bud – Jill Orme Photography

16 Mar 2025

Gardening

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Eeeurgh. Or, well, no… actually, I was pretty pleased with my achievements in the garden today. This morning R and I cut up and moved the last big pine branch that came down in the January storms, which I’d assured … Continued

14 Mar 2024

Drenched

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, Wales | 0

As we walked the Boy Wonder back to the car after collecting him from school I told him that the Baby Brother had gone off with Mummy and Daddy to have his first set of injections, but he looked a … Continued

31 Jan 2024

Blue

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It being the last day of January, and just about 10°C, I decided that it might be worth having a little hunt around the garden for invertebrates. I didn’t expect to find much, and I didn’t, but the bug season … Continued

28 Mar 2023

Tiny

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

As I’m currently perched on top of the European Unprocessed Raw Files Mountain, I took advantage of a wet day to try to reduce the size of the problem, and over more hours than I care to calculate, managed to … Continued

20 Feb 2023

Perched

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Right up until I processed this image, I expected to be posting a contre jour blue tit today. But there’s something about this one – the light on the bird, and the buds on the twig, plus the well-diffused background … Continued

11 Jan 2022

Weevil huddle

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Birds, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Warwickshire | 0

I was starting to worry that I might have posted a surfeit of roosting pairs of Oxystoma pomonae weevils over the past few weeks, so I went out into the garden this afternoon and found a quartet of them. Don’t … Continued

5 Dec 2021

Persecuted

by JDO | posted in: Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I feel guilty every time I do this – though not guilty enough to stop, obviously. I was searching the photinia for birch catkin bugs when I caught sight of this leafhopper, which was trying to edge round to the … Continued

3 Dec 2021

Blues

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

For a variety of reasons with which I won’t bore you, I have the blues today. But tomorrow will most probably be better, if only because the light is forecast to return. It was so dark in the garden this … Continued

30 Nov 2021

Pining

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I spent most of the day doing far more useful and boring things than taking photos, and it was mid-afternoon before I realised that I was headed for trouble if I didn’t get outside with the camera pretty promptly. Given … Continued

26 Jan 2021

Viburnum

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It was a bitterly cold and dreary day. On the plus side, the window cleaner came, so we were able to see how dank and icy it was outside without actually leaving the house – especially after R, who is … Continued