The garden needs some colour. So many of my plants are just not quite ready to bloom. So I bought some pansies. Always reliable. Always colourful. Always fun!
Month: March 2019
Walking in the Rain
There’s been a lot of rain this week. Quite a lot of it fell on my day off, when I went for a walk by a river. I snatched some photos on my phone…
The roads were wet and the river was full. Brown, muddy water, moving much too quickly for my liking.
Mossy trees.
Bowed and broken branches.
Dark fields.
Spring is not here yet. Not here. Not quite.
Understated
Tulips
My favourite flowers.
I love all the colours in these.
Subtle Shades
Life goes on.
Subtly shaded fungus.
Growing on a log from a felled tree.
On a Brighter Day
Miniature World
Moss growing in a plant pot. The most ordinary thing in the world, you might think. You might even want get rid of it, to make the pot look tidier.
Please don’t! Not before you’ve had a careful look at it anyway.
Moss green. Green moss. With the sun shining on it. It’s beautiful, calming, cool and soothing.
If you look very closely at it, you could almost imagine yourself in a primeval forest.
A miniature world right there in your garden!
Wet Afternoon in the Peak District
I ventured out yesterday into the Peak District. It rained. And rained. So much so that I couldn’t risk using my camera. I took a few sneaky shots with my phone though!
Let Spring Begin!
There was a lot of small-bird activity in the garden yesterday. Here are two of the pictures I managed to take (through the window, I’m afraid, so not as sharp as I would have liked).
Pairs
Two pairs of mandarin ducks out for a late-afternoon paddle. The males seem to be guarding (hiding?) the females.
A closer look …
(They were careful to hide behind some branches!)
