panopticphotography: March 2014

Mucking In

Spent Saturday morning shifting a couple of tons of manure for Plasnewydd Community Garden. I did most of the work while the others were messing about flinging stuff, leaning on shovels and making work-avoidance phone calls. The garden is looking great.

The garden is in Shelley Gardens in Roath round the back of the Poets Corner Pub on City Road and is open Saturday mornings 10am - 2pm and Wednesday evenings from 5pm.

Anyone can lend a hand or just sit in the sunshine and garden by proxy. You can help yourself to the produce too. Looks like it's going to be a bumper season going by the height of the manure pile.

It's a good laugh and you meet some nice folk, call in if you're passing.

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In Loving Memory

I visited mam and dad's grave for the first time in 13 years last August and then had a wander around looking at others' in the late afternoon sunshine. I was taken with how the cemetery had changed, how much more colourful, decorated and personalised the nearby graves had become. I found myself making up bits of stories of people's lives just from what had been placed on the graves. Last Boxing Day I returned with my camera in the late afternoon sunshine.

I thought 'In loving memory' would be a work in progress but I have a feeling it will take years if ever to complete, so for now . . this is it.