All Photographs © Steve Lakey 2013
We do like to have our family barbecues, even out of season.
Sometimes Mother Nature has different ideas!
Luckily, our barbecue cooks straight from frozen!
This is my second contribution to the Weekly Photo Challenge from WordPress.com, with this weeks’s theme of ‘Habit’. If you’d like to join in or find out more, please click here.
This is my first iPhoneography Challenge, hosted by Lens and pens by Sally. This week’s theme is Nature.
I’ve chosen three shots that I took with my iPhone 4 last winter, close to where I work, in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, U.K.
Walking through the park, I was struck by how beautiful the scene looked, and I felt inspired to pause and take a few photos.
I later tweaked the shots on my iMac, using iPhoto.
Created for the iPhoneography Challenge. Click on the logo to find out more.
Photo: Forest by George Hodan
I live close to Sherwood Forest, and have visited it many times. To me, its magic lies in pure natural beauty, rather than the dated tourist attractions of the Visitor Centre and nearby fairground. I wanted the poem to contrast the two different ‘worlds’.
Where is the Spirit of the Forest?
Is it in the peeling fairground
with the permanent “end of season” look?
Or is in the ‘Major Oak’?
Given life support, but stripped of dignity.
Ready to leave its crown,
but ambushed by the present-day sheriffs,
who want their taxes paid.
A major landmark? It’s just another tree
that fictional Robin didn’t hide in.
No river bridge to fight on,
noisy teenagers drown the friendly woodland babble.
In this green and pleasant land,
today’s outlaws steal the peace.
Chasing, shouting and laughing,
children play with their plastic bows and arrows,
their authentic Taiwanese souvenirs.
Subdued parents trickle charge their weekday batteries,
nature’s well being never-ending.
In the daily struggle,
the Forest’s Spirit wins the day.
Walk the Self-Talk 