Travel Tuesday is traveling back to southern Cheshire in the mid 1980s.
If I saw a red post box in nice light I would stop and take a few photos for one of the photo agencies I was contracted to. Red post boxes are regarded as a British cultural icon and as a result book and magazine editors are frequently looking for photos of them.
This is the post box on the junction of Wybunbury Lane and Haymoor Green Road near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge prompt: Flowers: Blue or Purple.
I thought of two blue flowers that I find visually interesting, Borage and Chicory.
A Borage flower in a garden in Nantwich, Cheshire, England in the mid 1990s. Photographed with a 300mm telephoto lens to isolate the flower and buds from the surrounding plants.
A Chicory flower on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada last September. Photographed with a fast portrait lens to help isolate the flower from the surrounding plants.
Flora and Fauna Friday this week is Cotoneaster horizontalis growing in a garden in Nantwich, Cheshire, England.
The plant is native to western China but it is a popular garden plant in the U.K. where it has become naturalised and may be becoming invasive. The berries are a popular food source for various bird species in the winter.
Travel Tuesday this week is a follow-up to last week which featured the South Cheshire Pipe Band drummer.
This is the band performing on The Square in the town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England during a Medieval Fair.
Travel Tuesday is traveling back to the town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England in the mid 1980s.
There was a Medieval Fair on the town square although there wasn’t much sign of anything medieval. The South Cheshire Pipe Band were performing on a section of the square.
This week’s Flora and Fauna Friday post is a Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) flower after rain.
The plant is native to eastern North America but widely grown in cottage gardens. This specimen was photographed in a garden in Nantwich, Cheshire, England.
My Travel Tuesday blog post this week is traveling back to the market town of Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England in the mid 1980s.
This is part of the town square and some of the buildings surrounding it. Known locally as The Square it’s the center of the oldest part of the town. The town has one of the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England with lots of good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture.
A fire in December of 1583 destroyed most of the town to the east of the River Weaver which runs through the town.
