14km Hike To The Cliffs At Kiliomenos The beauty of Zakynthos just never seems to end. Last Sunday the Carry On Walking group extended a previous hike to the cliffs at Kiliomenos to 14km. Kiliomenos is an area of Zakynthos we have explored many times, but I think this was probably my favourite ... [ Read More ]
Braving The Cold… For The Dogs
Braving The Cold... For The Dogs Oh my! The things we do for our dogs! Yesterday morning it was so cold it took me five minutes to defrost the windscreen. Five minutes with the blower going and using water from the hose. It was bitterly cold. I put the dogs in the car waiting for a sign that ... [ Read More ]
A Flashback Of Summer Photo
A Flashback Of Summer Photo This week seems to have passed in a blur. I'm not sure how or why it was just one of those weeks that I've not even looked at my camera. The card was still in my laptop from last weekend. Not wise as you never know when you may want to grab the camera for a quick photo ... [ Read More ]
Welcome To My Web
Welcome To My Web... Said the spider to the butterfly. This scene was spotted by some fellow walkers at the start of last Sunday's walk. What I found most amazing about this scene wasn't the fact that the spider was making easy work of the butterfly, but the fact that the butterfly seemed to ... [ Read More ]
A Stunning Dawn
A Stunning Dawn Did anyone else see it? Did Saturday start with a stunning dawn where you were? I was sat drinking my coffee, trying to fool the dogs into thinking we weren't going for a walk just yet... Does anyone else do that too? If our dogs so much as get a whiff of a walk they start ... [ Read More ]
Fairy Dining Room
Fairy Dining Room A couple of weeks ago Zakynthos was hit by a mini-cyclone and this week we've had a bit of a bone rattler of an earthquake. The earthquake caught us by surprise (as they do) and has meant I didn't get to do some of the things I planned. Getting out and about with the camera for ... [ Read More ]
Faithful Friend
Faithful Friend They say a photograph is worth a thousand words, but of course, I'm going to have to add a few more... There is so much I want to learn about taking photos and using Photoshop Elements to make them just as I want. For me sharing a photo is about sharing what I see and how I see ... [ Read More ]
A Surprise For Mum
A Surprise For Mum Oh, what a day! A couple of weeks ago I decided to organise a small birthday tea party for Mum. To say it was bound to be a surprise was a surety as her birthday was back in June, but we'd not really done anything to mark it. Mum is a busy little bee and has a nice little ... [ Read More ]
Trust Me, I’ll Catch You
Trust Me, I'll Catch You You may find it surprising to know that our cat chose us. She came to us as a feral (and I mean feral) cat. Once we realised she had kittens we started leaving food out for her and it wasn't long before she moved onto our woodpiles with her litter. She wasn't the least ... [ Read More ]
ET’s Distant Cousin
ET's Distant Cousin At the moment one of my 'must do' tasks is to go through my camera SD card and either delete or save photos. You know what it's like? Too many photos taken and not enough time to sort through them. I did go through a stage of transferring photos to sort into desktop folders, ... [ Read More ]
Days Are Shortening
Days Are Shortening That's a bit of an obvious statement really considering the time of year. All summer I've managed to take the dogs for weekend walks. I don't usually work Saturday and Sunday mornings and if I do it's only later. Which has made it perfect for walking the dogs and avoiding the ... [ Read More ]
A Jolly Green Grasshopper
A Jolly Green Grasshopper I know it's a bit of a daft title, but my whilst trying to come up with a post title my mind went from the Jolly Green Giant to a Jolly Green Grasshopper( everyone knows who the Jolly Green Giant is, right?). So Jolly Green Grasshopper it was! Not that I would know what a ... [ Read More ]
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth Moths are up there with spiders and locusts when it comes to my unease of them. My fear of spiders is totally irrational, but it's something that if I focus (and don't turn my back on it) I can overcome. My unease around moths, locusts and grasshoppers stems from their ... [ Read More ]
Little Green Bug
Little Green Bug Shield bugs have to be one of the cutest bugs around, don't you think? Some are quite green, almost fluorescent in colour and some are quite brown and dull. I'm not sure what determines the intensity of their colour. Maybe it's a gender thing like we see in other creatures or maybe ... [ Read More ]
Lagana & Kalamaki Beach- Through My Lensball
Lagana & Kalamaki Beach - Through My Lensball Last week I managed to have a day off midweek to spend with my sister and her family. Knowing they wouldn't be around early I took advantage and headed to the Lagana & Kalamaki beach with my lensball in hand (or pocket). It's something I've ... [ Read More ]
Navagio Beach
Navagio Beach Last weekend we made like tourists for a few hours. A childhood friend of my husband and his wife popped over for three days. Where did they come from? South Africa! It wasn't quite as mad as it sounds as they were in Portugal having a big family reunion and thought as they were over ... [ Read More ]
Blood Moon
Blood Moon I know the internet has been flooded with photos of the blood moon that happened on Friday night, but I couldn't, not share mine too. Last Friday evening I'd met up with friends for a quiet meal to mark a birthday. As we were leaving the restaurant the lunar eclipse was ... [ Read More ]
Shooting From The Hip
Shooting From The Hip At the moment niggly hips are preventing me from running so in a bid to maintain a certain level of fitness I've taken to walking around route from Lagana to Kalamaki and back down the beach. It's not far to walk, measuring just under 5km, but when early evening temperatures ... [ Read More ]
Burned Out Old Car
Burned Out Old Car During the week I'd been messing around with the monochrome setting on the camera and thought it would be fun to see if I could get a half decent photograph using the setting. Black and white photographs do have their appeal and some are quite stunning. When the right subject is ... [ Read More ]
Busy Bees
Busy Bees So I've made a new deal with the dogs. I'd originally promised them that their weekend walks in the hills would be a camera-free affair, no stopping and waiting whilst I fiddle and fart arse around with settings. It seems it was a promise I couldn't keep. Not when there is so much to ... [ Read More ]
Early Morning Light
Early Morning Light I love everything about mornings. The peace and quiet, broken only by the sound of the birds greeting a new day. There's also a feeling that I get that I don't get at any other time of day. It's very similar to the feeling I used to get when doing night feeds when the children ... [ Read More ]