They say a picture paints a thousand words and there have been some lovely photos on GN recently. I am a visual person and, especially at this time, pictures cheer me up. Autumn scenes, people's gardens, cake baking, craftwork, pets, clothes we fancy buying etc. Even stock images of Boris, royalty etc. What is the general feeling? Are they superfluous or do they add another dimension? Are we "allowed" to just drop them into a non photographic thread?
Alpacas have such lovely faces. My friend kept a couple - she sold them along with her house. She said that she thought she was too old to be chasing them round, trying to catch them to be sheared. (She was 90 at the time!)
PS I remember jingl once posted a photo of herself on a thread. It gave me quite a start as she was the spitting image of my grammar school headmistress!
I really liked that photo! I thought it was most unexpected , Jingl didn't look at all as I expected.
What a lovely photo that is Shhepandcattle. We used to have a poster who had a llama farm and she used to give us lovely updates of her life on the farm and her livestock. It sounded very much akin to your own experiences; rustic and tranquil.
Purplepixie-that’s a beautiful painting - I envy you your talent. Here’s my offering taken in 2015 during lambing. I’d been spraying numbers on the ewes and lambs and spotted this charming pair ! The ewe must have had a good sniff at the paint I’d sprayed on her precious baby and transferred the paint onto her nose. The strangest thing was it was actually Red Nose Day, something I hadn’t realised until I heard it on the radio later on in the day - strange but true ! It’s one of my most favourite photos and made the front cover of my yearly farm calendar that I make each Christmas for friends and family.