Well, I don't know about you, but I very much like the way the ripples in the water look as if they've been put there by the brush-strokes of an artist...

I love our garden! Every day is different at this time of year. This was nowhere near flowering yesterday.

On our early Sunday morning walk today, we wandered through the churchyard at Selborne - and paid our respects to naturalist Gilbert White.

For #ThickTrunkTuesday - dead, but no doubt still providing plenty of life as host for lichen, insects and wildlife of all kinds.

A wisp of mist over the rape field on a recent early morning walk.

Our dog has heard that they are auditioning for a canine remake of the film 'Titanic'... and is now hoping for the female lead and thereby utter the famous line: "Draw me like one of your French girls"!

A lovely little Severn bore last night. Thanks to the shape of the sandbanks at the moment it’s possibly the widest I’ve seen.

More Polish headstarted lovelies. Poland have been doing this for 8 years now and keeping the Curlew population going. But there are big issues to sort out for the birds when they fly into the real world. Can we fix those across Europe? That’s much more complicated 🐦

Just four reasons why I like being out and about early at this time of year.

Currently my favourite cheese (but I am known to be fickle on such important matters) Joe Bangles CBE

Chawton church (#Hampshire) as seen from a distance during the course of our early morning walk today.

"The way through the woods..."

My old Sunday School teacher always used to talk of 'keeping to the straight and narrow' so on a recent early morning walk I did just that!

Of all the photos I took on a trip to Italy a couple of years ago, this is one of my favourites - and was obtained by poking the camera through a little gap in the ornate brickwork of a boat-house belonging to a grand private villa...I wonder if I could get a job as a paparazzo?!

The Drifters sang about 'Under the Boardwalk' - this, though, is more a case of over the boardwalk.

Just three ducks off to make a phone call on #TelephoneBoxTuesday.

A photo of wire-haired fox terriers that I took at a Fête de la Chasse in France several summers’ ago. It looks more like a painting than a photo and I’d like to say it was an effect I was deliberately trying to achieve – but, truth to tell, it was more of a fortunate accident!

A Reclining Man in a Cap ('Forgotten then were the disconsolate, the rainy days') by Harry Becker (Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service: Ipswich Borough Council Collection)