Cottage at Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Dore, Sheffield which we visited on 20th September.



Wrist- The wrist from the statue of local author Arnold Bennett outside the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent which we visited on Thursday last week.

Quarter - a quarter of a Cox's apple, very crisp and tasty it was too.


It begins with a C - Caterpillar, a fox moth caterpillar found on a much used path leading to a shop and cafe at the top of Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen in Wales.  We managed to get it to crawl onto a leaflet we'd just picked up in the shop and we moved it to safety otherwise it would have been trampled by huge biker boots as at least twenty bikes had just arrived in the car park nearby.

Foam - I stood for ages watching the sea hit the rocks at the end of Llanbedrog beach on the Llyn Peninsula where we had walked as far as we could. I was determined to touch the rocks before we started to go back towards the village. 

Scarf - my newest scarf which I've very attached to at the moment.  I was sitting opposite Paul when he took this photo during our trip  on the Welsh Highland railway from Porthmadog to Caernarvon earlier this month.




 Line - the end of the line at Caernarvon on the Welsh Highland Railway. We had an hour in the town before the train returned to Porthmadog through the mist covered mountains, rain soaked landscape and flooded roads and fields.



Nostalgia - when I saw the rag rugs made by the Hamlet Haberdashers Textile Group in the worker's cottage at the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Museum I was transported back to my grandmother's house.  When I was a child I used to spend a few days there sometimes and I remember she had several rag rugs including one in front of the hearth of a big black range which she kept polished and where she used to leave bread to rise covered with a clean white tea towel. She made the rugs herself using lots of scraps of material from old frocks, shirts and pinafores with the dark edges made from an old gabardine macintosh.  She used to make the rugs sitting at the huge, scrubbed white kitchen table.



My Own Choice - Gorgeous Dahlias in Mrs Bateman's Dahlia Walk at Biddulph Grange Gardens which is our nearest National Trust Property.  

Click on the link below to find more bloggers who are taking part this month.

http://livelovecraftme.blogspot.co.uk/
 

28 comments:

  1. Seeing that photo of the stone wall and the rain just painted pictures in my head of riding the train through the green farmland and rolling hills of England. It sounds like heaven :) We live in a desert area, so green fields, rock walls, mist, rain and bumper-shoots sound amazing. I guess it is true the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence . . . especially if your side is a desert, LOL.
    Thanks for the sweet visit.
    Connie :)

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    1. Glad you enjoyed the photos, Connie and thanks for visiting. Our countryside must look so different to where you live:)

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  2. I've been to Abbeydale and Porthmadog but many years ago. It was nice to be reminded of the good days we had there. So many lovely photos but my favourite is the Wrist one. It made me smile.

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    1. Thank you, we are lucky to be close to so many lovely places, glad to have brought back some memories for you:)

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  3. Love rag rugs too. Always remind me of my mum making them when I was young and myself and my sister helping! Thank goodness you rescued the fox catterpillar. Love the copper kettle and the wrist photo is a great interpretation. :)

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    1. Thanks, shazza, I hope the catterpillar did survive at least we gave it a chance:)

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  4. A great collection! I love the dahlias and glad you were able to save the caterpillar :)

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    1. Thanks, Louise the dahlias were stunning. Hope the caterpillar did survive:)

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  5. Wonderful photos and stories - clever one for wrist :) The dahlias are beautiful - I've never been to Biddulph Grange, thank you for joining in :)

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    1. Thank you and also thank you for organising the hunt. I'm really enjoying taking part:)

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  6. My grandmother use to make rag rugs too, so I enjoyed your photos of that.

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    1. Thanks, I loved all the rag rugs there:)

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  7. I loved seeing the rag rug, I have every intention of making one myself. I have such wonderful memories of sitting with my Gran making one for the stone floor kitchen she had.

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    1. I'd love to learn how to make one but I think I would struggle with my fingers:)

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  8. Lovely photos, love the Dahlias, one of my favourite flowers

    Julie xxxxxxx

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    1. Thanks, Julie, the dahlias were all wonderful and very colourful:)

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  9. A lovely selection of images - the dahlia in the last photo is just beautiful. Rag rugs always remind me of my paternal grandmother - she used to make them too. Glad you were able to save the caterpillar! Hope you have a lovely October.

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    1. Thanks, you too Caroline, its such a lovely time of year even though I regret leaving summer behind. Hope the caterpilar made it. It seems from all the comments a lot of us remember our grandmothers' rag rugs:)

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  10. What great photos and just right for the hunt! 😊

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    1. Thanks, I always think I will never get all the photos in time but usually manage it in the end:)

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  11. Oh yes we used to make rag rugs too! They were great fun and so colourful. Agree that Sept has gone far too quickly, but on the positive side dogs are allowed on the beaches again and I had a great walk with my dog this morning.

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    1. Oh, yes it's good you can walk your dog again, they love the beach and the sea so much don't they?:)

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  12. Loved your photos & liked your take on wrist and caterpillar for "C". What an exciting September you had with lots of days out. Take care.

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    1. Thanks Susan, it was good to get out and about in September before the colder weather sets in:)

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  13. Lovely pictures from your September outings. Rag rugs bring back memories of making them with 'crimpoline'off cuts. That way they did not fray and dried quickly. A great improvement! Love your wrist picture. Clever find.

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    1. Thank you. Oh, gosh yes, I remember when crimplene first came into the shops in the 60s, my Mum had a crimplene frock or two:)

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  14. Great set of photos Rosie, my favourite are the Dahlia's and the rug, I watched my nana making rugs from wool. A few years back I made a rag one out of old clothes which is next to my bed.
    Amanda xx

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    1. Thanks, Amanda. How lovely to have made your own rug. I'd love to have a go at making one:)

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