Stolen colour

I was chatting to a friend recently who was saying she sometimes wanted to photograph people's gardens and didn't know whether she should. Me... I have no such qualms! If it looks as though it would make a nice photo and I don't have to trespass to take it, my camera or phone comes out. Stolen colour, perhaps. 

These two pictures were taken on a small housing estate bordering Hirst Woods on the western edge of Saltaire. The estate was built, I think, in the 1930s, as 'council housing' though many of the properties are now in private hands. The houses have quite sizeable gardens. Perhaps inevitably, in what has been a relatively deprived area over the years, some of them are just a mass of weeds or have been covered over with gravel or paving slabs. There are clearly some keen gardeners in the area though and some of the gardens are a riot of colour and lush planting.