Category Archives: Out and about

Wordless Wednesday – The Exotic Garden at RHS Wisley

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged Cannas, Exotic gardens, Gardens, iPhone photography, musa basjoo, palm trees, RHS Wisley, tropical planting | 10 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – Tower of Jewels

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged Echium wildpretii, Photography, Red Bugloss, Tajinaste Rojo, Tenerife, Tower of Jewels | 11 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – Fluff and stuff

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

As I walked round the pond I spotted a couple of birds busily helping to strip the downy seeds (apologies for picture quality – it was the best my phone could do). I looked them up later and I think … Continue reading →

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged birds, Bulrush, Emberiza schoeniclus, Ponds, Reed Buntings, Trumpington Meadows Nature Reserve, Typha latifolia, Walks, Wildlife | 6 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – Beds of Norfolk Reed

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged coastal environment, Norfolk, Norfolk reed, Photography, Phragmites australis | 6 Comments

A walk round RSPB Fowlmere Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire

Posted on January 12, 2022 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged birds, chalk streams, natural springs, nature, RSPB Fowlmere Nature reserve, RSPB reserve, Walks, watercress, Wildlife | 18 Comments

A frosty morning walk at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Frogend_dweller

RSPB* Fen Drayton Lakes * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is a wildlife conservation charity. Initially, the Society (without the Royal) was an all-women movement created in 1889 by Emily Williamson to fight a fashion for feathers … Continue reading →

Posted in Out and about, Walks, Wordless | Tagged birds, Frost, iPhone photography, RSPB, RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes, Walks, wetland | 12 Comments

A Week of Flowers – #Day4

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Frogend_dweller

I’ve not posted for a bit (busy and distracted, sorry), but Cathy’s lovely idea for celebrating a week of flowers, to cheer and inspire us at this time of year, was too welcome an opportunity to miss without applauding it … Continue reading →

Posted in Flowers, Out and about | Tagged A week of flowers, cumbre vieja, La Caldera de Taburiente, La Palma, Tajinaste rosado, volcano, Wildflowers, wildpretii subsp. trichosiphon | 20 Comments

Autumn 2021 at Cambridge Botanics – Vignettes

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Frogend_dweller

I managed to fit in my usual autumn visit to Cambridge Botanics last week on a gloriously sunny day, so I was hoping for brilliant colour. I certainly wasn’t disappointed by the wonderful Liquidambar by the (surprisingly empty) lake. Sadly … Continue reading →

Posted in Out and about, Trees | Tagged Acanthus senii, Autumn colours, Cambridge Botanical Gardens, Gardening, Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’, Trees | 24 Comments

Wordless Wednesday – A glimpse of Cambridge Botanics (August 2021)

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Frogend_dweller

Posted in Out and about, Wordless | Tagged #CUBG, Cambridge, Cambridge Botanical Gardens, Gardening, Gunnera, Photography | 11 Comments

On a completely different topic: Cambridge Cows!

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Frogend_dweller

I recently read that the continuation of the centuries old practice of grazing cows in Cambridge is now in some doubt, but meanwhile … 90 large, decorative cow sculptures have most definitely moved in! The sculptures have been set up … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Out and about, Whimsy | Tagged #cowsaboutcambridge, Art, Break charity, Cambridge, cows, Photography, sculpture, Summer | 8 Comments