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The sheep, bottom right, would like to know what he needs to be worried about with the “red sky in the morning, shepherds warning” rubbish! I haven’t tinkered (unusually) with the colours here, it’s what the camera produced, but I must admit I don’t recall the red colours being quite
Ratty 4 Us 0 We’ve (well, Debbie has) worked really hard to secure the garden against the rats and we think that they no longer live in our garden. All bird food had been removed and then we slowly reintroduced the hanging bird food having protected the poles to prevent
A really busy week got underway in a rather peaceful manner as I took my morning walk around Great Dunmow. I wasn’t expecting any fog but we had this really cool low level fog trapped in the little valley we have here and the cows were looking quite spooky as
Another day, another shot from the garden. The New England Aster came good again with a very busy honey bee collecting the pollen this afternoon. A relatively straight forward shot although you do have to watch out for the sparkling highlights on the bee and its wings. You can see
It poured this afternoon and I was standing at our back door watching it come down and noticed the spider’s web.
Sorry about this, but it’s the New England Aster again, but I think you’ll agree, it is sufficiently different, with the addition of the hoverfly, to those that have gone before. Indeed, I’d say it was more like a much earlier shot of my last flower muse the echinacea. We
This hoverfly was very keen to get as deep into the lavender as possible.
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.
I think this is a small purple and gold (Pyrausta aurata) moth also known as a Mint Moth…and we do have mint in the garden. I’m a bit unsure because, well, there’s not much purple on it and last time we had these in the garden they were quite purple.
There’s been a certain lack of energy and inspiration today (well, much of this week to be fair), so all you’re getting today is a moth with a rather vivid purple (plant pot) background 😉
