webs

... and so last night we captured a holly bush, bound it in gossamer and waited for the sun to rise.

late flowering

and to add to an earlier post (see Comfrey below) here is a very fresh alkanet flowering in September.

nipplewort

OK, this isn't a very thrilling blog but my eye is always caught by Nature's little intricacies, all that hard work and design. A green finch flew into one of our windows yesterday, killing itself. What is so striking about birds when examined very closely, is the sheer beauty of the feathers, down to the smallest details. It is so hard to be a very strict Darwinian when one's heart yearns for a designer. Dogs are, if I may be FRANK for a moment, an example of the very best of the designer's handicraft.

mellow

crab apples (?) on Rowden lane; we are having the mists but the fruit is not mellow quite just yet.

autumn is coming

the lanes are just beginning to turn brown as autumn starts. Spot apologises for the lack of posts but his photographer has been indisposed recently.

comfrey

It has been a strange year. Comfrey normally flowers in May and June. A lot of plants seem to be flowering again or just lingering on, including magnolia, wisteria, rhododendrons, and clematis