Three Hares Project

...Sort of started back last November, but after one thing and another more or less ground to a shuddering halt a few weeks later....

A search on Google Images for "Three Hares" turned up some new ones though, and blow me down two or three tattoos.....

Click on pictures to go to the original sources

Now I quite like the first and the last, but am not especially taken with the middle one....I still have a bit of hope for the one I was working on last year, maybe I ought to resurrect the project properly......?

Photos & The Blog Rambling On....

Newsome Clock

51.4 Gb. That's what I currently have in my Pictures folder, as well as several DVDs of backups.

I have enjoyed my photography since getting my first Kodak Ektra 32 camera when I was about 12 or 13, and several other makes and models since, most notably the Nikon I was loaned while working for the Valuation Office in Harrogate... but maybe the free photo-processing that went with the job was the spur to take hundreds of pictures of the Yorkshire dales while I went about re-valuing farms for Council Tax Appeals!

Bradford's Euroway Trading Estate at Sunset

My interest was re-awoken though when firstly Dad got me a little FashionCam digital camera at the same time as the PC, and then massively more so when Helen bought me the CoolPix 4100 for that Christmas.....Brilliant. Suddenly I could take hundreds, thousands even, of pictures and then (time-killer though it is) edit & play around with them to my heart's content.

Chris' Hat

The subsequent cameras that have come & gone, and now the Canon EOS 400D & Ixus 960IS have all piled the numbers on and filled CDs & DVDs as well as the hard drive....But who did I take them for? How should I catalogue them? Why keep them all? Why post some on the blog, rather than just show friends & family?

2E

The monumental task of keeping the amount of waste pictures down to a minimum is akin to painting the Forth Bridge, its a forever ongoing project.....but occasionally I turn up some that I'd forgotten about, an odd one that I like more on returning to it, or sometimes less.......

Gwyneth

I think I post them here in the sin of pride, at least I suspect that I'm quite proud of the majority that I post. A sort of vanity perhaps.... Some, like the racing ones, because there are definitely other people who will turn them up while searching for Skipton Races, or something, who might quite like one. Some, like the ones relating to a local man who wandered off in a confused state which gave rise to an enormous man-hunt, because I not only thought them (& the story) worthy of posting, but because I was pleased to be able to help, albeit in a pretty small way...But again, when it comes down to it, there was surely a touch of vanity about blogging about it?

Lottie the Foal

I don't really know, but I do know that I get some pleasure out of running the blog, from the comments you the readers occasionally make, and from visiting your blogs and so on in return. I have one or two ideas about streamlining the posts a bit, to cut out some of the chaff maybe, but to also cut down on the pictures to only those that, when I am going though my folders, make me think "Yes, that one works" or similar....

Soloman's Footwash

I will expand a bit on the new area I now live in in the course of time, but expect more beagles & hunting related stuff too, as well as the odd unavoidable random post. I know I've neglected the Kenya sister-blog, as well as the poetry one, but time has been short for one or two reasons, maybe when the nights start drawing in a bit I might pick them up again, who knows?

I see'd U!

As ever, click on the pictures for the 1024x768 version

Skipton Races 2009

On the subject of being up to date.....I realise this is a couple of months old now, but what with the move and chaos that goes with a major upheaval, and the fact that nobody is likely to use my blog as a News service, I didn't think it mattered too much.

I was going to post a link to some relevant website on the subject, but the most up to date one turned up by Google is from last year so maybe not....See, it's not just me....Here are my previous posts instead instead:

Link

Again as in the last couple of years, Sean & Chris Potter kindly invited me to go racing with them, and this time the weather was a lot kinder than last...I even came back with more money than I set off with after a reasonable (for a non-betting person like me) couple of wins!

There were huge crowds, and at least as far as I know no serious equine or human injuries, which of course is very good.



Being the host pack, of course Richard Lloyd had the Pendle Forest & Craven Harriers there......

I first met Richard back in the mid 1980s when he (then Rockwood Harriers Kennel Huntsman) occasionally used to come out with the Holme Valley Beagles. I was struck then by what a pleasant and genuine man he seemed, always ready with a word of encouragement for my novice beagling skills, and an occasional thoughtful insight into proceedings.

On one particular day I stood with him at the top of Issues Clough, on Black Hill/Holme Moss, and watched hounds stick to their line brilliantly. One particular hound, Sportsman, (later drafted to Jonathan Elliott) took his own line on a different White Hare, down the rocky sides of the clough to the stream in the bottom, at which point the Hare sat on a rock in the middle of the water, and turned to face him, as bold as brass. Being a pup, well, at least very young entry, Sportsman didn't know what to do and stood on the banking barking his head off while the hare just sat there! After a while he lost interest and turned back up hill to find the pack, and the hare simply trotted off up the opposite bank to safety.....One of those moments that stay with you!

Meanwhile, back on with the races....

I don't know who the runners & riders all are, so forgive me, but some action shots:

Jo Foster winning a few pounds for me! (Above)

On Duty: Richard's Whipper-in Kate watching the day

One of the Winners, sorry don't know who!

I thoroughly enjoyed my day, and managed this year to avoid the Irish-Gypsy in the beer tent, and his songs & tales...But I couldn't help missing the late Richard Hoyle whose presence or rather absence was almost tangible.

Firefox 3.5

I know, a few days behind everyone else, as ever.......but even though most of my themes don't seem to have been updated as yet, there are still some nice ones available already....

Gem

Now moved on to pastures new, but I'm always trying to keep my PC's folders relatively tidy, and realised that this one had slipped through the net at some point....

Presenting "Gem"

(Apologies, but I can't credit the soundtrack, I have no idea where it came from...)

Around the Yard

Have no idea why YouTube couldn't upload this, especially as Blogger did it straight away....but there you go. Just a quickie showing my new surroundings.....they might be beagle-less, but with Gwyn & the three boys as well as 33 horses (!) two cats and a large number of resident birds it's hardly urban. It might be 10 minutes out of Bradford centre, and 30 minutes from our kennels, but this little island of green-belt is home.

(Soundtrack is Orpheus by David Sylvian)