a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17

and a bee hawk moth on a clary (wild or meadow) of some sort The flower appears to have closed around a visiting hover fly in the bottom...

and a bee orchid (ophrys apifera)

and finally, a self portrait of the artist at work. Spot is happy to allow his photographer to have a day in the sun now that he is out of ...

the Brest Canal plus egret, a very white looking bird with black wing tips suggests it was a solitary cattle egret but no firm conclusion ...

purple toadflax growing by the wayside in Brittany. The upper two petals remind me of my own ears. Perhaps this plant should be renamed pur...

a collection of beautiful roses grown in Gwernagog, St Goazac, Brittany by a man who knows his onions.

large bell flowers in a beautiful translucent blue

more pansies. The amazing capacity of this plant to produce colours has been harnessed to produce the enormous range of colours seen in the...

violas (or wild pansies). Pansy is derived from the French pensée for thought, and the flower is a symbol of remembrance, and with love, bo...

and we are very glad that these dragonflies do not breathe fire on us, we are hot enough as it is.

some sort of sheep's bit showing the sepal tube with blue strap like petals and the minute delicate white stigma

aptly named pinks, but I am not sure which one

transparent (now why call them transparent?) spot burnet moths having a good time on yarrow

everyone loves a good bug picture, I am just glad this short (!) tailed ichneumon wasp does not prey on dogs.

rayed knapweed

Some sort of fritillary feeding on wild thyme. There are so many different species of fritillary that it is hard to identify them without ex...

these images from the high meadows show why France was the home of impressionist painting.

It might have been a dog's life for some these last two weeks but some of us were having a good time. These pictures illustrate what we ...