Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Cardiff, Nature, Trees on May 31, 2014| 13 Comments »
Unidentified tree, Llandaff Fields, May 7
For now, I am calling this the winter tree. Because when I last visited Llandaff Fields a few weeks ago this was one of very few trees still struggling to break into leaf. Everywhere else the branches were clad in green – including a couple of earlier mystery trees, which I have now identified (see later in this post!).
I have no idea (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2014| 21 Comments »
300 – a movie about angry Spartans – nothing to do with this blog post but I rather like Gerard Butler as Leonidas…
I’m not one for celebrating anniversaries or even birthdays, but I feel I must mark this, my 300th blog post. I can’t think of anything spectacular to do, so I will just use the opportunity to “do a retrospective” on some of my recurring themes, particularly for any new followers.
I spent ages messing about on the Wordle site – click on the image to go and play there yourself!
I began blogging in (more…)
Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Nature, oak, Spring, Trees on May 16, 2014| 3 Comments »
Oaks in leaf at last in Llandaff Fields, Cardiff, on May 7, 2014
You may recall that I have been waiting for the huge “oak” trees to come into leaf near the hornbeam I am following, so I could make a proper identification. I thought they were oak because of last year’s dead leaves in the vicinity, but to be honest these trees don’t look like (more…)
Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged hornbeam, Nature, Spring, Trees on May 11, 2014| 13 Comments »
The hornbeam I am following, pictured in the centre, on May 7, 2014
For still there are so many things that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring there is a different green.
(from “I Sit and Think” by JRR Tolkien)
It’s that time again, for visiting “my” tree to give an update for Loose & Leafy’s tree-following project.
I feared I would miss the “female” flowers on the hornbeam, or not see them as the branches are so high up, so (more…)
Posted in Nostalgia, Uncategorized, Words, tagged Nostalgia, Words on May 5, 2014| 9 Comments »
Antimacassar set for a doll’s house, from the Buttercup Miniatures site…
As a child I floated in a sea of wonderful words, many of which I don’t hear any more – so I am always delighted when I come across them in a crossword. One such is antimacassar, which I spotted again the other day.
We didn’t actually (more…)
Posted in Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Nature, Spring, Trees on May 1, 2014| 3 Comments »
Pink cherry blossom…
Oh dear, Lucy Corrander has really started something for me this Spring with her tree following meme… I am “observing” trees everywhere I look now. Not that surprising, I suppose, when Cardiff does have so many – a lot of them dating back to Victorian and Edwardian times.
This time I am featuring some cherry trees (Prunus). I don’t know if it’s (more…)
The Squirrelbasket 