Aquilegia in our garden in May. Have a lovely Thursday everyone.

Have a lovely weekend all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments & faves. Taken last May in Bushey Rose Garden.

Wishing all my lovely Flickr friends a very Happy Healthy New Year!

Greylag goslings on a local pond. One was very curious.

She`s still visiting us about three times a day for a few sultanas. Still no sign of Bertie.

Have a lovely pre-Christmas weekend all my Flickr friends.

Have a lovely weekend and Valentine`s Day all my Flickr friends and thank you for all your kind comments & faves, "Ruby Anniversary" rose taken in Bushey Rose Garden in May last year!

This is a rhododendron. You've helped me, thank you so much, I wondered if it's an azalea. Found a huge shrub smothered in these white blooms in Sutton Park. The flowers are so showy, so frilly - really beautiful, I had to take a picture.

~ Processed in Topaz Studio ~

Also a good excuse to put this uplifting music and video on - hope you like this too ! Hope it cheers everyone up - it does me !

Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark

Thanks for having a look, my Flickr friends ! Yes, it's a rhododendron :o)

Canada goose. Taken last May on a local pond.

Another shot from last night of a boat coming back just before sunset. OK, maybe not a sailboat but it feels right.

We had a great sunset last night. I watched it from the window as I had another commitment...

So here's a sunset from a few weeks ago down by Westport Quay.

riverside walk

riverside walk

Hello flickr friends... it has been so long! Life sometimes has curves and it is difficult to get around to see you all! I do hope and pray that you are all well.

My sweet husband gave me roses for our 56th anniversary on the 22nd.

thanks so much for your visits!!

Weather this week has been dreamy

Old architecture

finally I met with spring

Taken at Walthamstow wetlands

ice cream wrapper

This Grackle is checking things out. He decided to stay and partake of the bird seed that I put out!

Thanks so much for your visits and I wish you all a safe weekend.

This squirrel figured out how to get at the grape jelly that I had put out for the Orioles!! I was not happy but he was!!!

Thanks so much for your visits!!

riverside walk

In the middle of a largish field so quite relaxed about me being behind the hedge.

Long, long zoom giving an almost painterly effect.

Took over 300 pictures it was a magical morning

Water level down showing what used to be.

Thinking in the Landscape

Dandelion Seed head that looks like an almost perfect spoke wheel. Lehaunstown, Dublin, Ireland

looking out

short walk in park

New beginnings...a male adult sparrow getting ready to feed its hungry young fledglings in the backyard on a branch in the Garry oak tree.

Oh my gosh, off the chart cuteness! I could spend hours watching them. Nature is truly beautiful.

Prunella modularis

Walked 5 miles, which is my limit before I start falling over.Dunnock was on a post waiting for me to get back, just as well as I got nothing else worth keeping.

riverside walk

Love is never a problem, I am overflowing with it. But some of the questions I ponder now scare me a bit.

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”

― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays