More trees and flowers

In Gillie's garden in Hampshire

Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh

Botanical Gardens, Oxford, looking through tree to Magdalen College (the top part is where the choir sings on May Day morning at 5 a.m. each year to bring in the Spring

Botanical Gardens, Oxford

My window sill - a lovely amaryllis given to me by Brian and Christine for Christmas - this is its second flowering!

Waxwings in Edinburgh

 I was up in Edinburgh over Christmas, and took photos of waxwings, who were looking lovely - masses of them, with their jaunty headgear..

In the Botanical Gardens this tree, with the sun on its peeling bark, looked as if it was on fire...

A visit to Pitt Rivers

I can't believe it's been such a long time since I made a blog entry - not since last July - not that anyone has noticed!!!!   I decided to pop into Pitt Rivers museum again, and visit the bits I like best (mainly the gory ones) and it reminded me of the visit from my grandchildren last August.  I had promised them a trip to Pitt Rivers for SO LONG and at last we made it.  And here I am again, looking at the macabre....

and the sublime....

and below, as you can see, back to the macabre.

(I think we all feel like this one sometimes...)

Wittenham Clumps - looking up

closeup of the above, showing wing detail

The red kite was just begging to have its photograph taken.   So I did.   I like the first picture best, where you can see the detail of the pattern on its wings.  Took these, then went home happy.

Wittenham Clumps - looking down

 He loves me....

He loves me not.....

He loves me.....

He definitely loves me not.....                                                                                                            

A smart ladybird in a glossy suit

And this pretty butterfly nestling in the glass

Wittenham Clumps

 Looking up at Wittenham Clumps, where the ox-eye daisies are in clover

Looking across the ox-eye daisies at Didcot Power Station.   I walked down here closely past  herd of cows that turned out to be .....not.

Olympic torch

 I can honestly say that, if it hadn't been for the fact that the torch was going to be passing literally a few yards from my front door, I wouldn't have bothered....

 Here she comes...

 Here she is....

There she goes....