> …..comes around. It’s asparagus time again. A bit early for me – I’ll wait until the unforced stuff comes on the market and then we’ll pick it up…
> Tulips from Amsterdam tralalaaaa
> Hum along to the rest…..
> when sweetheart cabbages, leeks and celeriac start crowding out raspberries, blackberries and nectarines…
> I can’t help it. I can’t waste food, I can’t throw away seedlings that I can make grow into plants for someone to use and I can’t watch fruit…
> That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet The Whitsun rose aka the Benedictine rose aka Paeonia officinalis. (There’s also the tree peony,…
> Grape hyacinths in a Frank the Potter pot
> Correction: was sprung. 6ºC, down from 18ºC yesterday. Major advantages: Stops Nature blasting off on a time-lapse version of the seasons. Major disadvantages: Makes me wear shoes again.Image: iPhone…
> It’s pretty cool when you get back after 4 weeks away on the first day of spring and it really IS spring. Temperatures zoomed up to mid-teens over…
> “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” Anne Bradstreet, ‘Meditations…
>Pollard trees along the Rhine Promenade in Mainz. At the moment they look dead, but in summer they provide fabulous shade.
>The houses that are covered in vines in Summer are looking very naked now. This is all that’s left.
>This was the scene this morning at the tram stop. It snowed quite a bit last night (the kids next door built a snowman). Unfortunately, the snow didn’t hang around…
>I took myself off for a random bike ride yesterday and ended up in the Römerwall park. It is a peaceful stretch of green (yellow at the moment) between the…
>Now somebody has to sweep them up again. Tut, tut.
>…but happily today the sky was blue. With the onset of the cooler weather (it was around 5 degrees C this morning on my ride into school) my hands are…
> Ramblin Round at Selma, Ala. Daily Photo chose me to receive the Fabulous Fall Bloggers award for the “Last of the Summer Strawberries” picture the other day. A fair…
> …hasn’t been calling yet, but he can’t be far away. Still harvesting basil from the garden and tomatoes are still ripening.
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