Reclamation

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agricultural machinery parts, ironwork, jumble, junk, reclamation, rusty metal sculpture, treasure

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Squid

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Australian marine creatures, Mornington, Mornington Peninsula, squid, Victoria

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Evening Alliums

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Buscot Park, complementary colours, Cotswolds, garden borders, Oxfordshire

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

A Walk in the Windrush Valley

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Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, hay bales, Sherborne, Windrush valley

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Heard the wind rustling or rushing through the leaves. Now I know why the valley has that name.

Carp

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acrylic paint, Buscot Park, carp, fish, gold ink, Oxfordshire

Acrylic painting from a photo I have already published on this site, under ‘Looming’

Candia Dixon-Stuart

Rousham Bantam

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bantams, Barbus, Mille Fleurs d'Uccell, poultry, Rousham

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Tiger Lilies

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Hot borders, tiger lilies, Turk's Cap Lily

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Hot? Well, it’s not!

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Alexander Pope, Dryden, Matthew Arnold, universal greyness, weather

Wish it was. Fed up with the universal greyness that covers all.

Was that Alexander Pope? Dryden?

I’m thinking ‘Dunciad.’ Maybe it was Matthew Arnold- I forget, alas.

I know Europe is burning, but here it is day after day of grey

nothingness.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Anyone for lemonade?

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cow parsley, English gardens, inviting ambience, oranges and lemons, private corner, staycation

Inviting corner by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Old Man’s Beard

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black & white photography, clematis vitalba, climbing plants, Old Man's Beard

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart