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My Travelling 2014

Sitting here and looking back at my travels in 2014, I wonder how I also managed to fit in working and moving house. I only visited one new country this […]

Happy New Year!

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” -Alfred Lord Tennyson “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day […]

Industrious Venice

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.  – Andrew Carnegie I had a great travelling 2014.  One of my favourite memories is the photo workshop I attended […]

Z is for… Zénobe Gramme

Zénobe Théophile Gramme (1826-1901), the father of the dynamo, was a Belgian engineer who lived and died in France. At the age of 30 he began work in a Paris electrical […]

An Alternative Face of Venice

I didn’t see much graffitti in Venice and what there was tended to be confined to specific areas, such as around the football stadium and the port.  This example made me […]

A Place to Hide

Clever combination of graffiti and the local surroundings reminds us of the sad plight of many in our world. Linked to Monday Murals.

Rainy Nights and Yellow Steps

The Eiffel Tower takes on a different persona in the rain.  It has a beauty of its own. Linked to Alphabet Project and PhotoSunday Copyright Debbie Smyth, 20 December 2014 .

Serene Snow

No signs of a white Christmas here in the south of England, so this will probably be the only snow I’ve seen in the whole of 2014, and what a […]

Something Tropical

This is the last of my decorated shutters series  for now! This is Barcelona decoration in progress.   I’m not sure exactly what the location will be, but it’s something tropical, perhaps […]