Lyme Regis, Dorset - rust, rivets and rocks

 

Lyme Regis, Dorset - rusty reggie

Lyme Regis and all of the nearby “Jurassic coast” is a great place to see and find fossils and since the enormous land slips of 2013/2014 which uncovered the old town rubbish it has become a great place for rust too here is on example – there’ll be lots more over the coming days

Lyme Regis sailing club sign

 

lawn roller, Highgate cottage Monkton Wyld, Dorset

 i have recently returned from a holiday in Dorset in what must have been some of the best September weather ever.  I stayed in a self-catering property near Lyme Regis called the ‘Highgate Studio’ (see picture below) which i highly recommend; it can be booked through Lyme Bay Holidays (www.lymebayholidays.co.uk) property code V4667

highgate studio

Vestry House Museum - Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

Vestry House Museum - off the hook

Vestry House Museum - what a turn on

Vestry House Museum

Vestry House Museum - safely under lock and key, oh perhaps not

Vestry House Museum - the wheels of the uk industry (post Thatcher)

Vestry House Museum - rollers evenly (part of a mangle/wringer)

Vestry House Museum - timco bec

Vestry House Museum - take the north circular going south

Vestry House Museum - bills stick

 

i also came across this in Margate:

Vestry House Museum - the last post

my local museum ‘The Vestry House Museum’ presents the history of Waltham Forest through a variety of permanent displays and special exhibitions. it also offers a programme of community activities. one such event that happened recently, as an offshoot of the ‘E17 art trail’ was an exhibition of work by local artists and crafts people. as I have said before rust is not my only obsession – i also make sculptures and wood carvings, one  series of which is my ‘downfall of Icarus’ sculptures and i exhibited some of these along with some of my ‘garden sprites’ at the event

in the award-winning garden of the museum are a number of items on display which demonstrate the development of rust in Waltham Forest – it really doesn’t need saying but I photographed a lot of these and they appear over the next few days

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 7: sand serpent - shed skin

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 6: sand serpent

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 5: sand serpent

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 4: sand serpent

 

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 3: sand serpent

 

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 2: sand serpent

 

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex – found sculpture 1: sand serpent

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire: sculpture 'chaos' by Vincent Barré

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 7

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 6

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 5

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 4

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 3

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 - 2

 

Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire international garden festival 2014 -1

just returned from the annual ‘pilgrimage’ to the garden festival in the Loire, it can always be relied upon to generate new ideas about gardening – as well as photographs of rust