Lavender Blue Dilly Dilly

A single head of lavender that smells wonderful.

Lavender's Blue Dilly Dilly

Went off to the motor show at Wollaton Park this afternoon in the sunshine, and of course the clouds made an appearance, but thankfully no rain.

There were lots of cars, buses and other vehicles there, but I was particularly taken with this lovely lavender E-type Jag.

One of the two pieces of paper in the window record the history of the vehicle, while the other is a sales receipt for the car and show how much it costs in total; £4000 in 1973.

Buying a secondhand one today may cost you anywhere between £39,000 and £1/2 million.

Lunchtime Shooting

When I stepped out of the office at lunchtime today,  I thought that I had been transported to Dubai, it was that hot and sunny.

Alas I wasn't in Arabia, but the centre of Nottingham, and on the lookout for my next blog photo.

Unfortunately nothing really caught my eye, so I wandered back to work 'empty handed'. But then as I was walking through the grounds, I saw a butterfly, fluttering around one of the lavender bushes.

So I quickly whipped out my OMD, switched the lens to macro, and took a few photos. He certainly didn't stay very long on each of the flower heads, so I was actually lucky to get a fairly in focus shot. As the photo below clearly shows, they can certainly shift when they want to.