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Jun 16 2026
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Carnations

Monday 15th June 2026, 11.20am (day 5,408)

Dianthus, 15/6/26

Although this is changing soon, right now there is still not much happening in life, so let me offer more nature. Neither of us at first had any idea of the identity of these flowers, growing in a pot outside the front window. “I don’t even water them,” says C. “They just come up each year.” Google Lens it is, then, which informs us we have healthy specimens of Dianthus caryophyllus (the ‘Pink Kisses’ cultivar) merrily sprouting just underneath the gas meter.

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Jun 15 2026
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Butterfly, hiding

Sunday 14th June 2026, 11.00am (day 5,407)

Butterfly part obscured, 14/6/26

Was happy enough to capture this one with quite a long zoom, in focus and in frame, and so am prepared to ignore the green scar of the leaf, behind which the butterfly seems to be trying to hide. Hey, at least we were all out in the woods — it has stopped raining, at least for now.

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Jun 14 2026
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Get off my water

Saturday 13th June 2026, 5.30pm (day 5,406)

Goose and duck, 13/6/26

The goose certainly gives the impression of being rather annoyed with the mallard: who, in turn, seems to be making a conscious effort to get out of the way of its bigger cousin. Not an easy one to get right thanks to all the sparkles on the Hebden Water — as a result it’s overlit — but it just about works.

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Jun 09 2026
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At work in the garden

Monday 8th June 2026, 5.35pm (day 5,401)

Bee on flower, 8/6/26

A somewhat unexpected spell of sunshine (of which June has so far seen very little) got both me and this little feller working up in the allotment for a while. It’s good to see the bees getting busy and I suppose the same is true of me as well.

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Jun 05 2026
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Leek sprouts, and grubby window

Thursday 4th June 2026, 5.05pm (day 5,397)

Leeks and grubby window, 4/6/26

It’s time these went into the garden, to be honest, but in the last few days the rain has come down and grubbing around in dirt is less appealing. A few days ago I noted there was not going to be much variety on here for a while, and so it has proven; a sixth post in the last seven from Hebden Bridge, and the third to have been taken in or from the house. You can tell it’s our place because of the grubby windows: and apparently they were cleaned on Monday.

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May 21 2026
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Nibbling on the cobbles

Wednesday 20th May 2026, 5.40pm (day 5,382)

Goose on marina, 20/5/26

I wonder how geese judge the quality of their food. Are some particular types of moss more tasty or succulent than others, for example? Are these particular cobbles, found beside the dry dock in Hebden Bridge, considered a premium dining establishment or more of an emergency back-up, like the take-away kebab at 3am moment?

This is the second Canada goose in a week — but there are a lot of them about. And, to be honest, it was either that or the second heavy black cloud in a week, ’cause there are still a lot of them about too, unfortunately. But it is supposed to be getting more springlike in the next few days.

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May 20 2026
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Crinkly rose

Tuesday 19th May 2026, 6.40pm (day 5,381)

Crinkly rose, 19/5/26

If this is a specific type of rose, I cannot identify it: Clare tried helping out by doing one of those ‘look for images that resemble this’ searches on Google and it just came up with the name of a company, proving how our informational sphere has been colonised (or something). Perhaps future Google image searches will find this picture and call this breed ‘Crinkly’ because that’s what it is. Which is why I took the shot: I like its crinkliness.

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May 18 2026
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Newt (and sister’s hands)

Sunday 17th May 2026, 2.25pm (day 5,379)

Exactly what species this is, no idea, but this little creature becomes the first specimen of the family Pleurodelinae — the newts — to appear on the blog. Sister Vicki was quite concerned that a heron had been munching on the inhabitants of her garden pond, but this one, at least, is OK so far.

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May 04 2026
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Ferns, or aliens

Sunday 3rd May 2026, 2.30pm (day 5,365)

Fern aliens, 3/5/26

In evolutionary terms ferns are much older than grasses, I believe. There is something primordial about them, a beauty to them as they uncurl, though also something disquieting too. I can quite picture one of these as the model for the creature that bursts out of Kane’s stomach in Alien, though of course that was the genius of H R Giger, who designed it, all based around these natural forms.

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Apr 27 2026
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Beetle and phone

Sunday 26th April 2026, 4.20pm (day 5,358)

Beetle and phone, 26/4/26

This beetle was very purposeful, and it’s a shame that there was no pot of gold (beetle equivalent) at the end of the table outside the pub, but I did help it down to the floor at that point. A test of the micro-focus on the camera, anyway, and its quite precise: the body is pretty much there, but the antennae, they are just that little bit blurred.

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