Life with cats, and other things…
0625/25th August 2025 . Retiring to their favourite perches, Dee Dee and Willow wrote Monday off, dismissing their customary morning walk saying they "just could not be bothered." It's a little grey but I'm not sure what has put them in such a funk. Our cats are creatures of habit and when their behaviour suddenly … Continue reading Dionondahowa Falls
9th August 2025 . Waiting in the car while Grant popped into our little local shop, I cast my eyes about to see what needed photographing and across the street I spied two trees laden with bright red fruit - crab apples. Very pretty but in my experience, not good to eat. What I have … Continue reading Simple
0630/6th August 2025 . Loveliness in its purest form. A simple morning glory. . It's how they seem to me. To me this is perfection. I have no need for intricate shapes or garish colours. . The delicacy of this flower, the subtlety of its colour - sensuous. Such pleasure can be gained from a … Continue reading Morning glory
6th August 2025 . It was an angry looking Sun that crested the horizon this morning. . In this appearance, it looks malevolent. As maybe it is. . Malevolence is a human concept and the Sun has no such emotion, but one can understand why ancient civilisations believed it was a God. . Such mornings … Continue reading The Daily Wail
2025/8th July 2025 . When visiting my maternal grandmother in Wiltshire, we drank Camp Coffee which I seem to recall I preferred to the kind we had at home. It had been decades since I even thought about it, but seeing chicory growing along the highways reminded me, so I obtained some but discovered I … Continue reading Captures
1047/29th June 2025 . Sun spots drifting across the fields drew me outside to the displeasure of juvenile starlings that fluttered off. . Little Red darted under a hedge. If I waited so as not to disturb the wildlife, I'd never go out. No matter which door we use, there's always some creature lurking. . … Continue reading Disturbing
22nd June 2025 . This seems like a good day for more groundhog pictures. This mother and baby provided a sweet sequence... . "Mum! Where you goin'? Don't leave me!" It soon caught up with her... ...and pushed her over. "There's no getting away!" "I hardly get a moment to myself!" . "Now listen!" "You're … Continue reading Groundhog day
14th June 2025 was decidedly damp. . Taking a detour back from the village produced little in the way of images but I have been struck lately by fields of attractive blue grass. Is it more lush this year? Have I just never noticed before? Is this the blue grass? How little I know about … Continue reading Telepathy
Please note that there are a couple of strange, unexplainable blank gaps as you scroll down. I would try to start over but have no confidence that it would solve the problem which in any case may not appear in the version that my readers see, so....apologies.... It was no doubt our unusually cool spring … Continue reading First sighting
0748/8th June 2025 . "Feed me!" . Set foot outside these days and your eardrums will be assaulted by the chatter of newly-fledged starlings that fill the trees and populate the grass. . "Have a nice berry, dear. " . Suddenly we can't keep up with the demand for suet. While doves merely look reproachful … Continue reading Sightings