lamping

this bus is not native but can be found at http://www.redkid.net/generator/bus/sign.php
but in my minds eye it is how I think I look to the average rabbit. Thanks to Queen Eliza 1.

berries 2

...and somehow these are the berries one might expect from a plant like lords and ladies, it just looks very vulgar; maybe I should call them dogberries.

berries

these exotic red berries are the fruit of the flowering nutmeg (qv) escaped into the wild at Old Mill. 

water rat

chasing the water boatmen, making huge ripples in their universe, water like liquid mercury.

nine months later

...if you look at the November archive pictures you will see this lovely scene in a very different light. Kit Hill in far background, and Stoke church to the left.

wall brown

this elusive butterfly will never keep still for long. The sun has just come out after a longish period of cloud and it was trying to warm up.