I almost walked over this poor little hedgehog this morning! In November – fancy that! The fact that it went totally still and pretended to be part of the background didn’t help at all..
Not the worlds best photo by a very long way, but the best I could without stressing the animal or muddying my work clothes!
Some trees change colour gradually, some rapidly like this one below. Took less than 2 weeks to go from green ṭo the lovely reds!
Malva moschata (Malvaceae) – lovely pink flowers, usually found growing wild in meadows (like this one!) 
Spotted in a freshly harvested wheat field, a lonely ear of wheat that escaped! Photographed with an iPhone.
This dream-like scene seen at the National Trust Anglesey Abbey property using an iPhone. To me, everything in here symbolises spring. Daffodils, Hyacinths, Cherry Blossoms and the brilliant hues of a Japanese maple tree.
If you came looking for Fred or Wilma Flintstone, then you’ve come to the wrong place :)!
East Anglia and Norfolk in England have many flint stones that can be found littering the countryside. Flints have been used since the stone-age to make sharp-edged weapons like axes and arrow-heads, as well as in the creation of sparks to produce a fire. The flints found in our local area take on peculiar shapes, like the one below which looks like a horseshoe.
I try to take a walk around lunchtime every day when the weather permits. While this provides me with much-needed physical activity, it also takes me through public footpaths between villages and fields. Yesterday, I came across this pink rag doll propped up on a hedgerow in the middle of nowhere!
Maybe it is post-christmas blues, or that we’ve all had to come back to work after a long break! The dried teasel below mirrors my feelings exactly!!
Photographed on 7th January, 2014 using an iPhone and processed in Adobe Lightroom with Photomatix Pro.
Photographed on one of my usual lunch time walks. The teasel (Dipsacus) has dry spiny inflorescence head that make lovely additions to floral arrangements!
Via Flickr:
Teasel – Black and White
Tasty wild blackberries on a roadside bush. I suppose the joys of getting food like harks back to our hunter-gatherer past.
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