Rolling in the Rosemary

After a good few days of feeling terrible, the lurgy has lifted slightly - thank goodness.

It's been another very long working day of finalising a project - but we are so nearly there, and that will be a relief when it is over - the project has taken over four years to finish.  It makes sense that the last few days will be long ones, but once it's done there will be plenty to celebrate.  The neighbours have also been celebrating and are building a dartboard and pop-up hot tub in their garden, and will likely have a busy weekend celebrating the Bank Holiday.

Sleep was not my friend last night either. A long work day and a long night of little rest.  My little treat for the day was spending a good ten minutes in the garden, poking about, and taking my camera for a mooch around in the grass.  The crocosmia is too dry and has given up, but the rosemary is growing tall.  What once was a small cutting from my colleague's rosemary (that they grew from a cutting from Italy!) is now a very happy and well established herby garden friend.

I do really enjoy the complete oddness that the multiple exposure mode on my lovely little camera brings. It very kindly lets you see the layers in your composition as they build up. It's fun to me, to see snaps stacked, some things definite and some ghostly, and how the light and shade play around in the final image - what is lost, and what is found.

This one is a triple layer - some bright flowers in pots, the rough brick texture of the garden wall, and then some rosemary reaching tall, but taken from under the rosemary so the summer sky is in there too.

Yes, I was also rolling in the rosemary for that layer of the picture - now I have come inside to upload the blip with the laptop, I am rather rosemary-fragranced!