the garden - edible flowers

this year I have taken an interest in the garden






Best not go into my relationship with moles in the garden last year....

quiet, now catching up

It's all been a bit quiet for a few years - but life and the seasons have been going on, round and round.
This spring I had a toad making a bid for a new community in the bowl I like to drink from outside the door of my room


He did have a female in tow the next night but a few yards away - there is no evidence of toad's spawn.
I wasn't that impressed when he thought he might get under the door




I had best not report what happened with the moles last summer....

swallow gwennol

Last tuesday [March 29th] she broke into my afternoon nap and I had to get off the ssofa and go outside: "I think I've heard a swallow [I didn't like the possibility of doubt, not interupting comfortable sleep...but...], I'm sure I've heard one [OK OK on my way]. Stood around, then suddenly a scamper off to view behind the birch trees, where there indeed, in a classic pose on the electric wires, was a swallow. Very early I'd say.
But neither hide nor feather of another one since.