Tag Archives: Spring

Alchemy

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Cherry

Wild exuberance In our manicured gardens Loveliness untamed

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Saving the best till last

It was long after what is technically classed as lunchtime before I got home. It had been a busy morning in spite of playing with the camera in my son’s garden. The day was sunny but windy… a perfect day … Continue reading

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Duck-fight at the OK Corral…

The road that runs through the Home Farm of Waddesdon Manor can be a bit of a pain. It bisects the fields, after half a mile or so and when you are out for a walk with the small dog, … Continue reading

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Shadows

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Urban spring

Over the past couple of weeks I have spent an awful lot of hours in the garden, weeding, planting and filling it with future delights. Not my garden, I hasten to add… mine is both very green and very untidy, … Continue reading

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Caught in a web

It was a dark and stormy night… Well, okay, actually it was a bright, sunny afternoon and all I really wanted to do was go out and play… take the dog and the camera, perhaps… look at the greenery and … Continue reading

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The longest days…

“There is a god…” My tormentor grinned ecstatically. Though quite why he feels the Good Lord should choose to manifest proof of His existence in the tortured screams of a perfectly good hobbit, I do not know. My son, however, … Continue reading

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A day of little things

It has been a beautiful spring day here, so the fact that the heating has died again didn’t become apparent until I dipped my toe in the nice, hot bath I had run and found it to be about as … Continue reading

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Stirring

Frost ferns creep across the glass; there is beauty in the cold of morning when breath mingles with the mist in intimate abandon and the sun wears a bridal veil blushing gold at her reflection. Across the rain-damp altar of … Continue reading

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