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I believe this is a Japanese Anemone (or a variant on that). I’ve been watching these growing in a couple of gardens I walk past on my morning walk and had it in my mind to photograph these when next I had my macro lens with me which I did
It’s a bit noisy this shot but I enjoyed the look this Moor Hen is giving the feather behind it…and being a little short on top myself I could relate.
It was a rather lovely morning today in Great Dunmow…I cursed my laziness as I had ditched the big camera with the macro lens and went out with my super wide lens on the lightweight Sony…it was a morning full of sparkling dew on spiders webs…never mind…next time maybe!
It’s almost 10 years to the day that I last visited this site. I had no idea it was that long ago until I looked up this shot on Flickr. In the intervening years there has been a little skatepark built under it and, as you will see, some pretty
A quick look back at my favourite tree on my morning walk.
The poppies on the roadside along my morning walk are still going strong – you can earlier shots of them here and here. Bearing in mind when I’ve seen Poppyfields in the past they haven’t lasted that long, I’ve been pretty impressed with the longevity of these.
I definitely attracted some attention from the local sheep as I passed by them on my morning walk today. It was nice of them to pose for their photographs though.
Yes, it’s that tree again, but I haven’t shared a picture of it for nearly 3 months, becasue it doesn’t look very good with leaves on it! The beauty of this tree are all the capillary like branches it has reaching to the sky – the leaves hide that too
My usual route on my morning walk and this scene had the addition of a large flock of sheep who have joined the usual bullocks that call this meadow home…along with a pair of grey heron the medow is starting to get quite crowded. Of course, there’s my favourite tree
We’ve had the second batch of ducklings appear over the last week or so (you can see a whole barrel load here). So here’s one of the new batch – there is now an awful load of waterfowl on Doctors Pond now, and the Mallard Ducks, Canadian Geese and Moorhens
