Tag: Photography

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge #Poet’sChoice #Etheree #Trees #Photography #Bookish

I love trees, and enjoy my wanders in the Cambridge Botanical Gardens which is home to many champion trees. Just recently I came upon this beautiful Paperbark Maple, such a find for an author: a tree that peels it bark, like the well-worn pages of a book that has been read many times! So, I decided to grace […]

Bloggers Bash

The Bloggers Bash 2019 – Highlights and Photos #bloggersbash @BloggersBash

June 16, 2019 33 Comments

I can count on one hand how many bashes I have attended – five in total. Each have been different but one aspect is undeniable – I have put on a little weight since the first one. I blame Ritu’s wonderful cakes! Do check out Ritu’s new author blog: https://ritubhathal.com It was lovely reconnecting with old friends and making new […]

Graffiti Murals

Grafitti Murals – Montreal Canada

May 26, 2019 22 Comments

I’m just back from a lovely holiday with my two daughters in Montreal. Everywhere I looked there appeared to be Grafitti murals on the streets. Being a big fan of Graffiti murals I thought I’d share them with you. See the one above? It’s the very first mural I saw on my holiday situated near our Airbnb in Laurier. […]

Blog Battle

#BlogBattle: Flower – Mr Sagitarrius

January 19, 2019 16 Comments

This is my entry for Rachael Ritchey’s #BlogBattle – Flower https://blogbattlers.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/flower/ This is inspired by my frequent visits to the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge. It truly is a magical place. Mr Sagittarius I know I am dying so I have come to bid all my loves and especially my dearest orchid a final farewell. I pray I will surrender […]

Poetry

Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge Poets Choice of Words #Edinburgh #Shadorma #Poetry #Photography #City #New Year

January 5, 2019 19 Comments

It’s poet’s choice of words this week so I thought I’d share with you some of my photographs of Edinburgh – a city I love so much – and my first attempts at Shadorma poetry… It calls me This Scottish City Beautiful Lights twinkle Edinburgh’s dark shadows Perfect time and place Your buildings Adorned like parcels Pink […]

Photography

Colleens Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No 112 – #Travel #Lisbon #Photography #HardRockCafe #Music #Accident #Trip #Fall

December 1, 2018 12 Comments

My hubby and I went for a long weekend to Lisbon. Unfortunately I had a fall on holiday and hurt my foot. I’d been out the night before at the Hard Rock Cafe, (indulging in cocktails and behaving like I’m one of the youngsters.) My hubby and I were listening to a very good cover band. The next […]

Poetry

Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Tuesday Challenge No. 54: GHOST & HAUNT

October 15, 2017 20 Comments

I dream in colour, But now everything is dark, Where has the light gone? Oh, cruel leafy canopy? No green meadow, just blue thoughts. A spectre haunts me, Through the trees he drifts slowly, I hear no weeping, Just a tall, grey wall of sighs, Twigs snap, and nothing changes. © M J Mallon 2017. Oh dear, that […]

Photography

Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge No. 48 #Haiku #Tanka #Haibun: STONE & TURN

September 2, 2017 19 Comments

My Tanka this week is just a funny story really. This is what happened… The day before our daughter Tasha was due to go to South Korea to teach English as a foreign language my youngest disappeared. She’d been out for a driving lesson and no one had heard from her. Her mobile had been left on the bed […]

The Kelpies

The Kelpies, a pink bus shelter and two taxi drivers

August 3, 2017 40 Comments

I’ve been longing to see the Kelpies, two enormous horse sculptures that live in Falkirk, Scotland. This had been on my bucket list of things to do whilst up in Edinburgh. Not only did I come face to face with the Kelpies I also met two entertaining taxi drivers and came across a bright pink bus shelter with no buses. […]

Blogging Collaboration

Happy Easter!!!

April 16, 2017 27 Comments

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter. I’m still on a bit of a blogging break until my eldest daughter returns to University so will be somewhat scarce in blogging land. I had a wonderful holiday up in Edinburgh but it was all too short… Here are some of my photos: That’s one of me and my daughter Georgina before […]