My weekend - a picspam

[amberdreams]

Pure self indulgence with my camera today - all the glorious autmum colour we are having is so wonderful, and we had sunshine all day too. The perfect combo. Plus we went to Bury St Edmunds for their mini Sci Fi Fair, which meant it was time to have a photo with the Tardis. Naturellement.
Lovely leaves!

For all my US Flisties - yup, American grey squirrels are everywhere.

Bury's Abbey is mostly ruins, but the gardens belong to English Heritage and are open to the public. As you can see, they are very pretty. Especially now we are having such a wonderful autumn. The abbey was dissolved in Henry VIII's reformation and bought for £412 in 1560 by John Eyre (wonder if his family moved to Yorkshire later!). So parts of the ruins were turned into houses. That apse is now someone's home. I wouldn't mind living there...

This tower is Norman (11-12th century). I like the round arches.

Now to the Sci Fi - but there's no escaping the history! Moyses Hall Museum is in a 13-14th building and the sci fi exhibition was side by side with the normal museum displays. I can't help but think it was ill-advised to put the Dalek (and cyberman) next to the gibbet cage. Don't want to give them any more ideas about how to exterminate humans, after all!

Geek time! Me and the Tardis - with my lovely Dean bag herminekurotowa made! NB it's Dean themed because those little dots are apples (for apple pie, right?)

Mal Reynolds' gun from Firefly! So shiny!

Star Trek communicator (with Leonard Nimoy's autograph)

It's official - I really am taller than an ewok.

I think it's safe to say that the Museum was well guarded this weekend.

We then raised our tone and had an all day veggie breakfast at Harriet's. Wonder what Dean would make of this?

And finally, a nice view of the houses that now occupy what was the west wing of the Abbey, with the Abbey church in the rear.

If anyone is really interested and wants to see more of Bury St Edmunds and the other sci fi memorabilia , all my photos are on Flickr HERE.

Comments

[sillie]

Very pretty pictures. <3

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

So much colour... so much pretty! Thanks

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

oh beautiful foliage shots!! and love the geeky ones too :-D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

We came, we saw, we geeked. *grin*

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures, we are having a lovely colourful autumn aren't we?

Thanks for sharing your weekend and knowledge too, looks like a great time was had by all.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ha ha sorry about the history dump :D
Yes this autumn is the most colourful I can remember for a while! Loving it.

[el1ie.livejournal.com]

Good grief don't apologise, I love to know what I'm looking at and would have gone through a search engine to find out anyway. You did a great service!

[expectative.livejournal.com]

Such amazing pictures! Seems like your weekend was really fun :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

It was busy but fun - cheers!

[reapertownusa.livejournal.com]

Your camera is making my camera jealous. Gorgeous shots capturing wonderful color, and I think you guys actually have more of our squirrels than we do here on the island. We have lots of Douglas squirrels, but those tubby grey fellows are rare here.

Harriet's and all the other buildings are so beautiful. Dean would be adorable there and at the museum—what a fun exhibition! And your bag really is fabulous.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I bought a new camera earlier this year and I am loving it more and more. It's a Panasonic GH4 - three quarter system so it's relatively lightweight compared to SLRs. I had the G1 before and loved that too, but this one is even better...

[ephermeralk.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos!!!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sleepypercy.livejournal.com]

You take such beautiful photos!! I should not be surprised with your artistic eye, but these are so lovely!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Aw thank you! It would have been hard to take a bad picture though - the lighting and colours were brilliant! No adjustments or fiddling with photoshop, this is all straight Mother Nature, :D

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

What absolutely amazing pictures, so gorgeous!!!

How awesome is that collection of sci-fi, my little heart did a nerdy jump :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

It brought out Paul's inner nerd too, because they had Sean Connery's James Bond gun, and weapons from Blade Runner.

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Oh WOW!!! Yeah, I'm with Paul, I'd have been clickety clacking pics left right and centre!