Where summer doesn’t touch
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 175 I was kind of amazed that these trees still don’t have leaves on them. I’ve no idea why, though.
Coquette
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 136 A female mallard who wouldn’t leave us alone as we tried doing some wildlife photography at Leighton Moss.
Flowers in the sunlight
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 127 A white Rhodonedron growing in the grounds of a house in Caton (luckily for your photographer, right next to the road).
Whither the wind blows
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 124 A bent and twisted tree (I don’t know what species, alas) on back road between Galgate and Caton. This was one of those lucky spur of the moment captures, where there happened to be a convenient spot to stop the car. [...]
A clock in waiting
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 119 I’ve never understood why people hate dandelions or daisies or buttercups. Sure, if you want a perfect green croquet lawn then they might be a scourge but otherwise why hate something so spontaneous and hardy and beautiful? I’m particularly pleased with [...]
Summer’s first blooming, part the second
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 117 And next to yesterday’s cherry blossom, we have pear blossom. And I mean next to as in "right next to," because the two trees, sakura and pear, are intertwined with each other, sharing a living space in the centre of the [...]
One does not pose for the Paparazzi
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 115 A Wheatear turns resolutely away from me as I try to get a good shot of him. It’s times like this I really wish I had a bigger lens than the 200mm.
Rural idyll in the heart of a mill town
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 111 This is Tinker Brook as it runs through Foxhill Bank nature reserve in Oswaldtwistle. Once an area of hard concrete lodges, this is now just about the closest most Ossy people will get to nature without heading out of town and [...]
I can’t see you, you’re not there…
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 107 Taken near Claughton in the Lune valley. This little guy (or girl) seemed supremely indifferent to me. Mum, on the other hand, was not amused that I was snapping photos of her calf.
Wilderness welcomes careful walkers
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 86 The gateway into some of the access land in Bowland Forest, with all the customary warnings about not littering or killing or setting fire to things. Note the litter on this side of the fence. See, that’s considered okay.
Nature works in mysterious ways
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 72 A gnarled tree on the south bank of the Lune at Halton. How it managed to get to this shape I don’t know. This is black and white because I managed to massively overexpose it. Monochroming it and playing with the [...]
The trumpeting heralds of spring
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty odd days of 2008, day 69 When you’re driving past a layby on a grey, wet, windy day and you see this fantastic burst of colour amongst the drabness, what are you to do?
The Lonely Little Barn
Graham Binns posted a photo: Three hundred and sixty-odd days of 2008, day 29 This was taken during my lunch break, standing on the top of Jubilee Tower, looking down into the Trough of Bowland. It was, I might add, more than a touch windy. I love how bleak and empty the Trough looks from [...]
The Dawn Chorus
I was woken at four o’clock this morning by somthing chirrupping and squeaking about six feet above my head. At first I thought it was another mouse in the roof, though I’d never heard them squeak before. Then, after my just-woken befuddlement passed (or at least faded a bit), I realised that it was a [...]
Good.
BBC News: ‘Intelligent design’ teaching ban A court in the US has ruled against the teaching of “intelligent design” alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Duck!
It looks like spring is finally here, even though it’s now summer. The ducks who inhabit the area around the Crook o’Lune have finally had babies, as evidenced by this photograph: And this one: And this one: Of course being only young they haven’t quite figured everything out yet, such as why big chunks of [...]
My Time With The Mob
I have to consider it a good omen, even though I don’t believe in them, even though it is Friday the 13th today. As I pulled out of the driveway this morning, blearily rubbing sleep from my eyes and trying to shake off the drowsiness that has been hovering over me for much of the [...]
News from Deutschland
I’m barely struggling out of my early morning torpor at the moment but I thought that I should share this with you as soon as possible. According to recent media reports, the Altona district of Hamburg is currently being afflicted by a plague of exploding toads. According to the WikiPedia Entry: …numerous toads in the [...]
No Sex Please, We’re British
Our garden was full of fornicating birds this morning. At first it was just a pair of courting blackbirds who spent a great deal of time dancing around and about one another before finally getting down to business in a brief but interesting flurry of feathers and activity, after which the female appeared to fly [...]
Easter Chicks
Still no closer to a reasonable-length post, I’m afraid (though most of what I could say would be rather boring, I suspect), but I thought that I’d give you a piece of news that I just discovered that rather warmed my heart. I’m very pleased to announce (to the northern hemisphere at least) that three [...]
