Planning a quiet Sunday after a busy few days…


Collograph print

Don’t be hasty- there is new life emerging.


So many plants and shrubs appear not to have survived our hard winter. I’ve been keeping a close eye in my little back yard and carefully trimming the dead leaves and brittle twigs- but to my joy some new growth is appearing in many of the planters. #SilentSunday CLERODENDRUM

Silent Sunday : In my new garden


One flower blooms undamaged by the insect infestation. Bittersweet new growth infested with insects one Clematis eaten before it bloomed. #Silent Sunday

A Belated Bright Squares Post


A Bright Moment every morning ...my garden means so much to me and I have enjoyed every day as it has evolved and matured and become a wildlife sanctuary of sorts. Recently returned from its debut in Letchworth Windows Project....my 100 images of my garden over the years, the thing that brightens my every morning …

and here I sit one year later


who would have thought as I gaze out into my garden, with a sense of déjà vu, the snowdrops are withering and hopeful daffodils smile back, bright and sunny.

Letchworth Windows March 2021


This exhibition has been made possible by a collaboration of Artists at The Forge Digswell Arts and supported by the Broadway Gallery as part of the Letchworth Culture Project.

July – Goodbye


Photo a day challenge July 31 I am still here so that is something to be grateful for and therefor not goodbye but onwards and onwards we go hopefully without too many spikes and even more hopefully a steady trend downwards as far as the pandemic is concerned. So, reasons to be cheerful: Family First....my …

View from the bottom to the TOP- Lofty heights!


The Alliums have reached lofty heights and now waiting for the Agapanthus to bloom, Square Perspectives Giant Alliums

Path- Photo a Day Prompt July 21


Up the Garden Path today look what I found- seemingly a daisy but yellow not the usual white with yellow centre, this is life at the moment and yearnings for places further afield are soon to be realised later in the year...with a planned visit to St Ives. During which was to be the Arts …

Goodbye June – June Photo a Day Challenge


As we say goodbye to June on this cool and cloudy day things are not really looking so bright

Wordless Wednesday: In My Garden this week


Wordless Wednesday : In My Garden This Week ; Sketchbook.

Magpie : Wordless Wednesday


at last I captured a couple of shots of Mr Magpie!

Waiting to burst : Silent Sunday


One Word Sunday : Drama

Wordless Wednesday: Birdwatching


A break from parenting I can balance here too.....

June photo a day challenge


Lazing on a sunny afternoon......welcome June June brings another rush of Birthdays in the family and of course Father's Day - normally a time of family gatherings and celebrations for the extended family. My eldest grand daughter will be eleven in a few days time, where have those years gone, so grown up, so adorable. …

Fairy Garden and Robins- Rare May 29 Photo a Day


Robins have a rare quality in that they are are fiercely territorial with other birds, but very tolerant with human presence.

Six Word Saturday Prompt May 23


Six Word Saturday: Here is my week- In Images.

Photo a Day Challenge May and Colours and Letters


POTD Delicate Beautiful Clematis battered by the wind: with the sun behind the petals - do I detect a hint of mint?

Macro Monday and FOTD


Sunshine's Macro Monday #42 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.... Cee's FOTD

Wordless Wednesday


My wordless Wednesday post

Cee’s B&W Challenge: Rust or Decay


Rust and Decay B&W Challenge

Square Top April 24: Stopes


Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and coal classification, and was the first female academic on the faculty of the University of Manchester.

Square Tops April 22 : Ice topped


SQUARE tops:Ice Topped

Square Tops April 20 : Tulipa Top Parrot


  The Tulipa Top Parrot is one of my favourite tulips and I'm hoping one of my bulbs growing in the garden could be just that...but I will have to wait and see...any day now! Also the hostas are growing fast and of course the alliums...so looking forward to those opening too. The bulbs were …

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