Pulmonaria 30/03/2014

A short promenade around the grounds this afternoon uncovered this first of the pulmonaria coming into flower.

No rain, a little modest sunshine and flowers coming into bloom, the year is looking somewhat better.

Out of the corner of my eye I spotted Jack sitting in one of Hilary's plant pots, presumably helping to hatch the daffodils therein. Hilly was not impressed.....

Spring is on the way 02/03/2014

The sudden appearance of small clumps of beautiful crocus are heralding the arrival of spring. Sometime!

My Various Veins 02/03/2014

This time of year the leaves on the brambles and etc down beside the burn are still full of colour. Some quite autumnal but others this curious blue/green hue.

Autumn Oak Leaves 11/11/2013

On The Move (again!)

You can now find me here http://www.jonstorey.com/

 

See you there.

Jon

The Walk on The Tyne Was all Mine........(and Hilary and Jack!)

Another lovely afternoon, Hilary and I went for a short walk beside The River Tyne in our village.

This monstrosity is a pumping station, part of the Kielder "Tree Rivers" project and pumps water from Kielder Water via the River Tyne over the hills into the River Wear and thereafter into the River Tees.

 



 

All the plants are springing into life, it was good to see swathes of Wood Anemone, such simple but beautiful flowers.



 

Hilary spotted a plant i'm not familiar with, a Butterburr



The Bird Cherry, Prunus avium.



 

Splendid!!

Spring.....

Well, we seemed to survive the promised frost last night, these narcissi have been out for a few days now and are just about the first thing to greet me as I let Jack out in the morning.