Check under your car for chickens
I am just so behind with processing photos. These were actually taken way back in the spring and editing them was making me feel a little sad and nostalgic for the abundance of flowers and colours that are fast disappearing.
They were taken at Beech Court Gardens in Challock, which is down the road a ways from where I live. It’s a place that’s made me realise how important garden design is. It looks wonderfully colourful in late spring/early summer but after that there isn’t a great deal in flower. And even when it’s at its best, it’s a real hotch-potch of colours that are seemingly just thrown together instead of being planned in any way. The colours themselves are superb, but it’s very hard to get a decent photograph and it’s brought home to me how a good garden designer has already done much of the work for us when it comes to getting good shots. I always get really excited when I go there because it looks so spectacular, and then I’m mildly disappointed when I get home and see my shots.
One thing I do like, though, is this sign:
October 7, 2011 @ 8:32 pm
Wow….these are beautiful Gilly. I loved that first bench shot and thought it would be my fave until I sawn the images you framed with natural branches. I felt my breath catch. They are stunning.
No chickens under my car.
Hope you have a happy weekend Gilly. If it makes you feel any better, I am hopelessly behind on my images too. I processed something from January 6th the other day. That’s just wrong!!
October 8, 2011 @ 8:35 am
Also rather behind with processing! These look great. I like the ‘chickens’ and ‘loo’ pictures very much, and also love those where the violet rhodedendron shows through – the bench and the gate image in particular. Really the whole set is lovely. Worth waiting for!
October 21, 2011 @ 12:47 pm
Thanks to you both, and hope you catch up with your own processing soon.