Sunday 15th May 2016, 3.25pm (day 1,725)
The wild garlic is out, and I foraged a considerable amount this afternoon to turn into dinner and some preserves.
First crop of the year
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Flora/Fauna
In the woods (yoga tree)
Thursday 5th May 2016, 10.15am (day 1,715)
After a horribly cold spell — we had snow last Friday, though it didn’t get depicted on here (too depressing) — spring seems to have re-installed successfully. This is good news.
Why ‘yoga tree’? Something about the way this one is stretching its whole body and two arms up to salute the sun?
Out for a walk, Central London
Saturday 30th April 2016, 12.15pm (day 1,710)
This was an urban animal if ever I’ve seen one, striding out wholly purposefully this lunchtime along a busy street. I know the composition of this shot could be better — getting rid of the post behind the goose would have improved it for a start — but some shots you only really get one chance to capture.
Angry bird
Wednesday 20th April 2016, 9.25am (day 1,700)
“I ain’t no jackdaw. I ain’t got no stoopid hair in my beak. Want this bread? Come and get it, asshole.”
The rook doesn’t quite pull it off
Friday 15th April 2016, 7.50am (day 1,695)
This rook was looking quite butch in the viewfinder but he rather spoils it with the hair poking out of his beak. No, it’s not on my camera lens, or on your computer screen — it is indeed poking out of his beak.
ERRATUM: Apparently this is a jackdaw, not a rook — my mistake….
Intruder
Thursday 7th April 2016, 11.15am (day 1,687)
Another one of those days spent entirely working at home, with grey light, that will eventually do for this blog — one day I will get to the end and realise that there has simply been nothing to photograph. Still, despite some temptation to the contrary since the turn of the year, I remain here. Hope it doesn’t seem too desperate to stick a woodlouse on here — it’s not even that sharp a shot, because this kid could move, believe me. Usain Bolt standard, in relative terms.
New growth
Monday 4th April 2016, 5.55pm (day 1,684)
I went back to work today after 10 days off, not that this gave me any particularly new horizons photography-wise. Into the garden it is, then. All the plants that were deposited in the soil after being acquired from Barton Grange (and its urinals) two weeks ago seem to have sprouted, so that’s worth recording, if unexciting.
View over to Heptonstall
Sunday 27th March 2016, 12.40pm (day 1,676)
Easter Sunday, and my entry in the Cheesy Chocolate Box cover shot, 2016. The horses know.
Robin Redbreast
Sunday 13th March 2016, 11.55am (day 1,662)
Anybody who lives anywhere near me will know that we enjoyed a perfect spring day today — the sort where all of nature comes out to frolic. Look at the glint in this robin’s eye.
