The Buzzard and the Crow

We live near the Downs – an open area now South Down National Park and noticed more and more buzzards congregating on field fences and wheeling in the sky and fewer and fewer wild rabbits. Yesterday the sky was empty, blue and sunny than the noise of a very angry bird, a crow got closer […]

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Wind Flower

  The Wood Anemone is named after the Greek wind god, Anemos, who sent his namesakes, the anemones, in early spring to herald his coming. This legend gives the flower its other common name of ‘Windflower’. Walking here is very beautiful – this small wood is filled with fresh green on the trees and underfoot […]

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Keukenhof, Netherlands

this garden was very busy and everywhere you looked familys knee deep in tulips but lovely to see them and be there – the people, the light – lovely country most proud, drove round Amsterdam at 11pm and finding right exit off the ring road – most scary, pile up on M25 on way over […]

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