Photo Scavenger Hunt for April 2014

Hi, thank you for all your lovely lovely kind comments. It means so much to me that you all cared so much.  xx

Hurrah! How much fun it is to hunt for items especially when on holiday. (Note to all- I was a super well-behaved Scavenger this month and got right on with it so even the post was begun in the Easter holidays! To make up largely for being so late the last few months!)

Greenthumb provided the lovely list of items this time.


I was delighted to see TRUCK  up for grabs- I seem to spend my time travelling on the A1 up to Northumberland, giggling at the funny lorryloads that pass us by.  Sadly, a few real corkers were missed as I spotted them too late to snap- including the Rolo tube lorry, a truck carrying another truck, 2 tractors aboard, a conservatory and more!  Combining Truck and Carry here.

Truck 1 has a rather nice load of spools of thick cable- Ang/Bob, you could make a HUGE cotton-reel table out of one of these! Ones for giants!

I have NO idea what Truck no.2 is for- it had all these weird holes at the side- I almost lost the camera and my head, leaning out the window at 70mph!

Yay, everyone's favourite truck is no.3- precarious new car loads

Truck no.4 is my personal favourite- 20metres of straw!!! Again, serious danger of decapitation was experienced in the making of this photo!

A is for?

Archaeological.  Here at Vindolanda, voluteers dig in search of archaeological findings on this Roman site.  Apparently, they ask for hundreds of volunteers to apply each year and the places are filled within 10 minutes when the application site goes live.  I tried hard to get a shot in which the volunteers' faces were not showing and snapped this moment!

11am



Rubbish phone photo but I've been pretty hopeless with the timed ones so far so when I saw an opportunity...

Smooth

The most delicious chocolate cake that CBC made on Easter Sunday to herald my return to chocolate eating.  It was sublime and so smooth- a really moist gateau/cake.  A week on and it is still really tasty and smooth and moist!
Scale

3 scales in fact (all 3 are descending)- in Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata.  The sonata was written originally for this mysterious instrument,an Arpeggione,  an archaic string instrument which no longer exists. It was 6-stringed and had frets like a guitar but was played with a bow like a cello, held between the knees. It was invented c.1823 by Johann Georg Stauffer, who was a guitar maker from Vienna.  It had a brief spate of popularity around a decade after its invention but it was short-lived.    This was one of the last solo viola pieces I learnt before stopping viola lessons and it is a corker- very very hard but very satisfying to play.  It is transcribed for all manner of instruments but I like it best on the viola. (Thank you to Wiki for the details)


Tile

Tiles found at two examples of my hobbies-

Chequered tiles at the church my orchestra rehearsed at on Palm Sunday

and more ornate tiles at my lindy-hop class in Southend.


Logo

Strictly speaking, titles of products or items but they're synonymous with logos surely- my drawings as a teenager of logos/titles- we found this sketchpad at my Grandad's house which is full of my drawings I would do when I was there. Many happy hours there spent drawing, when not playing in the heavenly garden.

Scrap


This is actually a photo from November- my local park's bonfire preparation and I've wanted to share it for ages- not because it is a great picture but just for the sheer fascination of what made up the bonfire- it looks like some sort of scrap igloo- it even appears to have an entrance!!!!   (Katie- that's an idea for your DIY fort- make one then burn it!!!!)


Match
I had a GREAT example for this- I spotted two Police vans driving side by side with identical registration numbers bar one letter and snapped a shot but it's probably not a great thing to publish photos of police cars on the net!
So instead...


Yes, er, matches (CBC just totally dissed this. "Big deal, it's matches you saddo!"
Or this?
Path


A winding path on Castle Crag in the Lake District (near Borrowdale)- that's WOMOTM climbing up. On the way down, I was the one at the back.  Having a bit of a hissy fit over walking on loose slates...

Layers


In the woods, I saw many layers- piles of wood, the rings and cross-section of trees, fallen branches, cracked logs.  All beautiful, all intricate.  Here, I looked down into a broken log to see the different layers of grain

During our Lake District walk, we saw this 'cliff'of rock with all the different layers of colours/types of stone.

Head over to Greenthumb for more April photo goodness and why not join in next time?  Val did!