by jenny.monds | Jan 9, 2025 | BLOGS
Yesterday afternoon we had a layer of powdery snow, which froze overnight. The resulting layer of white is not like frost, not quite like snow. From inside the house the covering on the grass resembles snow, but up close it’s a different world! The grass is...
by jenny.monds | Oct 23, 2024 | BLOGS
Maybe it’s to do with getting older, but more and more I see beauty in decay. This cow-parsley seed head now has a brittle stem. The flowers, long gone, have given way to oval seed cases, the seeds just visible within. The flower stalks end in delicate stems...
by jenny.monds | Sep 19, 2024 | BLOGS
Faces are endlessly fascinating, don’t you agree? Everyone has two eyes, a nose, a mouth and a chin. How can they all be so different? Apparently the likelihood of two people sharing exactly the same facial features is estimated to be less than 1 in 1 trillion!...
by jenny.monds | Aug 22, 2024 | BLOGS
The sunflower is a beautiful flower. And it can grow impossibly tall. I remember my grandmother ‘accidentally’ growing a hugely tall one (or so it seemed to me then) which she thought must have come from the bird seed she constantly threw on the ground. Latter...
by Tess Tidmarsh | Jul 19, 2024 | BLOGS
I was so surprised in France recently to see a small bee fly past me while clutching a leaf. I’d never seen anything like it. It almost looked as though it was riding a little green magic carpet. Then the bee landed on a stone wall and tried to push the leaf into a...
by jenny.monds | Jul 9, 2024 | BLOGS
Could anyone not like peonies? Rose-like but more flamboyant, this one is a wonderful fuchsia pink. Definitely a “look at me” flower. The tightly curled central petals are a mass of shapes, interesting to draw, and reminiscent of a shaggy pom-pom. The peony is a...
