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

no, not a scene from the valley but an image of the stunning beauty of Monet's lily pond at Giverny which we visited on our recent trave...

hedge woundwort flowers through to October and is often this deep purple. At this time of year most flowers seem to be yellow or purple. Bel...

a sawfly (or hover fly ... more research required) eating the pollen off the anthers of some late flowering wild honeysuckle

it has been a bumper year for wild plums. These are growing in the hedgerow at the bottom of our garden. The plums are called damsons, possi...

Carletta came all the way from Maine to visit us. As you can see she was very easy to train, and we quickly had ourselves eating out of the ...