Photo hunting May 2012...belatedly!

I did actually manage to take all the photos for the May list from Kathy (Postcards from the PP) in the month of May but didn't find time to actually post them! So a few days late here they are...

Good things...

There is a small bakery just down the road from me. I don't eat a huge amount of bread but occasionally I treat myself to something from there and the day I nipped in for this it had just come out of the oven. It was so warm I had to keep switching it from one hand to the other as I walked home, even wrapped in its paper bag! I cannot tell you how good the smell was - so much so that I just had to eat a piece as soon as I got back!!! Yum!

Small packages...

This little parcel was for my Mum's birthday and contained a sweet pair of vintage jade earrings I found in a 'treasure' shop; it loosely calls itself 'antiques and collectables'! Not much in the way of true antiques there but all sorts of discarded unwanted stuff - much of it a bit grotty but some of it lovely. Always good for a mooch...!

Fragrance...

I've walked past this amazing wisteria a lot in the last few weeks and the fragrance, especially in the evening has been quite intoxicating. Beautiful.

Station...

Norwich train station - of course... Couldn't come up with anything more imaginative than this I'm afraid.

Nose...

I've never been very good at the whole wine appreciation malarky - well, I do appreciate it (!) but I couldn't be very specific about the grape, or the 'hints of...' I just know some I like better than others (complete heathen of course!). However, I'm pretty sure this red did have a good nose...! It went down very nicely... 

Front page...

Unless you had your head firmly in the proverbial sand it would be just a bit difficult to ignore certain events this year! This is our local freebie paper's take on things..!

Nine...

I have so many knitting needles! When I was taking these photos for an earlier post I realised I had 9mm and old-style imperial No 9s together here. You've got to love knitting on 9mm... speedy!!

Beverage...

Tom's 'Giddy Giraffe' smoothie - can't quite remember what was in it, definitely mint and lime, and I think passion fruit...whatever, it was delish!

Currency...

It struck me that a lot of the time my main form of currency these days is plastic - I have a purse full of plastic cards of one sort or another and often no cash at all!!

Historic...

Part of the old city wall - lots of historic buildings and structures locally are built with flint stones. I love the texture and ruggedness of them. And I also love that these tiny plants can somehow find a tiny hold and take root there.

Yellow...

I took so many pictures of yellow things last month but out walking one day this made me stop and smile. There is a lot of municipal planting in Norwich and the theme this year, at least in terms of spring bulbs, was very much with the pink, white and dark purple varieties (can't decide if this is a close call to the patriotic red, white and blue?). So this one rogue yellow tulip rather 'stood out from the crowd'! Whoops.

Do you see what I see? 

Blue sky! And sunshine! We have had such a lot of grey, dull days that when we had a succession of days with gorgeous clear blue skies it seemed worth recording! Of course, now normal weather service seems to have been resumed with almost continuous rain today - but this was lovely while it was here!

So that's my lot for May, thanks as always to Kathy for the inspiration - I'm off to look at some other hunters finds and to see what's on the list for June!!

Til next time...

Sx