Tuesday 6 September 2011

ABC Wednesday and H is for....

ABC Wednesday and a few favourite H pics and thoughts to share - first one is H is for Harvest - lots of Hard work and Happy celebration of bringing the Harvest Home.





This lady was demonstrating the art of making a corn dolly - from times gone by at the working farm museum visited a few weeks back - earlier that day we watched as a television crew filmed the action for a local programme.




We were told that each county had a different style of corn dolly - - which represented the spirit of the corn




H is for Heather - and the Back to Purple - project - to get the local Stiperstones Hill back to its original habitat



Hebridean sheep - a robust sheep - graze the young saplings - which would soon return the hillsides back into wooded areas - smothering the heather and hillside plants




H is for Heron a long legged bird - seen at the local reserve - Venus Pool - on a recent visit




H is for Hang Glider soaring high over the Welsh Coast at Aberystwyth - watched recently on a day away




H is for helicopter - and Elton John leaving the Greenhouse arena at Shrewsbury after a momentous event





H is for Thomas Hardy - 1840 -1928 - British novelist and poet - novels include Tess of the D'urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd

How about for a finale we all join a Harmonious sing song during Happy Hour at the local Hostelry!

9 comments:

  1. I'll meet you in the hostelry,but my singing is less harmonious,more haphazard!
    Jane x

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  2. Hay, I mean, hey - Elton John was in our area a couple days ago.

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  3. I like all your choices for H very much. Happy H day!

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  4. Love the idea that the habitat is being restored back to the original natural plant life. Fields of heather would be heavenly to see.

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  5. That corn dolly looks very intricate. Have a 'Happy Hour at the local Hostelry' both of you xxx

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  6. Happy Hour sounds good for me! lol Love all your H's today.

    Leslie
    abcw team

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  7. That corn dolly is very pretty.

    My ABC is about the Humongous Coke in Disney.

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  8. What a wonderful Hodgepodge of H's! Great variety...loved them all. Thanks I really enjoyed this visit.

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  9. I'll join you for a Harmonious sing song at the local Hostelry any day! He,he.
    I too thought that Corn Dolly the best I'd seen. It was very well done.
    Re you comment on my blog about Cookham.
    They are a funny lot on the other side of the River. (Thames). This is what they get up to next -
    http://monkey-organ.blogspot.com/2010/09/thrills-and-spills-in-cookham.html
    Cheers.....Bernard

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