Lady with pink stripe hat, featuring a cloth flower, and wearing a dark purple long-sleeved T-shirt, also with white horizontal stripes, stands to the left of the picture. Behind her an ornamental tree, possibly Cherry, is laden with pink blossom, the colour accentuated by the black branches of the tree. A wooden barred fence stands behind the tree and beyond that grass and further planting in a village garden. Camera: iPhone 11 Pro

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies #EastCoastKin #Photography
#BlossomTime
#April #ForJanet
Pretty in Pink (1992)
My lovely wife posing in contemplative mood next to an ornamental tree (Cherry?) in full glorious blossom. Early April two years ago.

Beautiful photo Graham, so worthy of a Robin singing #ForJanet too.

A photograph of a robin. She’s standing on a branch going horizontally across the frame. A couple of smaller branches poke out at right angles, one right in front of the Robin. She’s got a tan abdomen, brown wings and a red-orange chest and face. She’s basically a round ball of floof standing on two stick figure legs. So cute and goofy at the same time.

Here’s a goofy Robin for small bird Saturday :)

#SmallBirdSaturday #Birds #Borb #Robins #ForJanet 🦉 📸

Love this Graham my friend! 🤩👍🏼

Take a trip back to the flower power psychedelia days of ‘67 when I bought this Incredible String Band album. The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion, including First Girl I Loved. I met her & married her in ‘68 #ForJanet #ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers

A multi-coloured album cover on top of a turntable. The record is titled The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion, which is picked out in psychedelic pink, green and yellow letters. The central photographs are of the Incredible String Band’s main men, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron, both looking suitably ‘60s hippyish against a leafy background. The record track titles are listed in black at the foot of the cover.

Pass the sunglasses and take a trip back to the flower power psychedelia days of 1967 when I bought this Incredible String Band album … The 5000 Spirits or The Layers of the Onion, including First Girl I Loved.
I met her and married her
in ‘68.
#ForJanet
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers #ECK

A European Robin with trademark orange/red breast and face plumage and beady little black eye has its beak opened unfeasibly wide as it sings out, no doubt warning other birds that this is his patch. His breast plumage, grey and slightly grubby below the colourful splash, is ruffled on a breezy day. The background of garden foliage is blurred out in close-up mode. Camera: iphone15 Pro

#BirdOfTheDay theme from joint host Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social
is #OpenBeak, birds with their beaks open, and I’m
thinking I must have a Roberto shot in my folder with his gob open. Let me look see. Hope I haven’t used this before.
#Robin
#ForJanet
#birds
#PhotographersOfBluesky #ECK

Great close-up of the very cute and inquisitive Robin #ForJanet in a beautiful and colourful setting, Graham. 😊

A very round looking Eurasian Robin, complete with trademark orange/red breast and face plumage plus grey undercarriage, perches on tiny legs on the rim of a blue, glazed terracotta planter. The background shows garden greenery and the red brick wall of a house plus the trunk of a climbing Hydrangea. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

A Robin is Not Just for Christmas. I couldn’t resist today’s alt theme #AllTheYearRound
from @alan678.bsky.social for #BirdOfTheDay
Yes it’s Roberto, no longer with us, but his Robin brethren are here … ever-present in our gardens.
#Robins
#ForJanet
#ColorADay
#BlueTue
#photography #ECK

Beautiful

#ForJanet

Impeccable Graham & this could be a painting! Stunning my friend ☺️👌🏼

Graham’s lovely wife leans from the open door of our VW campervan with the dramatic backdrop of a blue-tinged glacier mountain, Switzerland in ‘72

#BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday
#VWCampervans
#ForJanet #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky

My wife leans from our red VW campervan, parked in a roadside lay-by with the dramatic backdrop of a blue-tinged glacier, mountain and pale blue sky with drifting cloud in Switzerland. The picture was taken in 1972 when we gave up our jobs and drove that van through Europe and Scandinavia for most of the Spring and Summer months. I wish I could remember the location of this shot. I’d like to revisit and see where the glacier is now.

My lovely wife leans from the open door of our VW campervan with the dramatic backdrop of a blue-tinged glacier, mountain (Jungfrau?) and pale blue sky with drifting cloud in Switzerland. The year was 1972.

#BlueSkyMonday
#MountainMonday
#VWCampervans
#ForJanet #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky

Bless his heart ❤️ Great shot Graham ☺️👌🏼

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from Rob
@robcrank68.bsky.social
is #LookingAtMe, birds looking at you. The time Roberto definitely gave me the: “Is this all there is,” look.
#SmallBirdSaturday
#Robins
#ForJanet
#birds #ECK

A European Robin redbreast stands looking vaguely affronted on a green mossy low wall next to a few mealworms, looking directly at the photographer. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from Rob
@robcrank68.bsky.social
is #LookingAtMe, birds looking at you. The time Roberto definitely gave me the: “Is this all there is,” look.
#SmallBirdSaturday
#Robins
#ForJanet
#birds #ECK

Gone, but not forgotten #ForJanet, Graham. 🥰

Amazing photography Graham and Roberto splendid as always! 🤩👍🏼

I’ve gone back to one of my first meetings with Roberto in November when I was planting Tulip bulbs and he joined me. Those Tulips are almost ready to flower but he’s gone
#Robins #ForJanet #ECK #Photography #birdoftheday #grounded

A Eurasian Robin with trademark orange/red breast plumage and sharp black eye stands on thin legs in a black plastic trug full of soil being prepared for planting. The bird has its head cocked slightly to the left in a quizzical way. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

@alan678.bsky.social has chosen #grounded for his
#birdoftheday theme. I’ve gone back to one of my first meetings with Roberto in November when I was planting Tulip bulbs and he joined me. Those Tulips are almost ready to flower but he’s gone.
#Robins
#ForJanet
#ECK #Photography

Every part of this shot is gorgeous my friend, just beautiful 🤩❤️👌🏼

#ForJanet ❤️
#Memories
#Spring
#ColorADay #PinkMon
#ECK

My wife Janet, wearing a stripey mauve T-shirt, pink striped hat with cloth flower on the left, is smiling broadly at the camera. Behind her, in a grassy green border by a wooden fence, a blossom tree is full of bright pink blooms that zing in the sunshine.

