Apparently it’s spider season. One of the hazards of working in a wooden building at the bottom of the garden is that spiders like to share that building with you. I’m not the biggest fan of spiders, so I was very glad to spot this magpie taking care of one for me!
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Paul and I spent the weekend in Derbyshire, discussing wedding cake with my Aunt. Helen runs a lovely B&B in Hartington, so we had the perfect base to do some walking and sightseeing. Being the lambing season, what we saw most of were sheep!
Paul and I spent the morning wandering round Whiteknights Lake. I haven’t been there for a long time – probably not since I stopped working at the Library, and certainly not since I moved house about five years ago. It’s a perfect time of year – we saw lots of goslings, lots of baby coots [...]
Yesterday was a good day for my newly-planted vegetable garden (six large pots and a bag for potatoes!), but not such a good day for anyone who doesn’t like getting wet. You can just see a tiny raindrop bouncing off the back of this poor wet wood pigeon’s head. Bless him! I might add this [...]
Snapshot of my afternoon.
Posted in photos on Apr 23rd, 2009
This afternoon I walked to and from my acupuncture session, and took my little point-and-shoot camera with me. These are just a few little snapshots of my day. Spot the heron! (It’s worth clicking through to the larger versions of this one – you can see his face ever so clearly!) Terracotta elephant on [...]
Well, I asked for feedback on yesterday’s flower photos… and the feedback I received was “where are the birds?”. So, by popular demand, I now have some photos of birds for sale on Etsy!
We spent this morning at a garden centre buying three Trachelospermum jasminoides to grow up the back of the Shed. Hopefully our neighbour will prefer looking at Trachelospermum jasminoides than my Shed wall, although it might take a year or two before they’re tall enough to peek over the garden fence! We spent the afternoon mooching gently [...]
This afternoon we took the cameras for a walk around Dinton Pastures. I was only happy with a few photos of the fifty or so that I took, but it was Paul’s turn with the 300mm lens, so I played around with the 200mm. I lost quite a few pictures to the very shallow depth [...]
I had been planning to work on a new dress today, but a slight difficulty with an incredible shrinking lining swiftly followed by an unexpected power cut sadly put paid to those plans! While the power was out, I did something which I’ve been putting off for ages, and tackled the garden. I spent a [...]
Yesterday I had a sudden flurry of excitement when I realised that it was still light at 5:30, so I went for a wander around the lake with the camera. I took Paul’s new zoom lens (75-300mm), and had a play. The photos are here. Mostly the pictures are of Things Up Trees, including a tiny [...]