quince – Jill Orme Photography

3 Dec 2023

Quinces

by JDO | posted in: Food, Fruit and vegetables, Still life | 0

Perhaps fortunately, the weather was horrible today, which stopped me going to the owl field. Instead, R and I worked through a raft of Christmas preparation, and having felt slightly unhinged over the past couple of days at the realisation … Continued

9 Oct 2022

Quince season

by JDO | posted in: Food, Still life | 0

Yesterday I used the excuse of us having quinces – brought down from the tree in the wild garden by the recent storm – and the fact that I therefore ‘needed’ to devise a still life image around them, to … Continued

18 Oct 2020

Fruitfulness

by JDO | posted in: Food, Fruit and vegetables, My garden, Still life, Worcestershire | 0

After a good uninterrupted eight hours of sleep, I woke this morning feeling much better. R is still suffering pretty badly though, so our plans to roller-skate up the Long Mynd had to be put on hold, and we spent … Continued

23 Aug 2020

Autumnal

by JDO | posted in: Fruit and vegetables, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

I’m paying the usual price for having had two days of fun, so I was pretty maungy this morning, but when the weather cheered up I made an effort to do the same thing, and went for a walk through … Continued

10 Jul 2020

Horrified

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

I spent much of the afternoon stalking grasshoppers and crickets around the village. It isn’t fair, really, because they absolutely hate it – Orthoptera are so far down the food chain that almost everyone eats them, so the closer you … Continued

26 Feb 2019

Very now

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, People, Warwickshire, Worcestershire | 0

Pink is in, apparently – all the girls, and the most stylish of the boys, are wearing it. Which is sad for me, because it’s not my colour. It looks good on this ornamental quince though – not one of … Continued

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