How does my garden grow?

Does anyone have any idea what this is please? I assume it’s some sort of bee? (It was bee-sized anyway.) I’ve never seen a bee with just a white stripe before. They’re normally yellow or orange-y aren’t they? He was trying to get through my patio door, and was completely missing the bit where the door was wide open (in that way that only winged beasts can).

And here’s the moody shot where he started buzzing angrily and telling me to put the damn camera away.

My latest ‘thing’ with photos is stitching several photos together to make a panorama. I am definitely going to have to start going on more walks so I can find some more views to try it out on.

Here’s one from Tuesday. (Please click on these to view larger versions - there is a woman walking her dog somewhere on this one…)

And another. (Just for Nathalie!)

And finally - not a panorama, but I just like this one.

We had a rare day of warmth and sunshine yesterday, so I decided to go for a walk. I love walking, but I rarely get a chance to do it. Or I rarely make the effort - or something! But anyway, I have signed up for a sponsored walk next weekend in aid of this year’s “sports and social” chosen charity at work, and I thought I ought to do a little practise, and see if my walking trainers are okay etc etc. So here is my walk:

Out of town, under the motorway bridge, and up to the first stile.

Over the stile, along the edge of the field, saying hello to the dog walkers going the other way. Come across a tiny trip-trap bridge. Don’t think any goblins lived underneath it though.

Paused to reminisce at the Christmas Day pointless stile…(now covered in summer)

Then off over through the field. Looks inviting?

What’s that through the gap in the hedge?

More field..!

Spot a flash of red amongst the wheat? Barley?

Paused to admire the furrows in the ground…

…and to smell the Cow Parsley.

Back up the lane - which way to go?

A bit more than a flash of red catches my eye.

And then back over the motorway and into the field of gold.

Perfect sky…

Then back home along the abandoned lane…

Well, today I was told I move desks/departments/floors tomorrow. BOOOOO!

But, on a brighter note I found a message on my answerphone at home saying I’d passed my photography course. HURRAH!

If you’ve been kind enough to read my offerings for a while, you’ll know I’m in the middle of some upset at work. My new role - the one I had no choice about doing and don’t want to be doing - was at least on the same team. That was just about all that made it tolerable.

That is no more. Yesterday I was told the company is re-structuring. They’ve created a whole new company division and I’m being moved into it. This means I’m leaving the area I’ve worked in since 1999. The one thing that was making the unwanted role tolerable was that I was at least still sitting with the people I liked working with.

I’m somewhat on the upset side. I could be moving as soon as 14 July.

I saw that motto on a car bumper sticker the other day on my way into work and it sort of sums up how I’ve been feeling lately. I’m sort of stuck in the glums  lately - especially at work - and when I get like that it ends up being a right effort to be bothered to do anything. Felt particularly demoralised at work this week. I really don’t know what to do about that at the moment. So naturally I’m doing nothing! LOL. I just hope that life, the universe and everything will sort itself out eventually.

That’s not strictly true. My latest hope (no doubt inspired by my £50 win last month - first ever*) is that I’ll win the big one on the premium bonds so I can jack in the job, invest the dosh, live off the income and maybe earn a bit more income doing something I actually enjoy. My latest rose-tinted fantasy is to spend my days pottering around a plant nursery. (I’m sure it would be warm(ish) in the greenhouse during the winter months). So to increase the odds of that happening, I took proactive action and purchased a couple more of the bond thingies.

Or maybe pursuing the web-design thing. Or perhaps even the photo thing.

At least it was a nice sunny evening today - and breezy.  (Bit on the nippy side for June really.) I’d been wanting to play with these windmills for a while and it was just perfect for that. Who could stay miserable with colours like that? By the way, for the uninitiated - it’s MEANT to be blurry! It’s called motion blur. (Would have been a cracking example for the old photography course, but alas - I’m too late for that. Never mind…)

* And I’ve had them since I was 2 years old…