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While weeding the garden this morning I spotted a perfect dandelion head. Always more than happy to be distracted by something shiny, I fetched camera and tripod and wasted spent twenty minutes taking shots. An hour after leaving it in … Continued

Wandering around the garden this afternoon with the 31mm extension tube and the 85mm lens on the camera, I was struck by how pretty the tiny pink flowers of Tamarix ramosissima pentandra were looking. It was a silly idea to … Continued

…. is what I’m called by absolutely no-one who knows me. I bought this Passiflora caerulea yesterday: after an administratively trying morning at the salt mine I thought I deserved a free coffee, so I popped in to Waitrose to … Continued

Up till last year there was a single, huge clump of irises in the front garden – it hadn’t been touched in all the years we’d lived here, and probably not for some time before that. The rhizomes had spread … Continued

Isn’t it odd that whenever you leave the house without a camera, something appears that you [i]need[/i]  to photograph? Having lugged around a camera and a spare lens for most of the day, yet failed to take a shot I … Continued

It’s CH’s and my wedding anniversary today, so we went out for some together (in the same place at the same time, rather than in separate spaces, one doing music and the other doing photography stuff) time. There are currently … Continued

What lies beyond? Dare you pass through? Thanks to Dollykgray for hosting Mono Monday this month.

It’s a funny old game, this gardening lark. I planted this Deutzia x kalmiiflora back in 2001. In the intervening years it has grown, quite slowly, to a medium-sized shrub – but it has always looked scrubby and unimpressive, even … Continued

I felt I was letting the side down, here at Granny’s Camera Club. It’s too long since I posted a fuzzy cat photo. So here you have a fuzzy furry cat. Ignore the apple blossom bokeh if you would – … Continued

I took this shot (and about a dozen others) when I got home from work this afternoon – hand held, because I decided that it was too awkward to get a tripod into the heavily-planted bed where the lilac lives. … Continued