Yes, there really was snow this morning! Only a few flakes but it definitely was snow – and it was certainly cold enough – with an east wind that would cut you in two. So this is a nice sunny picture of broom down by the tennis courts on balmy Thursday of last week. Although …
Hampstead Heath
Back on the heath….
OK – so –what is he – or she? I could not find him/her in my Book of British Birds – but then I didn’t really know what I was looking for. But very friendly as he/she allowed me to get this close with just an iPhone – no long distance lenses. (Thank you, Tom …
Highgate School scores
This evening I went for my ‘permitted walk’ around Bishopswood Avenue which envelops many of Highgate School’s buildings and its extensive playgrounds – all deserted as a result of our current lock-down situation. And there may not have been any children on the premises – but there were some very lovely spring flowers. These super …
More sun – glorious
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 …
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 …