Enjoy the view
As I look out the window now the snow is falling – so how could it be that only yesterday we were all cavorting in the sun on the lawns of Kenwood? However, that is how it was – and here are some video walks to prove it!! First, a brief clip of birdsong going …
Sunny Easter Sunday at Kenwood – a fritillary and a grumpy goose!Read More
Those who would like to listen rather than look can go straight to this ‘talking’ budding pussy willow video. There is also a description of the cross swan at the bottom of this post as well as a video. Those who would like to visit the magnolias first, please read on. Held by yesterday’s and …
Magnolias, pussy willow buds (talking!) and a very cross swan!Read More
Sunday morning dawned bright and shiny and I was up betimes. Not only up, but up at Kenwood where the daffodil bank is just starting to come into its own. Although somewhat overshadowd by the daffs, lurking at the bottom of a tree was this lovely clutch of croci. Further into the woods I came …
I am not good at catching the early morning sun. It is not that I get up late – I am an early riser. But long habit draws me first to my desk and then, before I know it, it is 2pm and I am catching the late afternoon instead of the early morning sun. …
In fact, today it was grey and unattractive enough for me to have to talk seriously to myself to drag myself from my desk. But I did, and I discovered that there had been some major pruning done on the rhododendrons on the lawns at the side of Kenwood House. On the other side of …
I realise that, between this and that, I have not taken you for a walk for quite a long time, so, to make up, here are three of my favourite short walks. Walk 1. Down my ‘private path’ down past Athlone House gardens onto the heathland which runs between me in Highgate and Kenwood House. …
