Sofia invited us to post images that convey a mood. During 2020, I shared a series of pictures for dreaming and was surprised, looking back, that the first and last had not featured. Perhaps they seemed impossibly far away from the reality of the time. Too inaccessible, too reflective.
I’m not going to describe how the mood of these strikes me, trusting to their own effect and leaving you to feel anything they stir.
For the Lens-Artists Challenge: Mood
Apologies to my regular blogging buddies whom I have sadly neglected over the last month. Our new internet provider has finally fixed us up.
It is obviously unwise to disconnect the old supplier before the new supplier takes over, but we had little choice as our equipment suddenly ceased working due to incompatibility after an upgrade at the old supplier’s end, and their quote to fix this was extortionate. Lessons learnt include it is perfectly possible, though inconvenient, to manage without internet and life is, in some ways, better. I am left uneasily wondering how to live a little more as if without internet while having easy access to it.
Susan Rushton 
Your outdoors are pretty.
Thank you!
The simplicity of the trees and their shadows certainly appeals.
That picture reminds me of being a student in Liverpool, studying on the lawn on a sunny day (though it was taken in Mississippi).
You’ve been missed! Welcome back to the “interwebs”. 😉😄😎🌸🤍
Thanks – it’s lovely to be back!
I love the first picture, it’s so pretty and makes me think of warm early summer days, open fields and picnics by a stream.
Picnics are best by a stream.
Lovely, each and every one! I’m especially drawn to the first photo, the one with the chair in a garden setting and the long-shadows on a carpet of green!
The long shadows are the moodiest for me.
flowers have a way of making things seem happy, to me anyway. The white chairs smothered with the love of flowers is so welcoming. The shadows of the large trees tells me. Rest the day has past. And sunrise….wake up… Yes…it is all how we interpret what we see. Glad you got your computer stuff figured out. That will put anyone in a mood.
You’re right, flowers and happiness do go together.
So beautiful, Susan – and the first one really went straight to my heart. Childhood memories of my grandmother’s garden. The backlit pink is glorious, is it a lily?
It’s a crinum (swamp lily). I’m glad to have brought back happy memories. Your grandmother must have had a lovely garden.
Thank you, Susan. And yes, she had. I still dream about it some nights. Walking there, picking raspberries, plums, strawberries, apples, and more. She worked hard all her life .
Beautiful moods, all of them. I especially like the soft colours in that last. 🤗💗
The last one was taken at Lindisfarne. My battery went flat immediately afterwards and the light was so good.
The first image is a stunner and it reminded me of your very gorgeous English gardens.
You’re right – it’s classically pretty, with the sprays of daisies and delphiniums.
Beautiful photos! Love how you approach the the mood theme. The first one is such a wonderful setting!
It’s almost too good to be true, isn’t it.
GREAT selections. 👏
Glad you liked them!
The dilemma of internet/no internet applies to all of us, I think. The images are lovely. Welcome back.
Thank you. The internet is all about balance, but it’s easier to resist when it isn’t working!