December Rose

The 1st of December, the last rose in the garden.

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Will the last one to leave, please turn out the light.

Summers floral remnants
There is no doubt they days are getting shorter, which is, on the whole, a bit of a gloomy thought; although it resulted in an unexpected bonus the other morning, when I took Spud out at about 7am, I watched a pipistrelle bat swoop past, before popping neatly into a hole in the [...]

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Home Sweet Home

Well, I think I have squeezed all the juice I can out of the photos of our Devon holiday, till next year.
Back home summer has moved on, grass has gone to seed and late summer flowers bloom

the last few days have had that hint of autumn melancholy about them. Today’s  light has been vivid, [...]

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The Core of Eden

My favourite part of the Eden Project was the Core building, it is the arts, education and events hub. It’s design is based on the geometry that defines plant growth, or as it is known to its mates, phyllotaxis

I totally fell in love with ‘the seed’ a 70 ton sculpture  hewn from Cornish granite [...]

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Eden

I’ve mentioned before, how I wanted to visit the Eden Project; well at last, I made it.
I loved it, it’s stunning; if you are not aware of the Eden Project it is an educational trust, that in a nut shell is  all about, people, plants and the planet

it’s theatrical

fun

Vivid

visionary.

Green

Creative

Growing

All in a disused china clay pit, [...]

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Coast

The coast paths around Devon are stunning,

(from Gara Rock, National Trust)
I’d sort of stopped walking them, when they boys were smaller I found it far from relaxing, narrow paths and high cliffs set my nerves on edge.  
 
I walked from Mill Bay round to Gara Rock. Through the wood

Full of ferns [...]

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Cotton Grass

Up on the moors there has been a fabulous show of cotton grass this year (although it has now probably  been pummelled by the rain) I took these a couple of weeks ago.

It’s a very different scene than the last time I was up here

(A new bit of wire installed by BT  this [...]

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Red Rock

Is it lichens that give these lumps of rock its beautiful colours and patterns ?

I’d love to have a little read around the subject, I could start here
 

 
But I’m too busy to be here, I’ll be back in a while.

(The rock is by Kinder river)

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In the cool of the day

After a hot sticky night and with a very warm day (and week) forecast I took to the footpaths at 7:30 this morning, the visibility was very poor, I’m not sure if you could describe it as a heat haze, but I do know it was hot and humid, I pitied the poor commuters who [...]

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And Ships are Tossed at Sea*

 
It was very wet and windy yesterday, Mr Uhdd tells me it was blowing up to 43 knots off the coast of Wales, which sounds very unpleasant to me but then I can feel queasy when stood on a pontoon, let alone on board a yacht in rough seas; the latest info on seeing the [...]

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