#190 Lemon Drizzle cake

As a special treat for building a water butt tower I was allowed a lemon drizzle cake from the corner shop, mmmmm lemon drizzle cake.

#189 Chives

More importantly 'Chives in front of the Shed Door' ORANGE & PURPLE....

#188 Daisy

The next in my mini series of flowers, a series within a series.

#187 The Moon

We have just spent the evening with a double glazing sales lady, more tiring than you would expect! Completely unrelated to that is the moon.

#186 Bird box

I 'think' a blue tit has taken residence of this compact and bijou property.

#185 Birds

I liked the helicopter from the other day, it got me thinking about the skies, these are one of my neighbours pigeons. Over the coming days I Will be looking out for planes and hot air balloons, i nearly saw one crash in our old garden...

#184 The shadow of the house on next doors tree

Title says it all really.

#183 Petal

I insist on these being laid on the ground wherever I go.

#182 Helicopter

Extra security in the air over Cheltenham for the Olympic torch relay.

#181 Iris

These irises were growing in our old garden where the flowers where a peachy neutral colour, now a vibrant yellow! Wired eh?

#180 Peony

Wow! Big peony flowers in the garden, in the sun!

#179 Onion Rings

For one reason or another we had takeaway for dinner with these onion rings a naughty greasy side dish.

#178 Grill

This is the grill on the outside of our little pantry, keeping our dry goods nice and dry.

#177 Avocado

I love, love, love the green inside avocados. Did you know the human eye gains a greater appreciation of the colour green as it ages. When we are young we favour reds and oranges interesting eh? Or, that could be a load of old tosh!

#176 Drain cover

Or it might be the stop cock cover.....

#175 Cactus top

This is Debbie's cactus and we think it is over 30 years old, and yes I have had too pick out its spines from my hand! But I do have skin like a peaches!

#174 Spoon in Pan

Oh do please excuse me I nearly went to bed without doing today's daily picture. Eek! As I am a tad tired you will forgive both the lateness of the painting and leaving the washing up until tomorrow!

#173 A Fiver

This was lying on the table and I couldn't resist painting it, I don't think I have painted money during Dan Young daily yet!

#172 Vintage Car

We were fortunate enough to find ourselves in a vintage car convoy. This one was last in line before us and it looked great in the lush green Cotswold landscape, green on green! I hope we didn't spoil their vintage fun in our 2004 vintage Micra!

#171 Rape Field

Such a horrible word for such an uplifting crop.

#170 Light through Blinds

I love how the light shines through the blinds in our front room. It casts some great line shadows on things, here it is making a rather pleasing series of dashes on the chimney breast.

#169 Batter

I made the worst ever sponge cake today, half uncooked muffin and half scrambled eggs. No idea why. But I did like this ring of cake batter in the hob, with some flour at the bottom.

#168 Celery

I like how you use up the same amount of calories eating celery as you get out of it.

#167 Bricks

This is the back wall of my house just to the left of the back door.

#166 Pull Cord

I liked the tomato plant next to the shadow on the wall so much from yesterday I felt it needed a partner. This is the purple wall in the bedroom and our lovely turned wooden light switch pull thingy we got from Westonbirt arboretum a few years ago. Good background and a good shadow.

#165 Tomato Plant

This represents tomorrows job, to plant up the tomato plants.

#164 Kitchen Tiles

I realised I did have more tiled surfaces! Hopefully I will start to feel better soon and attempt some more challenging subjects! But these tiles have been a nice simple challenge for my reduced capacity..

#163 Bathroom Tiles

Last grid/tile picture, mostly because I have run out of tiled surfaces...

#162 More Tiles

Not sure why I'm obsessed with tiles recently, these are from the hearth. They are slate and are approx 10 cm square.

#161 Patio Blocks

A few years ago I spent a summer building a patio area outside the back door, here it is with weeds in it. Bah.

#160 Beechams Cold and Flu Capsules

We seem to be getting through a few of these just recently.