This pile of logs just seemed to make a pattern in the sun. But it is one of those photographs where the image when you get it home doesn't live up to expectations.
I have walked passed this concrete hut many times and I have never known its origins. The other day I came across a reference to it on Google Earth. Apparently, it is a Second World War Home Guard post.
This chap who looks rather like a Wild West pioneer, is, in fact, a Boer War soldier, He can be found on top of the Huddersfield War Memorial in Greenhead Park.
My favourite Aunt - now, sadly, long gone. Auntie Annie was outrageously funny, very kind, and - in some ways - so very, very sad. Yes, that is me next to her!
Amy and I went for our walk this morning and called in to visit the grave of Aunty R. I was almost as though Amy could sense her presence : no that is just me being silly.
Amy seemed to get remarkably friendly with this swan during our walk today. I grew suspicious when I found her looking up recipes on the Internet for Swan Pie.
This mill next to the Calder and Hebble Canal at Mirfield must be one of the few remaining mill buildings which hasn't been converted into up-market flats. Yet!
One of the things about canal towpath walking is that you lose track of where you are in relation to the more familiar markers of the main roads. This was somewhere near Mirfield. Beautiful.
Amy and I continued our canal walk this week. Reaching the end of the Huddersfield Broad Canal, we joined up with the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Cooper Bridge and headed for the North Sea.
The ability of dandelions to grow in the most unusual places is amazing. And they don't scrawl slogans on the wall complaining about Spanish bluebells. They just get on with life.
I don't know why, but I was put in mind of shell cases abandoned on a World War 1 battlefield when I came across this dump next to the canal towpath in Huddersfield. It's just a pity that the drinkers didn't fashion hand carved flower vases out of the remains.
This is a close-up of the mechanism featured in the photograph from a couple of days ago. What is amazing is to see it still in use. It must break a dozen health and safety regulations.