Nigel 
December 11th,2009I need to relax today because I’m exhausted. Not a problem. It’s beautiful out,and the sun has been shining on my face much of the morning.
While idly preparing some more horizontal photo crops for the randomised header of this blog I came across quite I few which seem really good uncropped. Since I’m too tired to write anything serious,and a blog about depression needs brightening up,here are the first few. Typically they’re uncropped,but the contrast may have been tweaked slightly. Like any of them?
We spotted this part of someone’s front garden in Beddgelert,North Wales,last July. If this is your garden,thank you very much for the pleasure your display gave us.
A very small part of the large lake in Roundhay Park near where we live.
A stream on the edge of Porthmadog,North Wales. Jenny and I were running the patrol leaders’expedition for my old school Scouts. The equivalent expedition in 1983 involved twenty miles of walking in order to traverse the Grey Corries,and a night in a bothy. Kids these days can’t hack it any more (and to be honest neither can I) so we’ve been go-karting,and now I’m taking photos while they kick a ball around on a nearby field.
We took a day off camp to explore Snowdonia. Well,we weren’t being paid. This is a crag above Tan-y-Grisiau on the edge of the Moelwyns. Used to be a big slate-mining area,and now the easier mines are reopening. This is a crag I climbed with one of our students some fifteen years ago. The gleaming slab was good fun,but finishing off towards the right not so great. Glad I climbed it,but it’s an awful long slog up the slag heap of waste slate for a two pitch route. Never mind,we were young.
You may have noticed a slice from this one as a random header. The wall is just outside Joe Brown’s outdoor and mountaineering shop in Capel Curig,North Wales. Same day as previous photo. Sadly the local cafe no longer uses genuine clotted cream for its cream teas,but there you go.
Okay,so you don’t shop with me. Just couldn’t resist putting this at the end.
If you’re reading this within twenty four hours of me posting it,have a great weekend.
