Photography
Simnel Cake for Easter
Cassata for Easter
Traditional treats for our Easter weekend, Terry baked us a Simnel Cake and his own version of a Cassata, cooking from basic ingredients. Plus some chocolate Easter eggs. We didn’t get to enjoy Easter together last year so it’s time for some celebration in our “bubble”. Commercial gyms in England are expected to re-open next Monday...
Colourfulflowers in the wonderful first rush of spring sunshine and before the storms bash the blooms. Fantastic to see colour again after this grim and grey winter in lockdown. These are flowers in and around the walled garden of Preston Manor, Brighton. Look out for the flowers around George the Brighton Pavilion cat’s memorial.
First photo imagined from a robot space lander sent to explore Richmond Park
Imagine NASA had just landed a robot spacecraft in Richmond Park looking for Life, as it has just done with Perseverance on Mars.. These might have been the first pictures their lander sent back.
Gardens are for dreaming: several successive days of rain have left the garden here drenched with the tops of the fells and mountains laced with snow that’s out of sight because of low cloud. The botanists describe this environment as Temperate Rainforest, and it can be really fertile; the moist plants are delightfully fragrant. The smells and sounds of the dripping plants conjuring up the days we hiked the Routeburn trail in New Zealand or the primeval laurel forests of Madeira and the Islas Canarias or as a child visiting Moseley Botanical Gardens with my now ninety year-old Aunt.
Here is a set of photos just from walks around my garden in Keswick, snatched between working on fixing up inside.
