last day of the month

where does the time go?

Tomorrow's the first day of August - already, surely my watch must be fast!

Here's the photo from my 2008 calender,




















Its my son, who in case you cant guess, is a piper.
This is a photo of him playing himself out from a wedding, last year.

who knows what image will be in July next year?
I don't guess I'd better start thinking about it soon, I'll need to put an order in for 2009 in the next wee while.

2009. Like I was saying where does the time go.

cheers

D

damn missed out on a wedding

Hi

I hate not being able to do a wedding, I got a chance to do one on the 15th, but I've got another job that day - not a wedding, so I'm gutted.

And as if to share my pain the sky was very thundery tonight.



















it'll be a better day tomorrow

cheers

d

updates to web

Hi

Well another quite day on holiday,
sitting in the sun,
getting burnt,
great.

but I did do a wee bit of work (ish)

I added some photos to my web site, sunsets.
Have a look, let me know what you think.

http://www.davidspiers.com/Landscape/2nd_landscape.html

cheers

d

Vive le Tour

SASTRE Carlos

EVANS Cadel

KOHL Bernhard

MENCHOV Denis

VANDEVELDE Christian

SCHLECK Frank

SANCHEZ Samuel

KIRCHEN Kim

VALVERDE Alejandro

VALJAVEC Tadej

EFIMKIN Vladimir

SCHLECK Andy

KREUZIGER Roman

CASAR Sandy

MOINARD Amaël

ASTARLOZA Mikel

SIUTSOU Konstantsin

BOTCHAROV Alexandre

FOFONOV Dmitriy

NIBALI Vincenzo

GOUBERT Stephane

TEN DAM Laurens

MONFORT Maxime

POPOVYCH Yaroslav

SCHUMACHER Stefan

SZMYD Sylvester

BRUSEGHIN Marzio

DESSEL Cyril

KNEES Christian

ARROYO David

AERTS Mario

FEDRIGO Pierrick

FOTHEN Markus

MOERENHOUT Koos

HINCAPIE George

CARRARA Matteo

VOIGT Jens

PINEAU Jérôme

GONZALO RAMIREZ Eduardo

LE MEVEL Christophe

LÖVKVIST Thomas

MONCOUTIE David

ZABEL Erik

VELO Marco

ZUBELDIA Haimar

GUSTOV Volodymir

HESJEDAL Ryder

AUGUSTYN John-Lee

TIRALONGO Paolo

MARTINEZ Egoi

LOPEZ GARCIA David

TXURRUKA Amets

DUQUE Leonardo

TSCHOPP Johann

DUPONT Hubert

GUTIERREZ José Ivan

ARVESEN Kurt-Asle

VELITS Peter

DI GREGORIO Rémy

TANKINK Bram

CHAVANEL Sylvain

SANCHEZ Luis-Leon

WEENING Pieter

VOGONDY Nicolas

CANCELLARA Fabian

PORTAL Nicolas

POZZATO Filippo

MILLAR David

POSTHUMA Joost

FREIRE Oscar

ELMIGER Martin

ARRIETA Jose Luis

VERDUGO Gorka

LE BOULANGER Yoann

LANG Sebastian

FISCHER Murilo Antoniobil

LOWE Trent

VAN DE WALLE Jurgen

GERRANS Simon

PAURIOL Rémi

LELAY David

VAUGRENARD Benoît

CIONI Dario

FROOME Christopher

LEQUATRE Geoffroy

LEFEVRE Laurent

VAN SUMMEREN Johan

CHEULA Gianpaolo

BARREDO Carlos

CLEMENT Stef

PEREZ Ruben

MARZANO Marco

SCHOLZ Ronny

BALLAN Alessandro

PATE Danny

TOSATTO Matteo

VOECKLER Thomas

ROSSELER Sébastien

HUSHOVD Thor

SCHRÖDER Björn

FLORENCIO Xavier

BONNET William

OROZ Juan José

ISASI Inaki

MÜLLER Martin

CIOLEK Gerald

HUNTER Robert

HANSEN Adam

O’GRADY Stuart

DEAN Julian

STEEGMANS Gert

GILBERT Philippe

WILLEMS Frederik

DUMOULIN Samuel

COYOT Arnaud

FÖRSTER Robert

BONO Matteo

SORENSEN Nicki

BRARD Florent

BURGHARDT Marcus

ROY Jérémy

MC EWEN Robbie

GRABSCH Ralf

HOSTE Leif

DE JONGH Steven

HAUSSLER Heinrich

RIGHI Daniele

KUSCHYNSKI Aleksandr

LANCASTER Brett Daniel

QUINZIATO Manuel

LANGEVELD Sebastian

GERARD Arnaud

FRISCHKORN William

MAASKANT Martijn

BICHOT Freddy

TERPSTRA Niki

RIBLON Christophe

ENGOULVENT Jimmy

AUGE Stéphane

MORI Massimiliano

GARCIA ACOSTA Vicente

SPRICK Matthieu

KRAUSS Sven

EISEL Bernhard

VANSEVENANT Wim

good end to a good week

Well that was a really great week.
Weather was wonderful.
I wasn't at work.
I had time to watch le tour,
I had time to get out on my bike,
I had time to get some photos.

Here's a photo of a nice sunset, just to finish off the week.




















I'm hoping for more of the same next week.

Fingers crossed.

D

burned out, in more ways than none...

OK here is my photo from the day,
sometimes you need to travel miles to get a good photo,
sometime you get a good photo on your doorstep.


This is a photo taking from my window, so I didn't even need to go to the doorstep.

Well I like it, but it may not match your definition of a good photo.
But that's OK.

I managed to sit in the garden for a couple of hours, reading a book and listening to music.
I think it may have been quite sunny, my legs, arms, face are, quite warm. But its a nice warm!

Then I went out for a wee run on my bike (push-bike that is) there aren't a lot of hills around here, but I cycled up past Carbery, its a bit of a hill, well its a while since I've done any real work on a bike. I decided to come home via Tranent, thinking the hill down home would round off a nice wee ride. The wind had other ideas, I had to peddle down hill! Gosh the wind was strong.

Now my legs are sore, but not as sore as they will be tomorrow. Must stop watching le Tour, gives me bad ideas

missed a day

well after only two days of posting, I've already missed a day, so much for a daily blog, maybe I could set a new idea and go for a monthly blog, or a yearly blog.
I'll post a couple of photos, once I know they're 1/2 decent.

In the meantime I've joined photojojo,
so far it looks quite good, have a look,
let me know what you think.
Looks like there will be lots of nice tips for photos.




and about my photo for the day, well OK, I'll be back soon.



well here we go,
this first image is of a statue in Newtongrange,

I like it, the statue that is, I'll get some details, and come back to this.









And here is the photo I was going to post yesterday, the bees obviously work better than I do!













I've got a couple of ideas for photos for tomorrow, but they do depend on getting some decent weather.

We'll see.

d

1st try

17 July 2008
well I've tried to resist, can't any longer.
Welcome to my blog.

and this is Max.

He lets us stay in his house.

What a good cat.

purr....