I went back to the Eden Project for the third time this month on Tuesday, and surprising how many new things you can pick up in just a few days. I'm really after one flower which I think is almost ready to bloom, so will head off down there again today. Meanwhile, here is another colourful flower, this time a dahlia from the Outdoor Biome...

...the weather is still mild and there were butterflies flitting about outside...


In the archives from July 2005 I found this image, sepia and spot colour which I was quite pleased with...

Not a lot going on in July, most of the photos I uploaded were from earlier months - trying to catch up as usual!

I've been to the Eden Project twice in the past week, and why not when you can get lovely subjects like this...

Even in October still plenty of colour about even outside the biomes...

Loads more photos from the Eden Project in my Eden 2007 set on Flickr

Raiding the archives again and now up to June 2005, another busy month with the Royal Cornwall Show taking up a couple of days of my time. There's always so much to see there, and although it's basis is an agricultural show the Steam Fair is a great favourite with it's colourful rides...

...and then we have a lot of Cornish culture/heritage including Cornish Wrestling...

...and some cute animals of course...

I'm getting better - twice in one week! Okay, to start another of my recent photos which is quite popular, a macro of water droplets on a cobweb from a few days ago...

This was taken with my old Konica Minolta Dimage Z3 which seems to do a lot better than my newer Sony A100 dSLR - guess I need a better lens on that one.

Now another dip into the archives, and this time from May 2005. May is always a busy month, the weather is warming and nature is brightening up the scenery, so plenty to photograph and I spend 2 weeks in the Lake District so come back with maybe 2 or 3 thousand shots! But the month starts with May Day, and for that I like to go to Padstow for the 'Obby 'Oss celebrations...

The crowds following the two 'Oss through the town are amazing, a real crush but a great atmosphere with the music, singing and dancing...


At the end of the month, after my return from the Lake District, I was busy uploading some of the photos I had taken...

of the lakes and tarns (above: Goosey Foot Tarn in Grizedale Forest) and the villages...

(above: Grasmere)

I think I'm going to ignore how long it's been since I last posted here as it's getting rather embarrassing - I'll just make a mental note to do better! Before I go on to the archives I think I'll start each post with one of my latest photos and this is one that seems quite popular from the last week...

...an African Corn Lily (Ixia) from my October garden - they start flowering late summer and go on well into the Autumn.

Now back to the archives, and here I'm looking at April 2005, although this first one is from May 2004 and was taken on a train journey from my Lake District holiday...


...as usual I was catching up on the previous years photos on the run up to my holiday the next month in the Lake District National Park. The train journey was on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway which runs between Lakeside (S. end of Windermere) and Haverthwaite - the name is a bit of a giveaway :) It's an old steam railway and here is a shot taken at Lakeside station...