Tag: flowers
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Saturday Snapshot:Snake’s-head Fritillaries
It’s a long time since I did any Saturday Snapshots, but I thought I’d start again, so here are my photos of snake’s-head fritillaries, taken at the beginning of May. They are the strangest flowers I have ever seen – that chequerboard pattern on the purple petals is amazing. There were a few white ones, which had…
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Poems for Spring
Every year, some time in February or March, depending on the vagaries of the English weather, there comes a sunny day when I walk through the Castle Grounds and smell flowery perfume on a warm breeze, and every year I think ‘how wonderful, spring is on the way’. Doubtlessly there’s a very logical explanation, because…
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Saturday Flowers!
I know it is Sunday, and I should not have a Saturday Snapshot, but in some parts of the globe (like American Samoa and Hawaii) I believe it is still yesterday, which makes this post OK!Anyway, this week’s Snapshot is very brief (as well as being very late) because my mother is ill, and I am…
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Lupins, Radishes, and Triangular Dances
August has come, and has clothed the hills with golden lupins, and filled the grassy banks with harebells. The yellow fields of lupins are so gorgeous on cloudless days that I have neglected the forests lately and drive in the open, so that I may revel in their scent while feasting my eyes on their…
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Parisian Pictures Take Two!
This week’s Saturday Snapshots don’t need many words, because they’re a collection of some of my favourite views of Paris, taken over the last two or three years. My parents were very fond of the city, and planned to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary there, but sadly Dad died a few months before their special…
The Book Trunk 