Tuesday, May 03, 2011

#TheGallery - April

Having a bit of a photo blog week this week. Partly because I am too busy to sit down and write my usual essays and partly because I have taken sooooo many lovely pics in the last few weeks.

This weeks prompt for The Gallery is simply APRIL. It's been a fabulous month, the weather has been amazing and the cold, grey winter seems a distant memory. My garden is flourishing ( a little too vigorously for me to keep up with it, if truth be known!) and so are the fields, footpaths and hedgerows around the Forest. So to celebrate all this wild abundance I am blogging weeds...ahem...wild flowers in all their glory :)


I can't do a post about flowers in April without adding two very beautiful but poignant pictures.
A couple of weeks ago we said goodbye to Owen's Nan, Mrs Trudie Sheppard. An amazing woman, disabled from birth but with a tenacious character and a zest for life that carried her through 90 years. She did not let her disability hold her back in any way and spent her retirement campaigning and fundraising to provide a dial-a-ride service and day centre facilities for elderly frail and disabled people which culminated in the building of Sheppard House in Newent and earned her an M.B.E.

She will be sadly missed.




12 comments:

  1. I love all the beautiful flowers.....and some weeds are just as gorgeous as cultivated blooms! Am sorry to hear about your loss, she sounds like she was a very bright and amazing woman :)

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  2. Those chryses are lovely. Such purity.

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  3. sorry to hear about your loss, but what an incredible woman who is a part of your life. Beautiful pics - thanks for sharing ;)

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  4. Beautiful photos, and a moving post.

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  5. Gosh your photos are stunning. Sorry to hear about Owen's nan passing, what an amazing woman she sounds.

    Mich x

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  6. Such beautiful pictures. I am so sorry for your loss.

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  7. Lovely images and a moving tribute to someone who sounds like a very wonderful women indeed.
    My Gallery thing is over at http://gigglingatitall.blogspot.com

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  8. Those are truly beautiful flowers.

    I'm always moved by the tales of people challenged by disability who do well; it is bittersweet for me in a way, but marvellous. She sounds amazing.

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  9. A bittersweet post but the pictures are fantastic. The wild flowers really make it seem later in the year than it is.

    (can I also say you are only the second non-famous Anthea I know! - unless you are famous and I haven't realised...)

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  10. beautiful photographs. Touch tribute to amazing women - lovely X

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  11. beautiful photos and moving post :)

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  12. beautiful photographs. Touch tribute to amazing women - lovely X

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