“She was like springtime distilled into a person.” – Laini Taylor
My lovely wife Janet dressed in pink, a cloth bloom on her hat, a smile on her face and Spring at her shoulder in a village lane. How I will always remember her.
#ForJanet
#Memories
#Spring
#ColorADay #PinkMon
#ECK

A European Robin with its trademark orange/red breast plumage perched on a branch against a clear blue sky with its beak wide open in song. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme from
@alan678.bsky.social
is #SongBirds and the alternative #PerfectlyPerched. Luckily I saw this Robin yesterday at a garden, its red colours contrasting with a blue sky as it sang.
#Robin #ForJanet
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekJForJuxtaposition
#MobilePhotography
#ECK

Roberto is not just any Robin. I understand & while Alan's busy, Rob just words things differently. It's a beautiful photo. #ForJanet.

A European Robin, complete with trademark orange/red breast and face plumage, sits in profile, facing to the left, atop a wooden picket fence in front of a black wheelie bin. The bird’s soft grey chest feathers are dull by comparison with the chest and also the chestnut brown, folded wings and tail. Two cars are parked in drives in the background. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles, and the Alt theme is #Robins, any Robin will do, according to Rob. @robcrank68.bsky.social
Really? Any Robin? I don’t think so, Rob.
As far as I am concerned this must mean dear old Roberto - gone but not forgotten, so …
#ForJanet #Photography #ECK

Today’s themes are side profiles and robins. I’m reposting this robin from last week because he fits both themes :))

#BirdOfTheDay #ForJanet #Birds #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin

Osprey, staring at photographer. Head shot of bird of prey with white body, black back, black back of head finishing off in smaller black and brown lines kind of forming a mask around the yellow eyes.

Pine Warbler in a bird bath. Diminutive sized green back bird with yellow under, short beak. Photographed in mid splash, back feathers blurred from splish-splash bath action. Tiny black eyes and front of bird caught in sharper focus.

Small black and white bird on rot collar of a Florida Cherry tree. Warbler with black body and white stripes.

Red- Shouldered Hawk captured while observing photographer. Branches and leaves blurred in foreground of image, with the hawk being in sharper focus and softly lit from behind.

Entries for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Photogenic, birds you find photogenic, the Alt theme is #LightAndShade, bird captures with lighting contrast.

- Osprey
- Pine Warbler
- Black-And-White Warbler
- Red-Shouldered Hawk

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin
#ukbirding #ForJanet
#floridabirds

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Photogenic, birds you find photogenic, the Alt theme is #LightAndShade, bird captures with lighting contrast.
Here's a Nuthatch, Wren, Robin & Kingfisher all covering both themes.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #CanonR5mkii #ukbirding #ForJanet

This will be the best post l will repost today Graham, beautifully taken and wonderfully written my friend #Stunday #Hope #ForJanet ❤️

@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #photogenic birds you find to be photogenic. The alt is #LightAndShade bird captures with lighting contrast.
A #photogenic young Robin #birds #photography #EastCoastKin @rspb.bsky.social #nikon #Sigma #ForJanet #naturepicsuk

Time to share @javajanegallery.co.uk theme of #SmallBirdSaturday, where all the small birds get to shine.

Here's a Blue Tit, Robin ( #forJanet ), Long-tailed Tit & Wren at Clough Head Bird Hides.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #CanonPhotography #ukbirding #CanonR5mkii #birdphotography #BirdLife

That’s amazing Graham and l can’t even get close to any of our bird friends in the garden!! Fabulous photography my friend 😌👍🏼 #ForJanet ❤️

A European Robin stands on arched black iron stanchion holding bird feeders. The bird, seen in profile, facing to the right, is in full-throated song and its beak is wide open. The trademark orang/red breast and facial plumage shine out and the grey under feathering is dull by comparison. The wings and tail are soft brown in colour. The Robin clutches on to the bar with its claws. In the background, blurred out in close-up mode. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Alan @alan678.bsky.social said this morning that the
early bird catches the worm for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #ShoutItOut. I’m very late after a hectic day but I have an old shot of my lovely wife’s #Robin, Roberto, giving it some wellie. May have used it before.
#ForJanet #EastCoastKin

The interior of a railway carriage on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway en route from Porthmadog to Caernarfon in 2018 Janet and Patsy. The wood framed carriage has red brocade seats decorated with a diamond gold pattern. Each seat has a wooden table on which volunteers serve drinks and basic meals. Another carriage can be seen through an interconnecting door and other passengers are seen seated. It is raining and a green landscape can be seen through the windows of the carriage. The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR; Welsh: Rheilffordd Eryri) is a restored narrow-gauge railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It runs for a 25-mile route through some stunning scenery. At Porthmadog it connects with the Ffestiniog Railway. Camera: iPhone 5S

Another flashback. This time my lovely wife and our fox terrier Patsy are riding seemingly alone in a little carriage on a Welsh heritage railway in Snowdonia en route from Porthmadog to Caernarfon.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekIForInteriors
#ColorADay #RedWed #ForJanet
#EastCoastKin #MobilePhotography