a dog's life in the Tamar valley, Cornwall, PL17
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
a few things we haven't seen locally 3
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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...
Monday, June 21, 2010
a few things we haven't seen locally 2
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and a bee orchid (ophrys apifera)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
colour in France 16
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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 ...
colour in France 15 egret and canal
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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 ...
colour in France 14 toadflax
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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...
colour in France 13 roses of Brittany
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a collection of beautiful roses grown in Gwernagog, St Goazac, Brittany by a man who knows his onions.
colour in France 12
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large bell flowers in a beautiful translucent blue
colour in France 11 pansies
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more pansies. The amazing capacity of this plant to produce colours has been harnessed to produce the enormous range of colours seen in the...
colour in France 10 pansies
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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...
colour in France 9 dragonflies
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and we are very glad that these dragonflies do not breathe fire on us, we are hot enough as it is.
colour in France 8 sheep's-bit
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some sort of sheep's bit showing the sepal tube with blue strap like petals and the minute delicate white stigma
colour in France 7 pinks
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aptly named pinks, but I am not sure which one
colour in France 6 burnet moths
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transparent (now why call them transparent?) spot burnet moths having a good time on yarrow
colour in France 5 short tailed ichneumon wasp
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everyone loves a good bug picture, I am just glad this short (!) tailed ichneumon wasp does not prey on dogs.
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colour in France 4 knapweed
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rayed knapweed
colour in France 3 fritillary
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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...
colour in France 2
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these images from the high meadows show why France was the home of impressionist painting.
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colour in France
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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 ...
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