As a child I had kidney disease so was in bed a lot. One of my favourite toys was a puzzle, long lost. For two decades, on and off, I’ve searched for it. Saw one ten years ago: sold days before. Weep. On Tuesday I found it again.£12.90. Was terrified it would be incomplete. #joy

There’s always a delicious shiver at walking beneath these twisted, mossy trees into the deeper darkness. Padley Gorge is a place that never fails to draw me in, just a bit further, just to the next corner, and the next. I stay out far too long with the crows and the shadows.

Wandering.

Small Yellow Wave, (Hydrelia flammeolaria). 🙂

Beach Finds #Withernsea

A lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by a skilled ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago. The limestone relief was originally painted. Faint traces of colour survive - see papyrus umbrel bottom right. This panel once adorned

On Sycamore Hill grows this absolute giant of a tree, perfectly formed, the sort of tree a child would draw if asked to draw a tree. Of course it helps that he stands on his own podium and is approached via a rustic gate in a meadow of wildflowers. He deserves nothing less.

Went to the bay today. Flies everywhere but hey, sailboats.

Wow! Need to plant another row of potatoes in the garden next year 😉🙂 Death’s-head Hawkmoth caterpillar in Pentridge, Dorset today! Looking very big, looking very full and surely about to pupate very soon Dorset Moths BC Dorset 🦋 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #Mothsmatter

― Sylvia Plath, in a letter to Aurelia Plath

My new rose bush is thriving. It was in the sort of Woops section of the garden centre and looking a bit sad. The colour is so beautiful. My rescue rose makes me happy.

In the interplay between the lightness and shade where hopeful can soar.

Magical Evening. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

#SensoryJoy

The leaves soften, the bracken rusts, the sunrise ticks later. The change seems to happen imperceptibly, but walk along a lane untrodden for a while, and there it is. The air is thicker, as if Nature is holding her breath and watching the slow fade of green to gold alongside you.

Beach Brick

Deep in a sunflower field, wading through a forest of stems, looking right into their huge disc faces, intoxicated by the scent. #sunflowers #sunshine #joy

A s flake is to blizzard, as C urve is to sphere, as knot is to net, as O ne is to many, as coin is to money, as R ock is to mountain, as drop is to fountain, as spring is to river, as N ear is to far, as light is to star, as kindness is to good –– so acorn is to wood.

Just been out with the UV torch h and found another fluorescing Eyed Hawk-moth caterpillar. This one looks like something had laid purple eggs on it? Fascinating! Quite a bizarre sight, but poor caterpillar… ⁦British Moths⁩ ⁦John Walters⁩