Colour for a grey day

Rain, rain, rain. This put an end to the sequence of estuary blips over the last few days, today everything was a uniform grey. Wifie had a suggestion for a different sort of blip to brighten up the day.

We travelled to Harrogate on the Mother-in-Law handover. We rendezvoused with Ed and Katy who brought Goosey from Bishop Wilton, she is coming on her holidays to Arnside for a week. No mother-in-law jokes here, I chose well. There's a view that daughters tend to turn into their mothers with time, so if you want to know how your potential spouse will turn out, take a good look at her mother. I followed this principle when I married Wifie, and am looking forward to further convergence. Goosey is the mother-in-law from Heaven.

So we stopped on the way back to blip this splash of colour to leaven the dullness of the weather. Anyone who has driven the A65 from Kirkby Lonsdale to Skipton in the last 10 years and more will recognise this house in Coniston Cold. Every year the owners exceed the previous year's show of bedding plants: there must be thousands of Begonias, Petunias, Pelargoniums and other summer bedding plants here. They have a special piping system to deliver water to the thirsty plants - or else they would spend all their time watering.

The house sits almost directly on the A65 and there is nowhere to stop outside, so the best we normally get is a fleeting view as we drive past. Wifie dropped me today in the village below, and I walked up the pavementless hill, dodging cars, to take this picture.

Thanks again to everyone who viewed and voted for yesterday's blip which meant I found my blip on the Spotlight page again. More exciting was that Friday's blip has made it on to the Rated pages. I must admit I considered quitting Blipfoto at this point while I was still winning, that may have been the high point of my blipping career.