Question: What is one new thing I’d like to try?
I might be appalling at posting on my blog, but I do keep an online journal where I usually respond to a daily prompt, plus, I have taken at least one photograph a day for well over a year – usually of the scenery. Taking photos of the scenery has become something of an obsession. It began because I was sometimes finding my walks dull and repetitive, so I challenged myself to take a photo each day. I started looking around for photograph fodder and became more aware of the changing seasons, and how the weather can alter a scene completely – rain, mist, and fog are no longer always my enemies!
From 13/10/22
And from last week…
There is now always something new to look at even though I’m more or less beating the same track everyday.
Anyhow, I have decided that when I’m stuck for a post I can make it all very easy with a prompt and a picture.
Answer: I would like to try being really, really rich.
Wonky Words 
Hmmm…I’ll have to think about this.
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I know, Dinah, this post is extremely thought provoking!
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I’m REALLY giving it some thoughts…
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Dinah – I’m still waiting…
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So far all my photos have been of some artificial flowers as I relearn how to use my damn camera! Yours are lovely, sweetpea! xoxo
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Savvy – Thank you!! Actually, I really need to pick up my proper camera again – I was just looking for the manual – these pics are from my phone, which is easy to carry whilst walking the dog. I feel very guilty about my proper camera.
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I love your photos, they are like episodes in a soap opera about fields.
I’ve just been on a hazardous tree survey course, walking in the countryside is going to take a new and interesting turn!
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Thank you, Eryl – I like the idea that the fields have a narrative, but yes they do!
Loose branches and fungal disease? I dash past certain trees when it’s windy, but somehow I don’t think that’ll save me!
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Ooh, now there’s an idea!
Both the daily photograph AND the being rich thingy. Especially the being rich thingy!
Smashing photos, btw. I love barley fields, but I haven’t seen any around the immediate environs here. The fields are either fallow or full of oil seed rape. Bah.
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Mr Devine – I wonder what it’s like to be mega rich? I was thinking that I would use the money to stop wars and feed people – do you think seriously rich people contribute to doing that?
I would also spend a lot of it frivolously, I’m sure!
There was a field of rape last year – gloriously yellow – but then the sheep ate it all and it was ploughed back into the soil.
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I think I might like to try being rich, too. VERY rich! I keep doing the Lottery and the Euromillions, but I think they need to shake those numbers up a bit. Jx
PS Nice trees.
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Thanks, Jon! I wonder what it’s like just to have whatever you want, whenever you want? And to never have to worry about pensions, food, and the price of electricity. It’s another world.
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I often dream of living like the Dowager Countess of Grantham. Denker! Spratt! {{ting-a-ling}}! Jx
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Jon – I rewatched the whole of Downton Abbey recently, and the two films, and I’ve had the same dream!
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We watched all of it, with the exception of the second film (for some strange reason, we just never got around to it). Sumptuous… Jx
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The second film is a bit odd – it’s almost a send up of the whole thing, but it was still enjoyable, and it was nice to see Mary and Edith getting on with each other.
I think it’s one of my favourite programmes ever!
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I see that second picture and think of Larkrise to Candleford.
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Mistress B – I’ve not seen Larkrise – but I know what you mean! It is bucolic here – which sounds like some sort of hideous disease, but isn’t!
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I like the idea of the similar pictures taken months apart. I enjoy picking the similarities. The two trees and building are in both but the angle and distance changed.
With a good amount of effort you could turn the analysis of two pictures into a mystery game.
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Oh my goodness, Bill!!! This mystery game sounds like a lot of effort, and might involve a printer, and trying to find the exact spot where I took the original photo = probably easier said than done! But I will put it on my list of ideas!!
I love then and now photos!
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Well, I still haven’t come up with any thunks remotely sensible.
But if we’re talking serious money, not just a few grand, I suppose I’d like to spend more time in Europe (especially the bits that the bloody Russians had fenced-off all the time I lived in Europe! )
I think I’m a bit past long-haul flights so it would, indeed, need to be oodles of loot so I could take my time getting there.
Juswt let me know when you have a few oodles!
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Dinah – Are you suggesting a cruise? Now that could be fun! I will book the tickets as soon….what am I saying? If I had oodles of dosh I’d buy a flipping yacht and employ a crew. And a floating butler.
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“I would like to try being really, really rich,” Why don’t you try being really, really poor, the maid and I often dress down and visit Northpoint Shopping Centre, Bransholme, Hull, it’s another world, they have a shop there called You Know Who’s selling items from £1-£15 and other top name retailers including New Look and Shoe Zone! After visiting Northpoint or ‘Branny Cenner’ as the locals call it, you’ll go home feeling like a millionaire.
I might go there today and take some clandestine photographs for your viewing pleasure.
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Mitzi – Photos welcome!
See, there’s the thing, there is no dressing up in Devon. Shoe-wise I have no need for anything more than wellies, flip-flops, and a pair of Vans. That’s it. And these 3 pairs of footwear go with every item of clothing I own. However, I do have a stash of shoes/boots for ‘just in case’. Sometimes I get them out and give them a dust.
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Hot tip: If you’re really really rich, keep well away from submersibles offering a glimpse of the wreckage of the Titanic….
Keep those photos coming, they’re very atmospheric.
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Nick – Hahaha!! Yes, that submersible does contain a lot of wealth! I’d buy a modern house perched on a cliff and watch the sea all day, that’d do me. No need to get into the sea.
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I think being terribly rich would be my ruin. I surely would buy any book I like. And I would travel in Europe, seeing art, some landscapes while they are still there, places …
Would I do good ? I would help a few people I know pretty well with some cash for some special uses, but I doubt that I’d do real humanitarian work. I think Gates and Soros are on such a level.
A daily photograph ? Reminds me of “Paris Daily Photograph”. I think they started a kind of hype in the early two thousands, but have no clue whether some have survived, I doubt.
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Nah, you can’t be ruined if you can’t run out of money, Mr Mags. You could open the biggest library in the world and still have change from a tenner.
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You’re finding your walks dull and repetitive? What if you tried walking backwards for the day?
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I don’t think would be terribly safe, Ms Mistress! I have enough bother going forwards.
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Love the ‘same location, diferent season’ idea, and the pictures are WONDERFUL, Ms. Scarlet. What a beautiful location. Now as for cash? The Biker and I would become 21st century nomads. Luxury mobile lifestyle, tow vehicle, a couple of electric bikes, and the wind in our thinning hair.
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