Jackie and I drove to Abbotsfield Garden in Bennett’s Lane, Burley, which was open under the National Gardens Scheme, where private gardens are open to the public. Each of these pictures is titled in the gallery. Jackie photographed me while I was going around with my camera and she was seated with cake at aContinue reading “To Feather The Nest”
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Spot The Partridge
CLICK ON ANY IMAGE IN A GROUP, INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF WHICH CAN BE VIEWED FULL SIZE BY SCROLLING DOWN AND CHECKING BOX AT BOTTOM RIGHT. SINGLE IMAGES CAN BE ENLARGED WITH A CLICK. While I lurked with a lens, Jackie continued, carefully, to cultivate the garden this morning. I had been struck by the trailContinue reading “Spot The Partridge”
Sticklebacks
CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE. REPEAT IF REQUIRED. A brief window of sunshine emerged in an otherwise wet and dull day, to enable me to cut the grass, do some dead-heading, and repel bramble invaders on the back drive. Otherwise I scanned a batch of colour slides from a trip to Richmond Park in MayContinue reading “Sticklebacks”
Spinners Garden
CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE. REPEAT IF NECESSARY This morning, after a brief time in our own garden where The Head Gardener has been replenishing and planting the beds either side of the Heligan Path; sunlight brightened the Star of India clematis on the Gothic Arch; and another example was suspended from the prunus pissardi aboveContinue reading “Spinners Garden”