Cotoneaster Sp;

Coming back from getting my pension I noticed the Cotoneaster flowers on the Morrisons' bushes were well out.
I nipped off a sprig and took a few macro shots when I got home. The flowers on my big bush along the wall are not yet opened but the bees are busy probing into the buds now. 
10 dioptre lens on my Tamron 90mm lens gives 3 times lifesize approx.
I recently found my old Cobra flash reflector. Bought 2 for about £3 years ago. Out of curiousity I looked on Ebay, One offered for £9.99 plus postage on top.

Lots of good stuff.

As I was leaving Yatton I noticed a skip by the side of the hall.
It seems a shame that so much good stuff is thrown away. Builders cannot use it because once used it is secondhand  The plywood was quite thick and the made-up piece with timber on was large too.
3x2 inch timber and 1 inch thick ply. If I was driving a pick-up instead of the Smart-idiot it would have traveled back with me. 

Union of South Africa with the Duchy excursion

Went down to the Horsecastle farm crossing at 20 to 9. Crowded. So I went  to Yatton station.  Not so many there although by the time the train was due there were more. I wish the up platform was a long as the down one. The reason I wanted to use the farm crossing was to get her pulling away but all you can see at Yatton station is carriages rather than locomotive.. 

Changing fields

Drove Martin down to his workshop. As we went by the Kenn River bridge on the boundary saw a calfs leg bones on the road side.

Got down to Broadstone and there was a flock of sheep being driven. Usual thing is to see them in a trailer.

Took a few pix for the record.

I told Martin I would look in to Riverside Farm on the way back and mention about the calf bones.

Got to talking when I was there, Andrew said if a stillborn calf dropped it was easy for foxes to detach a leg and carry it off. They had not lost a calf.

I mentioned a pic taken years ago probably in the1920's of the model T Ford with my father talking to Mrs Griffin when her husband managed the farm for Mr House. Promised to do a copy for him. Then found that it was one of the ones lost when the hard drive played up.

Jane had a print but it was very light. I jiggled it with the histogram and the 4870 scanner did a good job for me.

Tweeked it and got details in the wall and darker a little all over.

Atrium Nailsea School.

Took this when I was covering the Nailsea Flower Show for Carol Deacon and the Nailsea People internet paper. I wonder if the paper will continue to flourish now they have cut the staff numbers. 

Many of the numerous societies have no idea of how to promote their publicity - public-wise - 

If it had not been for the mess up with my internet connection it would have been posted then.

Not all that fond of modern architecture but this I did like. Airy and light leaving useful space especially when you think of classroom changes and milling pupils 

Sygnets hatch 

The swans with a nest beside the road in Kingston had 5 little cygnets hatch out.
Cob had changed his pattern of waiting in the field opposite and was standing on the roadside guarding.
I noticed a broken egg shell and Sunday I stopped and after a while he realised I meant no harm and moved back. I didn't risk getting out but to a few pix from my seat in the Smart idiot.
A blow from a swan's wing is hard enough to break a bone in the arm. 
It made up a little for the disappointment of the Union of South Africa being withdrawn and a stinking diesel replacing it on the Duchy Express. Hope they can solve the "hot-box" trouble soon enough for next week-end.

Hawthorn blossom Crataegus monogyna 

A bit stupid this morning. I went down to take steam pix of "The Union of South Africa" Mallard Class A4.
Wondered why there had been no-one show up at Horsecastle crossing and realised it is on the 2nd June NOT the 1st.
Hawthorn blossom is showing well in the hedgerows and I took a couple of pix to post on Morguefile and Flickr.
Also some of what I think could be ragwort but the leaves seem to be wrong from the pictures in the wildflower books.- Posted a composite on Flickr to see what they think in the Flora and ID Please groups.