Another year over,

Todays photo of the day

A college made up with a photo from each month of the year.

(only one squirrel, bet you didn't expect that!)

You may have seen some before you may not have, I just picked at random from my many hundreds of photo's I now possess. I really do need to go through them all and decide which to keep.

I very rarely photograph people and usually only with their permission, that way nobody can object.

Well this is it the end of another year. We have had our ups and downs as usual, this year I think may have been more good than bad. So who knows maybe the next one might be even better.

All there is left to say is happy new year to all of you, have a great night, 

Until tomorrow...

Bad weather forecasts.

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Two ladies braving the weather.

At least the weather here has not been as bad as some places. The places where it has been flooded have had a really terrible time over christmas, I hope things improve for them over the new year, but if the weather forecast is anything to go by it doesn't look good!

Until tomorrow...

The sun shone on the garden

The sun shone for a while today. The garden burst into life, the usual suspects were all there. The Sparrows, Squirrels, Great Tits, Blue Tits, and Starlings, a few more Blackbirds.
Then I spotted a bird that I had not seen for a while, a Greenfinch, or in this case three.

They were fighting over the sunflower seeds in the ball feeder attached to the shed. Then I spotted more Greenfinches sitting in the fir tree sunbathing in the rays even if they were not very hot the birds were soaking up the vitamin D.

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A sunbathing Greenfinch.

Until tomorrow...

Did Santa miss some one?

Today we had a bus ride to Leeds. There were not as many people there as we expected. I had hoped to get a few street shots or portraits. However there just was not anything that caught my eye, until...

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a buen hambre no hay pan duro

(Beggars can't be chooser's)

Not everybody had a good christmas this year by the looks of it.

I took a picture in Portugal in 2011, this man reminded me of the beggar woman in that picture. I think it is just the way they are sitting, the fact that they are both dressed in black, but mostly the way they are both covering part of their faces, she with her hand, He with his collar of his coat. 

Until tomorrow...

Poor Pretty Boy

The wind has been causing the squirrels a little bit of a problem, they have had to hold on tight while walking along the fence. Pretty Boy almost got blown off.

As you can see from the expression on his face he was not pleased at all. It was only being able to use his tail like a sail that kept him on the fence.

Then to upset him altogether he went to the part of the fence where I usually put the nuts,

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One of the other squirrels had been there before him. Poor Pretty Boy.

He did manage to find a sweet chestnut that I put out for the squirrels over Christmas, so things were not too bad.

Until tomorrow...

A bird with brains

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The Great Spotted Woodpecker.

The female woodpecker is a regular visitor to the garden, the peanut butter in the hole on the crossbar is her favourite spot. Sometimes I put suet in the hole and she seems to like that almost as much. She is making the hole bigger so it takes more food to fill the hole, I think this is a clever ploy by the woodpecker to get more peanut butter. Clever bird eh!

Until tomorrow...

Happy Christmas

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Wakefield City Centre early on Christmas morning.

Christmas morning Wakefield was the quietest I had ever seen it. We drove through on our way to deliver presents. We had the usual places to call, Mum's, then on to Emma and her girlfriends. There we would see my grandchildren, they all looked happy opening their presents. I got big hugs from them all including My daughters girlfriend, if she wants to be family she has to have hugs the same as everybody else. 

I received phone calls and texts from my son and my other daughter who don't live in Wakefield, it was nice that they found time to call in their busy day.

Elvira came to stay with us for christmas. Tony did all the cooking, we had lamb, pork, turkey and duck. All the usual vegetables, home made roast potatoes and crackling. None of us wanted any pudding, so as usual the christmas pudding is still in the cupboard.

I received some very nice gifts I have already thanked the people that gave me them but I thank you all again.

I hope everybody enjoyed their christmas however they celebrated it. Happy christmas from me and Tony.

Until tomorrow...