I another post, I pondered on the variation you can find in some wildflowers, including red campion. In contrast, I’ve always been intrigued by the…
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Although I’ve been happily taking photos for many years and am pretty au fait with the technical side, it’s never too late to learn something…
“Oak before ash, in for a splash; ash before oak, in for a soak” Thus runs the old country saying, suggesting that if the ash…
Every year, I try to visit at least one beechwood at about this time, when the leaves are like fluttering scraps of lime green taffeta.…
On a dry and bright breezy day, I did this circular walk starting and finishing in the lovely village of Worth Matravers on the Isle…
The flowering of the blackthorn tree is commonly associated, in folklore, with a “blackthorn winter” – a sudden unseasonal spell of cold and wet or…
A few days of warm sunny weather, and spring is definitely here. Apart from the sunshine, the most joyous aspect is the birdsong. Skylarks have…
Spring weather is always a bit chancy, but I and a friend were lucky with a dry day for our walk. We parked near the…
What a difference a month makes – at the start of February, we were admiring a snowfall, and now at the end we’ve been basking…