Tag: Nature
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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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Peas, Bears, Birds and Stars…
Pea tendrils sweeping the air for lattices.(Pic from Anglia Farmer). Peas are clocky children who become spoony adults. Once they grow long-limbed, they start to teeter, because they possess more self than they can support. Then they grow madly wending tendrils to sweep the air for lattices – just as marionettes will grow marionette cords to…
The Book Trunk 