Light is the magic!
This was the High Street in Oxford this morning, Wednesday. Yesterday was grey and raining, and tomorrow is forecast grey and raining. But today, the light is fantastic, a blue sky, you can see detail which is just not there at all in the so often grey. This is...
Beauty beyond words!
Such colours, such luxury, such style, such opulence, glamour, joy, and then such scent as well! Beyond dreams, beyond belief, imagination, beyond anything we could ever make! And you can have this every spring by just taking a tiny bit of trouble, looking forward,...
Importing Dutch bulbs to the UK
I was fascinated by this photo taken at the end of the 19th Century in Northern Holland. After the bulbs were harvested from the fertile polders, they were packed and transported by men and dog carts who walked to the nearby ports, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam....
Lent Lily
Driving back from a meeting in Norwich after the Easter weekend, my breath was caught when I glimpsed banks of our wild daffodil, Narcissus lobularis, naturalised to perfection in a Suffolk churchyard. St Mary, Henstead has always entranced me. It is raised proudly on...