Here is a picture of the woods here. I dedicate this picture to all the young who will not see something like this again as a result of gun crime. Since the swallows left in October last, the little stable yard outside my studio (the old tack room) has been very quiet. Yes, a dozen […]
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White Violets ?
Marly, I am a total guesser though, yes I believe these are English native Violets. I will need to look more deeply though to find them. These sound as if they are North American. http://www.msuturfweeds.net/details/_/wild_violet_17/ http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/VioletW.htm http://www.prairiefrontier.com/pages/natvpics/nativee6.html
Riot of spring
Here very quickly are some pictures of spring today. Primroses, a white violet, hawthorn (blackthorn) and for Erik a Tulip!
Drax
Everyone who comes to visit us for the first time asks, as they arrive, “what is that great arch with the deer on it just up the road”? We call it Stag Gate. We live in an interesting part of England. The answer is Charlborough Park, The Drax estate. The Wikipedia entry is well worth […]
Dorset Port of Lyme Regis
I flew away t’ other day t’ visit ’nother Regis. Lyme ’t was; ‘nd here’s time t’was Pretty place Lyme Regis.
Something a little less somber
My favoirite Camellia
Spring
Wild Cherry Dorset 25th February 2007
Ode to a Toad
I know the foxes and crows clean up before day break by which time few people have seen our annual slaughter. Our love sick toads just can’t resist the approach to our village, hundreds died each year on rainy nights between January and March. There must have been 20 deaths there tonight. A sad Valentine.
American friends over here
Well it has been a beautifully sunny morning, that is until I went out with the camera to prove it for you. Still you can see it was at least brighter than yesterday. Here are two of my American friends. The first one above, is an immigrant squirrel not that popular over here; the other […]
Grey day
Oh so very very grey. Still very wet down by the River Piddle Dorset was once inhabited by the T Rex. Here is evidence of more recent activity! If you want to know where we are clik on the picture. Signs of spring More hopeful signs of spring cleaner than usual.
