Tag: Natural History

  • It's Spring!

    The storm clouds are gathering, the ground is frozen solid, My Daughter has left college early, fleeing the snow that is falling already in Hereford and that has started falling here. And through it all, the Japanese Rose, Kerria, outside my studio window has decided to flower! Just one flower in a cold, frozen, barren…

  • Under my nose – Walking with my camera

    I sometimes lie in bed and stare out across the fields and golf course on the other side of the road. Somehow I’ve been either too busy or unable to get someone to come with me and walk around that view for eight years now. So today I walked up the hill to find my…

  • Mistletoe and Ice – Walking with my camera

    I had a meeting this afternoon which gave me the excuse to have a walk round Lower Lydbrook, a long, straggly village with a coal mining history, that meanders down from the Forest of Dean to the edge of the River Wye. I came across a fabulous bit of Ice. Cars had splashed water from…