Pleasing flower

[fuzzyedges]

[FUJI]

Honeysuckle!

My favourite flowering shrub, we have a large sweet smelling tangle of it hiding a bland garden fence and a shed, the heady perfume percolates the back garden, especially on these warm summer evenings.

By sheer coincidence I too have been taking pics of individual blossoms just lately, when looked at closely they are fascinating.

All this a bit poetic? ......Yes? ;-)

I was made to think, just how different we humans can be yesterday....... I Regularly pass by the open garage doors of a nieghbour, he is a real Petrol Head and is always restoring, vintage sports cars, invariably he is covered in oil, stinks of petrol, or, like yesterday, upside down, head by the pedals replacing a wiring loom, with pages of a Heynes Manual and tools scattered all over the floor all around him.

Likewise, my next door neighbour is an electrical engineer, who loves nothing better after a week maintaining large plant, than tiffling about with domestic appliance repairs in his cellar workshop.

I wonder, if this pair and others like them , even notice the natural world about them?

My idea of hell would be to, be mucking about with oil, petrol, electricity etc on a hot sunny day......for pleasure???

Explain in no more tham 1000 words please. ;-)

FUJI

[Korky]

That's got an almost abstract feel to it. Lovely!

 

Fooj - we do not want to hear about your large, sweet-smelling tangle. OK?

 

Korky

[ChrisLumix]

Fuji, as a former Triumph Herald owner (more than one), I can tell you that NOT getting 'down and dirty' was not an option. I did once actually rebuild an engine (Triumph 13/60) when the oil light came on too regularly for my comfort. I found the Haynes manual was the only thing that got me through it, but afterwards there was an enormous feeling of satisfaction! Luckily the downstairs flat had been empty for months so I had the space to do it in.

 

Yes, it was my one and only foray into the dark art of engine mechanics but I'm glad I actually did it. Now of course, I wish I'd had the gumption ... not to clean my hands with ... but to photograph each stage of the operation.