Camera Obscured

We are on holiday, at home, at the moment so opportunities to blog have become few and far between. So have the reasons to blog. When I am having fun my blogger's chair remains empty.

No pictures last time but lots this time. Recently I have been a little hard on Wiltshire and what it has to offer. When you have lived next to the sea and the moors Wiltshire's offerings can seem a little bare. But I do it a great disservice. Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury Plain, Cain hill locks, Longleat house, Stourhead Gardens. Look them all up, world heritage sites and great places to go. Even when I am at work I can be in the countryside, on foot, in my lunch hour. So big up Wiltshire. There is a great mix of beauty and just a little of the decay you would expect everywhere.

Lets start with the river Biss. From the the bridge by Trowbridge Library I have seen roach, dace, chubb, perch and even a pike lapping up the sun and ducks, long tail tits, kingfishers and waxwings. My latest spot was a crayfish crawling around by the blind house next to Bowyers. These are mixed with shopping trolley's, road signs, plastic bags and rats. 

A fish needs a bicycle

To move on from the grime there have been a lot of good spots for me recently in and around Trowbridge and Biss water park.

A little green damselfly

Butterfly and ladybird

Butterfly paradise

Chubby little friend

Some of the beauty id eventually tarnished by peoples inability to put things in the bin especially when they have had a few. The old town bridge in Trowbridge is a great meeting and drinking place for people old and young, bottles are the result.

Ten green bottles

Ten more little green bottles

Shame about the last two photos, I am now outraged of Melksham, maybe I should start a campaign to get them cleared up. Something for the future.

Finally I have managed to get a picture of yet another dragonfly that landed in my garden. here it is. 

Bit of a muddled background but quite clear.

Well I will do a holiday special but I think Trace has already done some of that and there are some lovely family photos which I might also include. Livi is doing very well with her draw at the moment and I might get some pics of her washing cars.

Next week is another big hospital week for us, Tracey sees the chemo nurse and I have to go for lung function tests. Adam is also due to have his braces removed very soon.

The premiership is about to start so I am getting my spot on the sofa ready.

Till the next time.

Chris x