June at Dixon Hill

If you're still sore about the football result or the hayfever's getting you down, let a glimpse of June at Dixon Hill soothe and restore you.

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Baby Day

Must be the time of year.

Yesterday I saw a friend’s new-born babe for the first time; visited a pig about to give birth; got to cuddle a litter of adorable, three-day-old pups…..and had the joy of peering into a nest of pied wagtail chicks.

The nest had been made - typically - in a hole in a bank of earth. As I bent down, I saw five pairs of big eyes, staring back at me. But even as I leaned in to snap my first photograph, one of the chicks decided it was time to leave home and - quite literally - flew the nest…..darting by just inches from my nose. Never to return.

A few more hours, and they’ll all be gone. Part of the teeming tapestry of the moors.

Summer Cartwheels

Spent today at Harlow Carr - the Royal Horticultural Society's garden near Harrogate.

It was about as perfect a summer's outing as you could wish for.

Perfect enough to get this girl turning cartwheels, anyway.  Ungainly ones, it's true.  But cartwheels all the same...

Photos of me, cartwheeling, by Claire Ketteman

Well, Whad'Ya Know?

You do understand I’m a mere novice when it comes to this photography lark, don’t you?

I just discovered today that my camera can shoot in black and white. (That‘s the camera I‘ve had for a year.)

Who’d have guessed it?!

(Yes, I’m the sort who never reads the manual….)

Daddy's Girl

I’m a Daddy’s girl. Always have been; always will be.

My Dad and I share a love of liquorice, Jane Austen and The Messiah; of walks in the country and Sunday afternoon films.

He’s always been there for me; has always accepted me just as I am; and thinks as much of me as I do of him. Is it any wonder I feel ridiculously blessed?

What‘s more, not only is he the best Dad in the entire world (goes without saying); he’s also one of the most thoroughly decent men ever to walk this planet. And that’s a fact.

So…..Happy Father’s Day to my most beloved Dad. From his girl.