Wildflowers and health walks I try and walk for my health every day. I only do about half an hour but it seems to be enough. Sometimes I do a bit of mindfulness at the same time. Most times I follow the same route past the cemetery heading out of Seaford, through a lime walk…
Category: Nature
Watching nature – birds and bees in my garden, or larger animals further afield.
Photographing August wildflowers in Spain
Here are some wildflowers spotted in and around Gaucin in Southern Spain 2017. All these photos were taken on the same day along the same lane in late August. Here is a related post about dried flowers I spotted on the same walk.
Winter heliotrope | Petasites pyrenaicus syn fragrans
Fragrant winter heliotrope is almost over I’ve just been out for a walk in Seaford past this large swathe of wildflower leaves. It is winter heliotrope, Petasites pyrenaicus also known as Petasites fragrans. Identifying winter heliotrope I only recently found out what this was. I had photographed some heliotrope flowers last year in Seaford, but…
Tide Mills – a lovely spot for photographing wildflowers
Spotting wildflowers on a local walk Tide Mills is the site of a ruined village in a historic coastal area between Seaford and Newhaven, which is popular with walkers. There were plenty of wildflowers to be seen when I visited in August. After parking off the A259, the path skirts a couple of fields as…
Mindful wildflower walks
Mercy’s exercise blog with wildflowers My friend Mercy writes a running blog. She frequently stops during her exercise to photograph flowers and other points of interest. I particularly enjoyed this post in which she was continually distracted by the things around her. Having just started reading the book Mindfulness for Dummies, I can see similarities…
Composting for the birds
I’m quite proud of our compost bins! We have two bins made out of old pallets from work, each about a cubic metre in size. As well as garden waste and vegetable peelings, I also compost any dried flower sweepings from my shop, so it can sometimes be rather pretty with rose petals and dried…