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Friday 8 May 2015

Two walks in Coombe Wood

Walk 1. THE DELIBERATE WALK.

Yesterday I enjoyed a walk in Coombe Wood with a friend. It's lovely to be able to use my repaired camera again - although unfortunately another problem has arisen which wasn't there before it was repaired. The batteries seem to continue to discharge themselves even when the camera is switched off - leaving me with a flat battery long before I'd expected it - in less than a day instead of a week or so. Very irritating - I will have to contact Canon again.

Delicious colours









Tracks made by heavy rain the day before.


Wild flowers beginning to grow in the extended wild flower bed.

Little leaf like a concertina
Tiny white flowers
The Korean pine continues to surprise me. These looked like baby Korean pine cones but they have opened up now and I think they may be the flowers before the cones form.


Some of the scented yellow azaleas are beginning to drop - each flower slips off and dangles from the thread like stigma.

Strange hanging pod like flowers

Walk 2. THE "ACCIDENTAL" WALK.

This morning I hadn't actually intended to go to Coombe Wood. I planned to combine a walk with the search for something suitable to photograph for the Facebook 30 Day Photography Challenge that I'm taking part in. Today's topic is Branches but I was looking for something different - tree branches seemed a bit obvious. I wanted to photograph branches in the train or tram track - but after driving around and walking quite a distance I failed to find anywhere where I could get the sort of view I wanted, so I went back to the idea of photographing branches and headed for Coombe Wood again 0 there are plenty of branches there to choose from. In the end I decided on one of many photos I took of the Judas tree branches, covered in amazing blossom.

Of course I just had to take other photos while I was there.














Thank you very much for joining me.

4 comments:

  1. The beds of pink and white are just beautiful - and a similar colour scheme to some at Kew; but I love the much less structured look at Coombe Wood. Hope you sort your battery issue out after finally getting your camera back!

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    1. Thank you very much Helen. I hope I get it sorted out too - very frustrating!

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  2. I'm so pleased you had to go back for the 'branches' theme Angela, because there are some stunning photos in your second half.....(and in your first half too of course!).

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