Another fabulous day on the heath. Blue skies and the dark wateside trees reflected in the pond – last year’s bull rushes, small bits of fluff sticking to their rough conical brown brushes. This is the Stock Pond – one of the 30 ponds to be found on or around the heath, many of them …
And down in Dorset….
And lest anyone should think that all the action was up here in London, my good friend Sarah Stacey just sent me these images from deepest Dorset. What is that amazing web around those buds? And here are her two elegantly retired horses, Keats and Big Boy, bonding after what looks like a rather good …
Sunday morning in the sun
Really cold wind this morning but glorious sun – and budding hawthorns… And yesterday afternoon, on the boating pond – most appropriately….. and already, way out to sea, his mate – and moorhen. No, not two kids but two grown men, relaxing in the sun.
Sun was back, briefly, this morning
At 8.30 this morning the sun was back, albeit only briefly, but for long enough for me to nip down my ‘private path’ to the heath – and what did I find, peeping through the carpet of sleeping celandines… A single fritillaria, nodding its plum and white speckled petals in their bell-like flowers in the …
No sun – head for the sea….
It was a horribly grey damp day today so I fear I did not even make it to the heath. But, instead – how about these glorious beaches in the west of Ireland where I was last week. This is Mullaghmore – and amazingly, these calm flat beaches offer some of the best surfing in …
No sun today…..
There was no sun on the heath today – although belatedly I see a little bit of blue sky. But it was mild and amazingly, after all these years, I managed to get lost! It comes of having moved up to the heights of Highgate, far from the familiar lowlands of Parliament Hill and Belsize …