Gnirps

Today’s guest picture comes from our daughter Annie. She visited Hampton Court gardens in the sunshine yesterday. As forecast, the promised breath of spring lasted precisely one day, and we were thrown into reverse, by a cold, wet, and miserable morning. To add insult to injury, it didn’t even rain properly. When I walked up

Hopes washed away

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Caroline in Portsmouth. She found an even better looking camellia bush on her walk yesterday. Our day started quite well here. It was grey and chilly. but it was dry, and I walked up to the town after breakfast to collect a prescription and buy some milk. When

Lofty ambitions realised

Today’s guest picture comes from my brother Andrew. His lovely picture of the Derwent this afternoon doesn’t show the chilly wind that went with the sunshine. We had a dry and warm morning here, and the conditions were benign enough to tempt Mrs Tootlepedal to cycle to church to sing in the choir for the

Gardening, walking and getting wet

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary’s garden in London. Spring is a bit further ahead down there. We woke to a grey and drizzly day, but the drizzle was faint enough in the morning to let me walk up to the town to get milk and rolls, and to let us both get

Flat as a pancake

Toady’s guest picture was kindly sent to me by Dropscone’s niece, Hilary. She has been doing some bird watching in New York City lately. We had another dry day here, but sadly it didn’t get much warmer, so although our visitors got to roam round the garden, it wasn’t a day that looked attractive for a

The big screen

Today’s guest picture comes from Lavinia, a loyal reader from Oregon. At my request she went out and photographed one of her local lichens, and kindly sent me the result. She thinks that it is a foliose type lichen, possibly a Lobaria pulmonaria. We had a most enjoyable day here, entertaining our daughter and granddaughter. Evie, our four

Snow and sunshine

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Mary. She paid another visit to Kew Gardens last week and met an old friend again Much to our surprise, and rather to our dismay, we found that it was snowing when we got up this morning. If it had gone on to produce a winter wonderland, we

Not a walking day

Today’s guest picture comes from my sister Caroline in Portsmouth. She took it to show that they have sunrises there too. It is just as well that I got it, as it is the only touch of colour in today’s post. It was a day with no redeeming features as far as the weather went here. It

The sun shines on our visitors

Today’s guest picture is another of the River Derwent in Derby taken by my brother Andrew. He remarks that there is plenty of water in the river. We had a fine day at last here, though it came with near freezing temperatures, which was not a surprise at this time of year. As a result, we waited

Hedge reduction

The guest picture of the day comes from my brother Andrew. It shows that they had quite a bit more wind in Derby than we had here yesterday. He says that they had a lot of trees and branches down. It wasn’t the wind that was cutting things down in our garden today, but a man