Every day I wake up to the sound of swallows twittering away outside my window – all perched on a line. This weekend I watched as mama swallow – I presume it was the mother – took turns feeding her fledglings on a wire just outside our kitchen window. I soon knew when this parent was about to swoop in as […]
I can’t quite believe it’s approaching mid-August and I’m hearing and reading the term late summer. And, of course, here in England one day it’s raining and the next sunshine or a mixture of both. Apparently George II in the 1730s described the British summer as “three fine days and a thunderstorm.” The same cliche can
August flowers and wildlife – my nature notes (part 1) Read More »
When you’re painting you mix red and yellow to make orange. Orange flowers always make me think of nature as an artist. Orange Begonia flowers. “Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” Wassily Kandinsky (Russian painter and art theorist) Crocosmia flowers. In my view a patio or a table or a garden border just seems happier
