Random Shots

2006-06-07T08:28:00.000+01:00

A gorgeous rose... look at the mix of colours- pink, orange, yellow!

Frosty the rose

2005-11-22T11:37:00.000Z

A frosted, frozen flower

Black-eyed Susans

2005-09-13T16:18:00.000+01:00

Orange in nature - habanero peppers

2005-08-20T20:31:00.000+01:00

Orange in nature - dont know the flower

2005-08-20T15:47:00.000+01:00

Orange in nature - African lilies

2005-08-16T21:27:00.000+01:00

Orange in nature - begonia

2005-08-15T18:07:00.000+01:00

Pushy

2005-08-15T10:24:00.000+01:00

2005-08-15T10:22:00.000+01:00

The glory of a sunflower

2005-08-14T23:05:00.000+01:00

2005-07-23T20:14:00.000+01:00

Beautiful black-and-white building from the 1700s

2005-07-21T21:56:00.000+01:00

The amazing headless swan... seen here with its not-so-amazing half-grown cygnet.

2005-07-18T19:38:00.000+01:00

Purple clematis against a sun-dappled wall

2005-07-18T19:37:00.000+01:00

Art against a Roman wall

2005-07-18T19:36:00.001+01:00

The magnificent organ (being played, if you look close) at the cathedral

2005-07-18T19:36:00.000+01:00

Chester cathedral, with its long spiky vertical lines and lovely ceiling

2005-07-18T19:35:00.000+01:00

Sky, wall, lamp

Strawberry red

2005-07-07T23:15:00.000+01:00

Red and white

2005-07-07T23:09:00.000+01:00

My weirdly shaped red rosebud

2005-07-07T23:08:00.001+01:00

White sparaxis with purple centre

2005-07-07T23:08:00.000+01:00

More lavender

2005-07-07T23:04:00.000+01:00

I like the look of the cement path as the background.

Sprig of lavender

2005-06-29T16:17:00.000+01:00

Pink dwarf sweetpea

2005-06-29T16:14:00.001+01:00

Yellow sparaxis

2005-06-29T16:14:00.000+01:00

My lily, thoroughly inspected

2005-06-27T17:40:00.000+01:00

My golden-yellow African lily

2005-06-27T17:39:00.000+01:00

Side view

2005-06-27T17:38:00.000+01:00

Back view

2005-06-27T17:37:00.000+01:00

Back view 2

2005-06-27T17:36:00.000+01:00

Pollen

2005-06-26T13:46:00.000+01:00

Looks like I'm not the only one attracted to the gorgeous scarlet colour...

2005-06-26T13:45:00.000+01:00

Macro of my poppy's centre - it was amazingly pretty when I went beyond the scarlet colour (which I love) and focused on the centre of the flower.

2005-06-26T13:44:00.000+01:00

Close-up

2005-06-26T13:43:00.002+01:00

First poppy of the season in my flowerpot garden!

2005-06-26T13:43:00.001+01:00

Lucky clover leaf, dew-fresh.

2005-06-26T13:43:00.000+01:00

Very very close-up of one of the flowers... I really liked the silvery-pink of the stamens (I hope that's the correct botanical term).

2005-06-26T13:42:00.001+01:00

Sparaxis - three on a stem

2005-06-26T13:42:00.000+01:00

Same thing, in B&W - doesnt this look better?

2005-06-26T13:41:00.001+01:00

I like the effect of the clouds here.

2005-06-26T13:41:00.000+01:00

English Bridge by night (around 11pm), when we cycled back home after a pub crawl.

2005-06-26T13:40:00.000+01:00

English Bridge by daylight, around 6pm, when we went cycling down the river path.

2005-06-26T13:39:00.000+01:00

Found this friendly fish on my lawn one fine Friday (anybody have a word for "lawn" beginning with "f"?) :) Fishy here belongs to the dog next door.

2005-06-20T22:10:00.000+01:00

Strange cloud formation? Nah... probably another jet trail - even if it seems to be vertical!

2005-06-20T21:30:00.000+01:00

Treetops at dusk

2005-06-20T21:29:00.000+01:00

My neighbour's roses

2005-06-20T21:27:00.000+01:00

A Sparaxis - again, I dont know if there is a common name for it. It's a bit ragged at the edges, this flower - but I decided to take a photo anyway.

2005-06-20T21:25:00.001+01:00

My gerbera, close-up. Hopefully I'll have a couple of other colours in the near future...

2005-06-20T21:25:00.000+01:00

My favourite daisy - the English Gerbera. They come in such glorious, rich colours... but this one is a pale orange - still beautiful, though.

2005-06-20T21:23:00.000+01:00

Talk about contrasts... the leisurely balloon and the jet trail left by an aeroplane.

2005-06-20T21:22:00.000+01:00

Caught a balloon sailing serenely in the dusk (around 9.30 pm, actually)

2005-06-17T12:50:00.001+01:00

Close-up of my weed flower

2005-06-17T12:50:00.000+01:00

Really tiny flowers - they were growing on weeds, so I dunno what they are called.

2005-06-17T12:49:00.000+01:00

Dont know the common name for this pretty flower, but the name on the seed packet said "Ranunculus". Rather ominous-sounding for such a small thing!

2005-06-17T12:48:00.000+01:00

My yellow rose bud in full bloom

2005-06-13T13:40:00.000+01:00

Another rosebud - a yellow one this time. It's gonna be just as fragrant. I dont see the point of growing roses just for their beauty - they ought to smell good too. Best of both worlds!

2005-06-13T13:39:00.000+01:00

My lucky clover flower again... perhaps the white door edges are too bright?

