For the last few summers I have spent hours picking my way through the nettle patches on our land and finding a rich and varied stock of insects but this year they are barren. Perhaps the ducks who spend a lot of time grazing there have eaten them all?
This summer I will have to make do with a nettle leaf.......
Wednesday 31 August 2016
Friday 26 August 2016
Thursday 25 August 2016
Wednesday 24 August 2016
Saturday 20 August 2016
Sunset
We are quite blessed living here at the cottage for many reasons, not least of which is the regular, magnificent sunsets.....
Monday 15 August 2016
Sunday 14 August 2016
Dock Leaf
The time of year when leaves start to change colour is rapidly arriving. This dock leaf is one of the first.
Solanum tuberosum L.
Every year we have potatoes growing in the compost bays, none of them planted but growing from some which must have been waste from the kitchen years ago. No idea what it's companion is called, a hoverfly of some sort.
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