October Scavenger hunt

Ahrgh, there was some definite tenuous scrambling and shifty conduct  involved in the completing of the task this month!  I HAD half term and yet here I am hunting through folders trying to see if something will match up!  Thanks to Greenthumb for another super list of items to look for! Can I strongly suggest you go and click the link to see some other versions of this. There are some seriously talented photographers in this challenge who wow me every month with their crisp, beautiful photos and their ingenuity!


October's List


O is for ?
"Ouch!" says the bee as it lands on the rather spiky plant!



It is also for 'opening'. I wanted to share this Dubrovnik view.



6pm
Though the photo itself was not taken at 6pm, this is generally what I used to do at 6pm before I moved away from my old house.  Now it is more likely to be 7.30pm since I have a long journey home from school and inevitably don't leave before 6.30pm!


Morning
I should append this with a sad addendum. This is NOT a typical morning in my life,but then you don't want to see a blurred picture of me scurrying across the park or sweating and panting on a train as I make it with one second to spare.  This was my Saturday morning in half term.  Blissful, reading a new charity shop purchase (dead chuffed to find another Inspector Colbeck book) drinking Earl Grey from CBC's Denby mug and eating resurrected porridge.  Yes, it was the scrapings of CBC's porridge pan which I added milk to, stirred lovingly and brought back to life.  It was tasty. I sat there for ages!



Something you bought:
Oh HOW SAD CBC and I are. We are totally excited about our new bins! We went to John Lewis on Friday night and spent some vouchers on two new bins.  Look, can you see the halos above them! Makes SUCH a difference to the hodge-podge of pink recycling bag and open bucket bin we have survived on for a year.


I'd really like to own anthropomorphic bins but CBC says no, something does not need eyes or a tash to be pretty. Ha, what does he know!?


Light



I enjoyed the light from these candles- the definite flames amidst a mishmash of melted wax!

Close up

Can you tell what it is yet?? I WILL be blogging about this soon, so stay tuned if you want to find out what it was! 



Favourite

My favourite walk in Northumberland will always be the first one I took, and one which I repeated this holiday.  I love the walk along Haltwhistle Burn and here is my favourite part of the walk: the rock face of faces....



And here is my favourite face, which I am pretty sure has featured in a Scavenger hunt long ago...



Isn't that a noble nose!?



Also, because I just don't think anyone noticed them in my Dubrovnik photo post,these are CLEARLY someone's favourite pants. FIVE pegs for one teensy-weensy pair of pants???




Lunch
Now before you get hoity-toity with me over this being my lunch, let me assure you, it was accompanied by a healthy jacket potato with plentiful salad. But you don't want to look at that, you want to look at the BEST chocolate milkshare ever! Mountain of cream: check,  flake on the side: check, flake on top: check, Not too sweet: check, Not fake syrup: Check. Parfait! 



Childhood

My grandad's garden was a place of wonder as a child. We spent SO much of our childhood wandering in those beautiful gardens and yet being nonchalant about the towering trees that formed the border of this garden. I took a walk in his garden recently, now overgrown and couldn't believe the size of this Sequoiya tree.  It has a preservation order on it, it is such a beautiful tree, towering majestically above th other trees.



Your Sky

I often encounter beautiful skies as I walk home from work. This was a GLORIOUS sky I glimpsed in the summer which deserved to be shared yet hadn't been.


Colour:
I have definitely used an oilslick for a scavenger hunt before but they are such a beautiful example of colour resulting from something not so nice.  Bizarrely, this was on the path by Haltwhistle Burn/



Your shoes:
My NEW shoes. I am really naughty to have bought these, particularly since I found some mighty fine boots in a charity shop recently plus other new shoes in the summer but when i saw these turquoise DMs, I kept thinking of how many occasions I had wet feet last winter when walking to school. The trouble is, I am attracted to impractical materials for boots (I don't mean knee-highs but you don't always want to wear those or indeed wellies) most of my boots are suede or somehow bizarrely let in stones. So I justified these by my long winter walks and the fact I lack turquoise shoes. Yes, I know. I don't believe me either.



So, any favourites?  Did you take part? Do let me know if you've done any scavenging...
xx