Steps, ferns and fishing

Random shots for a Saturday morning. 

The new fancy steps are Clive`s pride and joy;

 the boys are beginning to add the artistic touches to the basic structure.

 The fern grows on the bank opposite the back door and is a nice patch of green before the leaves open on the trees.

 And fishing;      a great way to do nothing while pretending to do something.

Heavy water.....

.......or how to get wet with out swimming. The tide was too high for walking on the beach, so I could only look at the sea and watch the spray.

Sailing by........

.......and men at work in the garden.

 The ships out at sea rarely come within camera range but I do like to try and record the odd one.

 Most ships are at least ten miles out so not in photo distance, but there are quite a number each day.

                                                         The garden progresses and is now being set in concrete, so if we or they have got it wrong we have had it  ............ but I think they have got it right.

Texture.......

Weathered sand and burnt wood show a range of colours and patterns which are quite amazing.

 The effects of wind and rain in one case and fire in the other.

 I think the burnt wood would make a fine abstract wall hanging;  I could try copying it.

Nature study.......

This is the lesser black-backed gull sitting on a marker on the end of a groyne.  

                           The other photo is our answer to the great white shark. 

 Usually, the North Sea has only small examples of the shark family and this one is the lesser-spotted dogfish, all of 15........inches long and not noted for biting people.

Wood works.......

............. in the garden and on the beach. 

Here are the new steps in the garden [unfinished] to stop us falling down the bank into the stream.

 

And breakwaters on the beach to reduce the power of the waves.

Mundesley in February

Optimism is the name of the game.

Best foot forward and all that .......

And it`s a bit soggy on the beach.