2014 - 365 Project
153/365v2 Alyssum Purple
This Alyssum Purple lives in one of our hanging baskets in the garden – the flowers are tiny but abundant and colourful.
June 2, 2014 No Comments
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This Alyssum Purple lives in one of our hanging baskets in the garden – the flowers are tiny but abundant and colourful.
I took a very similar photograph to this earlier this year when there were no leaves on the trees. Interesting how there is a very defined gap around the middle tree. This was taken in West Wood just outside Thaxted. If you want to see common spotted orchids there are literally
Rats with good PR, as someone once described them to me. I actually like squirrels and there are plenty in Hatfield Forest at the moment. There are more shots of some of the wildlife in Hatfield Forest below.
So, yesterday I had a new bug (to me) to photograph, and today I have another one. Who knew there was such a thing as a “Tiger Crane Fly” (Nephrotoma flavescens)? Certainly not me, but here was one flapping around Dunmow this afternoon. He’s behind bars now like too many
I always enjoy finding strange bugs wherever I go. These are strange to me – probably people who pay attention to their surroundings won’t find these particularly strange…so today – the relatively commonplace and the definitely new (to me). New to me is this Rusty Tussock Moth Caterpillar ( Orgyia antiqua)…at least,
I think one of our cats, Elijah, needs to go on a diet if today’s photograph is anything to go by. He was out looking at the birds in the back garden…he knows it’s futile going after them…he completely embarrassed himself by failing to jump into the bath the other
Not a new idea – indeed I tried this shot on my first 365 but it didn’t work out then, but it has been raining all day so I thought I’d give it another go. I don’t know about you – but I have about 5 orphaned socks in my
as we tend to do, we had a good walk around Rowney Woods today. I had my macro lens with me so was trying to find any creepy crawlies that were around when I came across this which was quite a surprise – the picture below shows what I saw
This (possibly fledgling) female blackbird appeared in our garden this morning. We didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to her until this afternoon when we realised she was still in residence and was not, apparently, capable of flying any distance. We then noticed that she had a damaged leg
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