garden – Page 29 – Jill Orme Photography

14 Apr 2024

Marshmallow

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

Quite a bit of the Boy Wonder’s morning was spent in our kitchen, helping us to wrap his Daddy’s birthday presents – both the rock cookies we made yesterday, and the gifts R and I had bought for G – … Continued

13 Apr 2024

Ta-da!

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

“So, which story are we reading?” I asked the Boy Wonder at bedtime. “The monster one!” was the immediate (and by this point confidently expected) reply. So I read Kipper’s Monster. And then I read it again. And then there … Continued

12 Apr 2024

Brace position

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

This is the best year for Common Mourning Bees that I ever remember – the males, at least, of which I have at least four currently patrolling the top garden. I haven’t yet seen a female, but I’m quite sanguine … Continued

11 Apr 2024

Trickyposition

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

Back in my comfort zone today, and on the first really spring-like day of the year, I took over six hundred photos of insects engaged in various activities. This might not be technically the best of them, but when you … Continued

9 Apr 2024

Tarnished

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

I’ve been photographing different specimens of Epistrophe eligans ever since they emerged last week, but until today none has made it into my journal. Today it rained until lunchtime, and even when that stopped it was blowing a gale and … Continued

7 Apr 2024

Another

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

Another day, another bee. And also, another day of furiously stormy winds, making photographing anything that wasn’t nailed down a bit of a mission. Even though I don’t believe in astrology, I risked checking the Met Office app this morning … Continued

6 Apr 2024

Sallow

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

The combination of a crazily busy morning and the current round of stormy weather had me feeling almost unhinged by lunchtime. A loathing of high winds isn’t new for me – in my early 20’s I lived in Milton Keynes, … Continued

5 Apr 2024

Bronze

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

It’s always a red-letter day when I spot a Honeysuckle Sawfly, because we never get many here, and there have been years when I haven’t found any at all. At lunchtime today I was out in the garden with the … Continued

4 Apr 2024

Hover fly

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

Oh, my days – I am so sick of rain. I slept late this morning, for the simple reason that it didn’t get light until nearly 9am, and when I got up it was to the discovery that it had … Continued

3 Apr 2024

Siesta

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

I spent a while in the garden this afternoon, firstly planting up patio pots, and then wandering around with the camera in search of invertebrates. Initially I didn’t have much luck with the insects because it was dark and rather … Continued

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