Jan Gray’s Project 365-2022

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29th April - Dandelion Clock
Another of the images of the Dandelion, this time inverting the image to give this effect.

 

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30th April - Clouds

A bright, calm day spring day today providing a lovely reflective image in the water.

 

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1st May - Canal Scene
A typical canal scene with the locks and lock keeper’s cottages.

 

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2nd May - Enjoying the Walk
I was going to take a picture of the canal and the lovely weeping willow tree but the dogs had other ideas!

 

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3rd May - Boughton on the Water
A quintessential English picture-book village. Looking lovely with the spring blossom on the trees.

 

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4th May - Village walk
The walk leading out of Boughton weaves along the river around this beautiful late Tudor house with its’ beautiful old garden and a strange looking garden shelter seen on the left.

 

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5th May - The Old Mill, Lower Slaughter
Another wonderful Cotswold building with working watermill.

 

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3rd May - Boughton on the Water
A quintessential English picture-book village. Looking lovely with the spring blossom on the trees.
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It’s Bourton not boughton lol. Had to mention it sorry. This is the section that held the duck race. Great times amusing the tourists by catching bullhead fish under the rocks in here.
hope you visited the model village to the right of this photo and had an ale in the old new inn next door. Two bridges up would be the motor museum and a little way back behind you was the trout farm. Always nice to see my old home.

 

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6th May - The Stumpery
Last year, I developed part of the front garden into a stumpery with tree stumps and the planting of spring bulbs and would flowers. The first year and there is a definite change and not only is it looking good, the amount of wildlife with the number of insects inhabiting it, we have at least 3 hedgehogs visiting daily as well.

 

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It’s Bourton not boughton lol. Had to mention it sorry. This is the section that held the duck race. Great times amusing the tourists by catching bullhead fish under the rocks in here.
hope you visited the model village to the right of this photo and had an ale in the old new inn next door. Two bridges up would be the motor museum and a little way back behind you was the trout farm. Always nice to see my old home.

Sorry about the name problem - My fault, not checking before posting! Thanks for the information on the village. Sadly, we just walked through the village as part of our walk. if we visit again, I’ll visit the model village.

 

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7th May - Field of Dandelions
At the bottom of our lane, there is a field which is left by the farmer for hay gathering which is a regular for the village dog walkers at the moment, it is covered in dandelion and looks lovely.

 

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8th May - Farm Machinery
This is part of an old farm thresher machine converted to black and white with added grain.

 

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7th May - Field of Dandelions
At the bottom of our lane, there is a field which is left by the farmer for hay gathering which is a regular for the village dog walkers at the moment, it is covered in dandelion and looks lovely.
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Spectacular.

 

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8th May - May Blossom
The pretty flowers now covering the bushes and trees around. A favourite for the bees and the orange tip butterflies.
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9th May - Sitting it Out
Spotted in the middle of the reed bed, a Swan sitting on the nest.

 

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10th May - Disused Railway Bridge
Did one of our favourite walks today, between 2 villages around farmland and canal and under this bridge which nature has taken over covering it in hawthorn and brambles.

 

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11th May - Wild Flower Margin
Something that can help with our environment has been the introduction of field margins and this one we found today really lifted my spirits. As well as being full of bees and other pollinators.

 

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It’s Bourton not boughton lol. Had to mention it sorry. This is the section that held the duck race. Great times amusing the tourists by catching bullhead fish under the rocks in here.
hope you visited the model village to the right of this photo and had an ale in the old new inn next door. Two bridges up would be the motor museum and a little way back behind you was the trout farm. Always nice to see my old home.

Yes! I’ve done that duck race. Love the Cotswolds.

 

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7th May - Field of Dandelions
At the bottom of our lane, there is a field which is left by the farmer for hay gathering which is a regular for the village dog walkers at the moment, it is covered in dandelion and looks lovely.
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Selected for IOTM

 

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Great images, Jan. Don’t you just love Britain at this time of the year with all the flowers.

 

[jangray]

Great images, Jan. Don’t you just love Britain at this time of the year with all the flowers.

Yes, you’re right. I love this time of the year as everything begins to grow and looks fresh and colourful after the dismal months in Winter.

 

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12th May - Dandelion Close-up Conversion
Took this with the macro lens on the iPhone. Converted to black and white to highlight the different textures.

 

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13th May - The 3 Amigos
I often take the dogs for a walk with my friend who owns Edie the Airedale. They now all walk together but I never seem to get all 3 in the same photo. On this walk, Edie went and sat up on the pile of woodchips and Bertie and Izzy both joined her.

 

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14th May - Dandelion Fireworks
Decided to do another black and white conversion of a dandelion head concentrating on the feathers, which look like fireworks.

 

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15th May - Red Campion
I decided to play around with this image to highlight the beautiful colour of the flower by recolouring once converted to black and white.