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

a queen wasp fast asleep in the wood pile (and saved from the flames) and a motley collection of harlequin ladybirds

Once again it has been exceptionally mild this autumn. Mushrooms are out in abundance and they provide a few flashes of vivid colour in...

Why? Why put rubbish neatly in a plastic bag and then chuck it out into the countryside?

breakfast   lunch

one doesn't have to try very hard around here to find a photograph.

We occasionally see a flash of brown and yellow through the trees and hedges in the garden as a sparrowhawk swoops down on a sparrow or g...