May Scavenger Hunt

Time for the May Scavenger Hunt with Greenthumb at Made with love. This one was considered a bit challenging by some but for some reason I managed to do it with relative ease! What do you know!

May's List

Blue

On Tuesday, we went to a wonderful B&B called Cutthorne deep in the heart of the Exmoor National Park in North Somerset which I will tell you more about soon. They have their own beautiful grounds and we took a pre-dinner walk here. I love the vivid blue of the sky reflected in the water. You can see CBC in his red trousers on the horizon and my shadow to the right,

Crystal









I hit the jackpot with this one. After our night in Exmoor, we travelled onto Totnes.  We went into a Crystal shop in Totnes and saw these amazing geodes. They cost about £1000 a piece.   I asked if we could take a picture of them (we did buy something later too- present for someone!) 
Here's a couple of as I couldn't decide which one to select.  All amethyst except the orange one-not sure what that is!

Vintage

The B&B in Exmoor is a 14th century farmhouse and they have painstakingly created an old country estate feel to it with antiques at every turn- all our room furniture was too and I am cross I forgot to take a picture of our carved mahogony bedstead. Here you can see some very, very  vintage stag horns (sorry) and other items.


Fluff

In the meadow above the house, I kept a look out for sheep fluff and found this scattering of something fluffy with the sunlight bouncing off it.

And of course this dandelion clock is very fluffy! Oh so fun as a child but now I just see them as potential pests to be dug out the lawn!

Global

I knew that I would have issues with this one. It's a bit of a cop-out but I figured that Globe would be close enough. Also the Globe signs and words cover most of the picture so I'd say the distribution is pretty global! This pub was in Buckfastleigh, near Totnes.

Mask


Our room at Cutthorne had the most wonderful view out onto a meadow with a tree with bird feeders.   I sat lying in wait for a nuthatch bird for ages as I'd seen one before dinner and they have facial features like a black Zorro mask.  This one was remarkably flighty and really would not stay still for a photo. You can't really see his Zorro mask very well but I am posting it anyway after all the time I spent lying in wait.


And in case you wont allow me that, he was a Phantom-style mask in the art-shop window in Totnes. I don't really like masks.

Bus

Rubbish pictures dot com but I saw this bus coming up the hill in Salcombe and just grabbed the camera as quick as I could.

Frame


Again, awful photo but isn't the frame lovely! This mirror reminds me of the one in Van Eyck's painting of the Alfioni marriage

Collection

We visited the South Devon railway which is a wonderful way to spend an afternoon travelling on the steam engines. We allighted at Staverton station which is made to look like platform from the past. I spied this collection of milk churns...



and a collection of red tin buckets at Staverton station.

Poster

Here are some old fashioned tin posters advertising products at Staverton station. I love these old advertising posters.

Ribbon

I gave up getting my crown and glory Glitterati boxes but one of my favourite items in the last box (which sadly was the best one) was this lovely flower and butterfly crown with trailing ribbons.

Whatever you want


Being daft with my husband.  We decided to try and make a shadow heart in the meadow, apparently we had a bemused audience!

I do enjoy the Scavenger Hunt and I urge you to take part if you'd like a new blogging challenge and another way to get you to use your camera!



Here's the list for June:
J is for ?
Rust 
Smooth
Imagination
Classic
Similar
Parallel
Socks
Bead
Mug
Poster
Whatever you want


xxx