bauble

My wife, Kate, had to go in to work and I have spent the whole day with Jack. I was hoping to get a nice shot of him for today's blip, but he wasn't in the mood to be photographed.

Instead I started taking shots of colours and coloured things around the house. We have a number of glass baubles hung in the windows of the cottage which, in the light from todays sun, looked magnificent. I wish I could post more of them, but alas no.

The one I've chosen is a close up of a blown glass ball which never seemed to look as nice as it did today through my viewfinder. I was tempted to photoshop the image - having taken it on one of my cameras this time - but in the end, and after discarding the results of numerous photoshop efforts, I decided to load the raw image.

Behind the bauble, through the leaded panes, is our front garden and just left of centre - and slightly down - you can see the garden gate.

A bauble was originally a stick with a weight attached, used in weighting a child's toy, but especially the mock symbol of office carried by a court jester. This fool's bauble was a baton terminating in a figure of Folly with cap and bells, and sometimes having a bladder fastened to the other end. Subsequently it became a term for anything trivial or childishly folly.

More recently the term means a virtually worthless decorative object.