Red Canoe Enters
The bay of the Canal side
ready for paddles
Red Canoe Enters
Cutting through watery depths
Creating White Waves
Red Canoe Enters
Gliding past the floating buoys
in shades of orange
Red Canoe
Category Archives: Waterside
serene
Picture of Salford Quays, during one of its sunsets
taken with my Sony Xperia phone
all is calm on the waters surface
the fish are sleeping soundly below
and the geese have headed for bed till breakfast
all is quiet, all is calm
what you’d call serene
Another Winters Morning
As the mercury begins its annual retreat
the angler keeps a watch
the winter water, dark and cold
as silvery sources flicker
Hot air turning to almost fog
as chair it rests on sawn up logs
and line it sits, still, with great aplomb
as angler watches for a flicker
The float bobs away
in the ice cold soup
slight winds make it bob and loop
but not yet beyond its line it stoops
Ripples in water – give something away
as down in the depths – something does play
so sat angler waits – and beef tea he does pour
whilst listening to sports news on Radio four
But then there’s some action – could that be a Pike ?
the float swings round wildly – It’s the chain off a bike
and bubbles arising ? – the laughter of the fish
who’ve stopping being put on the wall or a dish
Things with the Letter D
#CFFC
in response to cees photography challenge
To start with, here’s a night time shot of the Holiday inn express on Salford’s Quayside, taken at Dusk by one of the Docks or as the people call them now basins 🙂
You could call this a 3D shot – as it was Dark as well !
The canal is pretty Deep, and joins up to the river irwell and mersey
This shot was taken during a family holiday to the Turkish Resort of Oludeniz. The beach was teaming with wildlife, maybe down to the hordes of fish that sat in the clear blue waters by the sand. The Ducks raised a smile as they waddled about in the sea.
Waiting
Canada Geese by Welland Lock, Salford Quays
waiting for the warden to arrive
eyes fixed on a patch of green
and a whole load of swans jumping the dinner queue
Signals are clear
dinner wont be long now
their feathered friends are moving….quickly
Emulating the greats
Salford , 30th August 2017
Sat by the great stretch of Ontario,
Aware of the place i was in
Lowry’s backyard, I
Found myself a bench facing
Out onto this great stretch of
Royal waterway, in sight of Rileys Flat and began to
Draw a scene in simple pencil – one the great man would appreciate
Bridge
Salford, 5th July 2017
in response to the photo challenge Bridge
It can be happily said that where i live, in Salford, you’re no more than five minutes away from a bridge of some sort.
The mass of water you see above is the Manchester Ship Canal , which flows towards the river mersey, and flows through the county of Greater Manchester
as a result – there’s a number of bridges that cross this expanse.
The one i cross most days is the Trafford Road Bridge, which i cross when going to sporting events on the other side of the county.
Occasionally, i’ll cross this bridge – the old dockside swing bridge – affectionately called “Detroit” as each of the docks is named after an american lake. Detroit passes over “Erie” Basin, a place once for ships – but now more akin to Open water swimming
Erie has an adjoining canal, called Mariners – and this too has a set of bridges to enable those living on the dockside to get about. This pic was taken at the point where the mouth of Erie flows into Mariners – which joins up with another set of Basins at the other side.
The newest of all the bridges on the quayside (and the last in the sequence on my journey to Imperial War Museum North) is the Millennium Bridge – built for the year 2000 and providing access across the waterway between the Lowry arts centre in Salford, and Imperial War Museum North – in Neighbouring Trafford
(Sports fans might have also noted – its used for quick access to Manchester United Football Club’s stadium – Old Trafford)
Afloat
Friday 14 April . As the quays duck race takes place today on the quays, I thought I’d reblog this
Salford 6th January 2017
In response to the daily post prompt Float
A tale of a Rubber Duck Race down the River Irwell in Salford, Lancashire.
There was pandemonium
at the rubber duck factory
as ten thousand streetwise ducks
waddled out of the city
They moved down the irwell
passing the boats
avoiding the locks
and staying afloat
Cows in the cowshed , watched somewhat bemused
and captains of small boats looked somewhat confused
as geese and their brethren all went amuck
following the trail of a little yellow duck
Led by their leaders, of United Red and City blue
passing under bridges and past an audience too
divided in a moment, by a Liverpool ferry
but meeting in middle – and still keeping merry
In the end after journey , down canal they all flocked
meeting at gateway at Mode Wheel Lock
and first one in net, out of water they rised
and…
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Pacific
artwork by inkdrop using painter essentials 5
#coloryourworld #blue # Pacificblue
Plenty of space down here to move
around the sunken sailing ships
collected on the sea floor. Fishing boats, go
in search of different treasure, shoals of
fresh fish 🐟 swimming about
in the shipwrecks and coves of the ocean whilst
crabs and lobsters try to avoid fishermens traps
Ten birds 🐦 spotted
Salford, 25th January 2017
in response to the daily prompt
i never realised my home city was such a magnet for birds, particularly waterfowl
pigeons are normally the first thing I’d spot,
sparrows usually nest in the small fir trees 🌲 In the front garden
today a blackbird said hello, hopping about from tree to tree with his distinctive yellow beak. He pecked around the hardened lawn looking for the odd worm 🐛 or caterpillar 🐛 for breakfast,
and at Christmas we were visited by a robin redbreast who hopped in and out of the house 🏡 on the look out for food 🥘
he enjoyed nibbling on the bits of bird seed cake 🎂 left on the windowsill
a family of song thrushes is now occupying the fir tree in the front garden, and I can’t wait for early spring to arrive, as new life hatches in front of its mum and dad high up in the trees 🌲
The colour soon returns in the spring as blue birds and canaries descend on the lawns , grasses and gardens in my hometown. It’s an ideal time for the birds 🐦 and is great for the flowers 🌺 as they get pollinated as the feathered friends go for the prize of their nectar.
living by a river and a ship 🚢 canal, I see plenty of seabirds around the water, Canada geese are most in abundance, and can be seen on the basin in packs going for the spoils left for the rest of the wildfowl. Tourists sandwiches can now be denoted as endangered due the curiousity of these brown feathered greedy guts! But I humour them all the same…as being chased by an irate mother goose is not what I call fun
alongside the geese are a family of swans. They have grown in number since I first saw them by the quayside. They’re relatively quiet, but this doesn’t stop the adolescent ones having sibling rivalry on the centenary pathway…common cause of the fights…scraps (by that I mean the bits of food 🥘 left by those sat by the waterside)
finally there are two different sea 🌊 birds 🐦 I see parked on the orange coloured buoys by the basin lock booms. The first, a heron is practically the veteran of the entire group, as he took up residence just after the waters were cleaned up, and he’s been living on the dock since then. It’s fun seeing him dive for sprats in the basin. The newest arrival, a black cormorant landed around the lock gates last summer…and he hasn’t left…I get the sense he likes the waters round my neck of the woods.
