There are two guest pictures today as they show a large eucalyptus tree which was felled by the wind in my daughter’s garden in London last night. The tree fell into their neighbours garden but luckily seems to have missed doing any damage to buildings.
Exciting times!
It was more dreary than exciting here as we woke to steady rain which continued until lunch time. Mrs Tootlepedal and I turned our minds to making marmalade out the oranges which I was given a day or two ago. This is a simple but lengthy business and filled up the morning nicely. By the time that I had put the mixture into jars…
…it was well into the afternoon and the sun had come out. This encouraged Mrs Tootlepedal to go for a cycle ride so we headed off up the Wauchope road. The sun was a bit of an illusion because there was an unseen but strong and very chilly wind in our faces and we soon turned back.
I took a couple of pictures on our way to show off this rare moment of sunshine.
The sharp eyed Mrs Tootlepedal noticed this fine fungus by the road side.
By the time we got home, the sun had gone behind the clouds and the light was poor so I abandoned the idea of a short walk and shot Mrs Tootlepedal approaching some snowdrops with suitable precautions.
I went in to test the final bit of Mrs Tootlepedal’s ginger root cake and have a slice of the sourdough bread with the touch of rye flour in it. Both passed the taste test with flying colours. Turnip has never tasted so good.
Just to annoy me, as soon as I got settled down to watch a bit of curling, a nice sunset appeared. These have been few and far between this year so I got up again and went out to look at it.
Tomorrow promises to be a better day so I hope that I can get out and about a bit then.
I did manage to find one moment when a faint ray of light and a bird were in the garden at the same time….
…but birds were few and far between today and the flying bird of the day was flying a bit higher than usual over the garden.
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Oh my! Thank goodness that tree missed the houses! I hope no-one was hurt. The marmalade looks delicious!
They were very lucky not to do too much damage to their neighbours.
It seems everyone is having their share of bad weather. Today I spent 21/2 hours shoveling thigh high snow from the deck. My husband is worried the weight could compromise the structure and he had extra duty today. I got more than half done during a light snow fall. It seems my blogs and comments have a theme in common, snow!
You do seem to have had a lot of snow this year. There seems to be a bit of hope in the forecasts here at least.
Just keep posting photos of your area greening and the flowers in the gardens and I will not go crazy!
I will do my best.
Lactarius rufus can fruit in late fall and with the way your weather has been going it might just think that it is that time of year.
Beautiful sunset!
A very rare sight just now.
WOW she is lucky poor tree the weather has taken it toll but your photos are so lovely as always.
Thank you.
🙂
I’m happy to hear that Mrs. T survived the attack of the killer snowdrops!
What shutter speed did you use to freeze the motion of the wings of your flying bird of the day? 😉
1/2000th. It worked well. But they would be expensive to feed.
Eucalyptus is a fabulous tree, fast growing and excellent shade, but quite fragile in the wind.
The orange marmalade looks delicious.
We are hoping to find it so when it has matured a little.
Loved the sunsets and glad the the tree that fell didn’t damage the buildings, it must have fallen with quite a bang.
Very sorry to hear about the eucalyptus collapse – very glad it did not do damage to buildings.
A fine set of photographs and I particularly liked the sunset. Red sky at night should have presaged a fine day today.
Eucalyptus are dangerous trees.
They know that now.
Yikes! Too close for comfort! Jan and I were wondering how you and your wife were getting along. We had seen reports on our national news regarding the severe weather over there.
Yes, we have been astonishingly lucky as gales have swept the south and snow covered the northern hills.
Your flying bird is amusing, and mmm, essence of oranges captured in jars!
We are steady consumers of marmalade.
I think I recognise that flying bird, we get similar ones here 🙂
Lucky miss with that huge tree. I’m chuckling to myself with that photo of Mrs Tootlepedal in fear for her life from the snowdrops. I’m sure she was pleased with you for catching that shot! ~SueBee
She did remark that she was never going out into the garden straight after cycling again.