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The last two pics are of work by artist Sophie Ryder
They feature stunning bronze and galvanised wire sculpture in the open air around the Camellia House.
Ryder’s work draws on human, animal and mythological forms, melding the attitudes and instincts of each to create a series of hybrids. Ryder has developed a narrative around the Lady-Hare; a creature with a hare’s head and the artist’s own female body. Through this character the artist examines the human condition and plays out her own emotions.
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View from the upstairs landing window
Views from the down the street
Front view of bird with man looking through.
Rear view showing full length of man
I move a little closer
By the glass door
Through the smear stained window
Every day I walk down the hill and pass this wall.
I'd nod in passing to the elderly gentleman who would spend hours tending his landscaped garden and the rose beds at the front.
Then one day, about six years ago he informed us that he had sold up and was moving to retire in Cornwall.
We heard that property developers had bought the property at substantial cost and right enough, in time, an application to develop the site and knock the bungalow down in order to build seven luxury homes was submitted...and rejected.
It was rented out for about a year but since then it has been uninhabited.
I took a walk down the drive the other day in order to take photos for the dereliction challenge, not really knowing what was up there as you can only see the roof-top from the road.
The gardens have been left to to seed, that much I did know!
..and I could see that the roof has had some of its tiles removed
I walked around the back and it confirmed my suspicion that it had not been visited in a long while. The tiles on the roof have been missing for the best part of a year but there they were stacked in the back garden!
The garden furniture has not been used last summer that much one can see.
I wonder what will happen eventually, in these difficult economic times.
Every other property around nearby seems to be extending but this is completely neglected. I suppose the developers are just sitting on it and will eventually get to build their mini estate ...only time will tell 
If you look real close on the beach in the first pic..i'm sure it's Kiki herself sunbathing there 
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These are photos I took of the Cathedral and its doors in Valladolid.
The Cathedral is being restored once more , this time the wonderful great doors are the object of the restoration
When you look at the side doors, a different picture is displayed...modern day graffitti? or maybe we should call it ancient grafitti .....hieroglyphics has a lot to answer for
Click on photos as usual for big pic.
I have a thing about snapping 'men at work'.
here are some (men) putting the finishing touches to a carpet of flower petals
The last one above is of the completed carpet..it took days to create and the following day a civic and religious procession was held where they walked solemnly upon and through the carpet.
Individual emblems
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It wasn't easy getting these snaps as I had to 'battle' with a lot of other photographers who were trying to take pictures of the petal carpet before it was dishevelled..
Under the trees near the lake there were shadows and sunlight on the autumn leaves...the duck was in there somewhere..it did a good job of blending in
There were scores of Canada geese and they were all around me
....and here they all are on the lake
Sandal Castle is the site where Richard Plantagenet(Grand old Duke of York) fell in the battle of Wakefield in 1460. It is a ruin now but it is still a nice place to wander around.
The approach to the site from the direction where the battle is purported to have taken place.
Plenty of sales for this unusual product at The Leeds West Indian carnival
I collected them up and made a posy
Downtown Cairo
Workman at the resort of Sharm El Sheik
See how straight their legs are
I spied with my little eye,
a flying thing called a dragonfly
his colours though were not very bright
but he was perfectly formed alright!
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