Fairy Grotto II

It occurs to me this would be the equivalent of a ‘potential barn conversion’ to fairies or other little folk.

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Salt Island

I’m sure there are opportunities to take plenty of interesting abstract images of desalination forms in salt pans.

—Stephen G. Hipperson—

Cacti

You know when you do stuff and the instant you do it you know you shouldn’t – well, I bent down to pick up one of the fruits that had fallen – oops! It was just one of things – no real hassle in my case, as my daughter was on hand with a pair of tweezers and quickly pulled the needles from the tips of my fingers, but I can imagine circumstances might be a little different if I had happened to be a little one.

—Stephen G. Hipperson

Skein

Interesting effect in the reduced sizing for my blog – definite halo it seems – over processed, I guess.

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Before the Leaves

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Two Trees

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Little Egret

This Little Egret was taking advantage of the fish stranded by the recent flooding of the River Wharfe near Wetherby. A few years back these birds would have attracted a small crowd of ‘twitchers’, but they seem to be quite well established in the UK now.

—Stephen G. Hipperson—

What did I say?

Almost as bad as ‘I told you so!’ – but as predicted our moley house builders looked to have come a cropper in the lastest flooding of the local Ings. Judging by the height of the debris line, the water might have been as much as 6ft deep here overnight. I’m not sure the little blighters would necessarily have got drown, as I saw evidence of fresh disturbance from underneath on a few of the mounds.

—-Stephen G. Hipperson—

Molehill Landscape

Looks as if the mole’s town planners are as good ours at the moment … see a bit of green and build a house on it. AND, in this case, they also seem to be ignoring the basic good sense of avoiding flood plains as this field regularly floods every year.

—Stephen G. Hipperson—

Sleeping Serpent

Another for my collection of pareidolia photos.

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