PICTURES SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

I've inherited two tags from Esther (one from Compostings and one from The Garden Faerie). And Rach at the Big Sofa has left one for me too.

They are each for six random facts - which makes eighteen and Esther has already posted six on her blog from one she got ages ago.

I've been taking a look around - there's a log jam. Thinking of six interesting facts is hard enough. (Eighteen.) Finding six (eighteen) people to pass the tag on to is . . . well, it's difficult.

So . . . I'm going to be very brave and start a new one. (I asked Esther about it and she says I can do whatever I like, she's too busy thinking about her missing underwear and evading the police to bother.)

So . . . it will be called 'The Esther Montgomery Prize' (my decision) 'For a Particular Picture' and the 'Prize' (which isn't really a 'prize') is to put Esther's little nosegay of blue flowers in your sidebar (or somewhere).

So . . . instead of finding eighteen interesting (boring if you are me) facts - I will start the ball rolling with eighteen memorable pictures.

(The nice thing about this is that I can delve back to pictures I keep looking at 'in my mind's eye'. They don't have to be current.)

Oh! I went onto another page without realising it so I've got 24. Never mind - a bonus!

Oh! Another 'Oh!' '. I've made a right hash up of this.

Having spent ages choosing the photos for the list - I can't make links to the right places (only to the blog or to a blown up picture). I'll contact the blog owners and ask if I can reproduce their pictures here (with links to their blogs). If they say 'yes', then the images will gradually appear.

Oh what a twit! Well, that's what comes of being new to blogging! Photos, Reflexions, Creations - Barbies on Washing Line - May 21st 2008

and trees with huge, exposed roots - June 4th 2008













And on the SAME DAY - Grow This - Roots Pushing Up Through the Ground June 4th 2008 !

Barbee's Blog - Her Garden in Spring - Blog Header for the first part of 2008









Victoria's Backyard - Her Sub-Tropical Garden - Blog Header







Gardening Tips and Ideas - The Naked Statue - May 16th 2008 Garden Hopping - Bowl of Roses - 13th June 2008

Blogging from Blackpitts - Wall - March 5th 2008

Clodhoppers - Inside her Greenhouse - 14th May 2008

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and The Green Man 10th June 2008 .






Red Dirt Ramblings - Alaskan Cedar - 17th April 2008

Typing on the Void - Rounders Match - 13th May 2008 . . . . (This isn't actually the picture I was thinking of even though it is of the rounders match. Pete R. Free who owns the blog has asked me to use this one instsead because the people who are in the one I was rembering haven't been asked about it being put here - though I suppose it is a memorable photo in the sense that it is on the slant and you can't see anything in it!)Earth, Wind and Water - Underwater Turtle - 15th May 2008

. An Artist's Garden - Best Clothes on Scarecrow -



Scurrying Toadstools - Photo by 'Bernard' First seen on My Daily Haiku - July 15th 2008

Green Desert - Washing Line - 17th April 2008 .

Garden Girl - Her Great Grandfather's Car Which he Turned into a Tractor! - March 24th 2008
My Aloe Garden - Aloe in Namibian Desert - March 15th 2008

Sunweeds Secret Garden - Her Land After a Bush Fire - March 19th 2008

Philip's Garden Blog - Barrows - 18th April 2008 Garden Monkey's Book Flange - 22nd June 2008 - Notice on Charity Shop Door

Veg Monkey and The Mrs - Raised Beds - 28th May 2008
Faire Garden - Thoughtful Grandson By Pond - 22nd April 2008
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Well, that should get things off to a good start but, I suggest, if any of these blog-owners would like to pass on the 'prize' perhaps choosing three 'Particular Pictures' would be a manageable number and, hopefully, the recipients will be pleased with the nosegay which is the Esther Montgomery Memorial 'Prize' For a Particularly Memorable Picture.