more Spring favourites

 

the rae and exotic purple toothwort, spreading like wildfire in a wood near you

daffodils and dogs

poser

posy?

both types of daffodil are to be found growing on the banks of the Inny, but only the lower photo shows our native daffodil which is short and slender and has a simple trumpet

butterbur and three dogs

 

it's butterbur time again, with three dogs trying to avoid the camera

more Spring

 

 on the road to Down House

the succulent leaves of orpine pushing up through the leaf litter from last year. Orpine is one of the first of our wild perennials to emerge, and yet is one of the last to flower (in August September). Now that Spot's amanuensis has returned from the wild shores of Borneo (see below) and the even wilder clutches of Saga he can start blogging again.

 

dawn at Turan beach and Mrs Spot owner doing her thing.

levels

 

the top (almost) and the bottom (almost) of the food chain

things are happening

 

crocuses about to bloom as some warmth returns to the soil. For the technically minded Spot is experimenting with a 2 dioptre lens on the end of a FX Nikon 24 - 70mm lens, a tripod, and F22 which makes the camera intensely short sighted (like him) but gives a lot of depth of field over quite a wide area. Roll on FRPS.