Wren

It was end of July, Lammas-tide had come, and the hay and the corn harvests were being gathered in all around the little hamlet. Despite her nerves and delicate constitution, Mouse wanted desperately to be part of it all, part of the great collective dance of scythe and fork, so Bear's Sisters laid blankets at the edge of the field, under the shade of an apple tree. As the hamlet folk worked, she sat and watched, looking after the precious vittles – the pasties and seed-cakes and bread and cheese, and the cool flasks of buttermilk and stone bottles and jars of ginger beer and cider. After the laughter and chatter of luncheon, she fell asleep, curled up by the yellow fleabane and the silver mugwort. Above, a stately buzzard circled in the cloudless sky, an old friend of Old Fox and no harm to Mouse. The Bears and hamlet folk waved to him and his wings dipped gold and rust in the heavy, still air.

Crocosmia aurea , las semillas de esta planta suelen ser ingeridas por las aves, mientras que sus bulbos son parte de la dieta de cerdos salvajes. En la medicina tradicional, esta planta se utiliza para curar la disentería .

Abutilon megapotamicum , es una planta ornamental en jardines subtropicales

Platycodon grandiflorus , la raíz de esta especie se utiliza intensamente en Asia como antiinflamatorio en el tratamiento de toses y resfriados, Las yemas se hinchan en forma de globos antes de su apertura, de ahí el nombre en inglés de " Balloon Flower "

Euphorbia milii , arbusto procedente de Madagascar, que se desarrolla abundantemente en barrancos, laderas y terrazas a media sombra ya pleno sol principalmente . De uso ornamental, su nombre común hace alusión a la corona de espinas que se impuso a Jesucristo antes de su ejecución.

Esta mañana he estado en mi finca y he fotografiado éstas flores que están en su plena floración - Si picáis sobre ALT, veréis su nombre científico y sus principales características
Monforte de Lemos. Lugo
#flowers #garden #flores #jardín #bloemen #tuin

The small grave of a young girl with a simple cross on top

My sons & I lay flowers on the graves of my parents, Grandparents & Great Grandparents when in Wales

Afterwards we always search the cemetery for the younger residents & save a flower for them

This is Emma Mary Brandling who fell asleep at the age of seven weeks in 1835

The most exciting thing EVER!!! I check our garden web cam regularly for hedgehogs (at least 5 different individuals visit our feeding station) but never in my wildest dreams did I expect to see a FOX CUB!

Not the best footage, but isn't he/she GORGEOUS?! 🦊 #FoxOfTheDay #fox #nature #wildlife

A raven stands on top of a stone wall its bill open, its cronking. The sky is silver the dark stones have lichen on them this adds some yellow areas

First bird of the day, a Raven cronking outside my open bedroom window. Here’s one I painted on a cradled gesso panel with a silver leaf sky

Such beautiful wild treasures. Sending much love. x

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, on a richly overgown path by an old stone wall.

“When you truly understand one thing - a hawk, a juniper tree, a rock - you will begin to understand everything.” - Ellen Meloy (from Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild)

wet, wet, wetter
How it started v how it finished....
#ukbirds

The Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) is a small wader that breeds on the shores of saline lakes, lagoons, and coasts, inhabiting sand dunes, marshes, semi-arid deserts, and tundra.

Chorlitejo patinegro
Píllara das dunas
Kentish plover
Strandplevier
( Anarhynchus alexandrinus )
#birds🪶 #aves #nature #naturaleza #Toledo

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

My mental health was 1/10 yday-was struggling to hold on.
If my photos or posts about mental health have ever lifted you,could you maybe like this post? I know it seems needy but I'm trying to change the narrative in my head-find some value in myself. If I've helped someone I can hold on to that x

1/2 The no. of Chiffchaffs in the garden are decreasing now as this year's birds disperse.
'Chaffs are already heading down to the Channel coast on their migration route back to the Mediterranean region (see 2/2).
This bird is very familiar with this bathing spot & how a hinged stalk aids bathing.

The sweeper.
#woodland #woodlandphotography #nature #fuji

Mmmm... the water level is falling in the #Weedypond & that's to be expected.
The strangest thing is the rate at which the willow, hazel and blackthorn trees are shedding their leaves, in the drought conditions.
It looks more like October than the 15th of July.
#MoreRainPlease #ukwildlife

Lovely to hear from you.

A single flowerhead of a fine blue chicory flower. radiating petals, toothed ends to the petals

Chicory #wildflowers

My accessible garden … the housing association dumped loads of gravel doen so I got two horse mats from a local farmers shop. Despite there being no lawn wildlife thrives. #accessible #disability

Camping in what feels like heaven tonight. This is the happiest anyone can be. #Cribyn #BreconBeacons #Heaven

Three bright orange flowers with square edged petals, cluster together amidst the green.

Found in the wild tangle… Orange Hawkweed, Fox and Cubs.. ✨

Sand Martin Corner.

I see the Blackbirds are nesting again, mused the Greenfinch.
There are still lots of birds nest-building & feeding young in the gardens & hedges of Britain.
Leave the trimmers & strimmers in the shed until Maggie May wakes up in September.
It's a bumper year. Let's make it count.
#birds #nature 🌿

A well of times gone by. Today a memory.

By the Dorset Stour yesterday.

This Royal Navy issue pocket watch stopped working on the 6th June 1944

The workings damaged by shellfire. The glass screen broken

80 years later, at a cost way in excess of its material worth, a master watch repairer created magic

Family matter, and will be remembered

Two fledglings, possibly chiffchaff, sitting on a branch close together. Feet wrapped round the branch, yellow fledgling beaks pointing up

Fledglings in the garden

A hare in the wheat fields very early this morning 🐇

A hare in the wheat fields very early this morning 🐇

A fox lying in the seed heads. With a golden moon and lettering. The words are from Hafiz - I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

The words are from Hafiz - I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

To all those today who need to hear those words.
So many of us doubt ourselves. It's time to appreciate who we are. And our amazing friends and family members.

After supper, in the blue hour, Old Fox walked to the Sheep church up on the Downs, an old Chapel of Ease.
It was dark inside & deserted but for an elderly hare in the front pew. He was wiping tears away.
It's all so hard, he said, it’s all so hard.
I know, said Old Fox & went to sit with him.

A fluffy white down barn owl feather, light-toast coloured at the top, on a pillow.

Watching barn owls in the pearly midsummer night, & at least one spook-legged owlet, tiptoeing along an oak branch. Found a downy breast feather & tangled it into my hair. Forgot about, & slept in it & woke with it on my pillow, like I’d dreamt the whole thing, & an owl had flown into my bedroom.