2005-06-13T13:38:00.000+01:00

My pink rose again.... getting bigger and bigger. And its fragrance is already heavenly!

2005-06-12T11:10:00.000+01:00

Buttercups by the river bank

2005-06-09T17:44:00.001+01:00

My lucky clover plant grew a flower

2005-06-09T17:44:00.000+01:00

My rose, a day on

2005-06-07T21:33:00.000+01:00

Lavender-coloured flowers of the garlic-chive herb

2005-06-07T21:32:00.001+01:00

Just liked this one

2005-06-07T21:32:00.000+01:00

Same rosebud

2005-06-07T21:31:00.000+01:00

My beautiful rose bud... first one of the summer!

2005-06-06T16:38:00.000+01:00

A very green ear of wheat.

2005-05-25T15:40:00.000+01:00

Pink flower with white markings... it's called a Pink Peppermint, though the plant is not really mint at all.

2005-05-25T15:39:00.000+01:00

One single rhodo... I do like that pinky-purple colour...

2005-05-25T15:37:00.001+01:00

Thought I'd try it in black and white this time,. seeing as it's a white flower to start with...

2005-05-25T15:37:00.000+01:00

Breakfast (I'm being extra specially virtuous)...

2005-05-25T15:36:00.001+01:00

More weeds - little daisies, one of my favourite little flowers.

2005-05-25T15:36:00.000+01:00

Cluster of rhododendrons

2005-05-25T15:35:00.001+01:00

Isnt this little flower beautifully yellow against all the green grass? And they call it a weed!

2005-05-25T15:35:00.000+01:00

Ahhh... my first potential strawberry of the season. Cant wait for the little green nub to grow into a succulent scarlet strawberry. May it have many siblings in the meantime!

Field of gold...

2005-05-11T22:08:00.000+01:00

A rapeseed field, golden in the sun - and golden in the shade too, actually.

Gnarled old tree trunk

2005-05-09T22:02:00.000+01:00

It's got big iron chains wound around it, probably to stop bits falling off onto people's heads. I'm glad nobody's thought of destroying the trunk... because the tree as such is still viable! Still green and growing leaves.

Pffffff...

2005-05-09T22:00:00.000+01:00

Puffball dandelion, just before I blew all the little fuzzy flying bits away.

Nameless blue flowers

2005-05-09T21:59:00.000+01:00

Tiny blue flowers magnified hugely... pretty things!

Pretty in pink

2005-05-09T21:58:00.000+01:00

Rhododendrons

Mossy tree - part 2

2005-05-09T21:56:00.001+01:00

Interesting mossy tree trunk again - the sun went behind clouds, so no dappled effect.

Mossy tree trunk

2005-05-09T21:56:00.000+01:00

Interesting mossy tree trunk, in dappled shade

Bug and flower

2005-05-09T21:55:00.000+01:00

Fading pink flower and an emerald green bug that's gone in head-first into the centre of the flower.

Bluebells?

2005-05-09T21:54:00.000+01:00

Some bluebells, slightly out of focus because the wind kept blowing them about! (They might be some other flower in reality... but they're bluish and bell-shaped, so to me they ARE bluebells.)

Buttercups

2005-05-09T21:52:00.000+01:00

Two of them, little 'uns

Here birdie birdie birdie!

2005-04-27T16:32:00.000+01:00

A quail that hung around for crumbs outside the kitchen window.

Sheepish stare

2005-04-27T16:22:00.001+01:00

The lamb with mummy-ewe, who's giving me a rather baleful, cold-eyed stare. Hey, I only wanted a photo!

Lamb (alive and without the mint sauce)

2005-04-27T16:22:00.000+01:00

The little lamb that was in a field outside our cottage - a rather weak little thing.

Rocks and roots

2005-04-27T16:21:00.001+01:00

Close-up... the stones among the roots are really quite big rocks.

Uprooted

2005-04-27T16:21:00.000+01:00

Uprooted whole during a winter storm (I presume) - roots, stones and all!

Tree across the track

2005-04-27T16:20:00.000+01:00

Tree down! Totally blocking the forest track that leads to Truim Woods viewpoint. This is where we were forced to turn back.

Tree and drystone wall

2005-04-27T16:19:00.001+01:00

A bare tree (only now beginning to show new growth) and a stone wall - I liked both.

Valley View

2005-04-27T16:19:00.000+01:00

A nice fuzzy view of the valley from the memorial area.

Memorial for some reason

2005-04-27T16:18:00.000+01:00

A memorial to some Scots who died in South Africa (doesnt say why, how or when) - but it's got a great view of the plains below.

Ready to ride the ruts

2005-04-27T16:17:00.001+01:00

The man and the machine - just after entering the woodland path leading to Truim Woods.

Just me

2005-04-27T16:17:00.000+01:00

Me on a bench overlooking Truim Falls - it's a viewpoint during the circular walk.

Baby pine cone

2005-04-27T16:16:00.000+01:00

Close-up of a baby pine cone and bright green baby pine needles. The needles are wonderfully soft and cool when they're this young... the adult needles irritate and prickle my skin and make it itch.

Truim Falls from up high

2005-04-27T16:15:00.000+01:00

View of Truim Falls from high above

Rushing gushing stream

2005-04-27T16:14:00.001+01:00

Another view of Trium Falls

Foaming waters

2005-04-27T16:14:00.000+01:00

The rushing waters of Trium Falls

Bridge over the falls

2005-04-27T16:13:00.001+01:00

The bridge again, a closer shot taken from the rocks

Pete down by the stream

2005-04-27T16:13:00.000+01:00

Pete the intrepid rock-climber. I'm sh*t scared of heights (and depths).