Showing posts with label tiny flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tiny flowers. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Cuttlebrook Flowers

Mama bird still on her nest so we take the dogs out for some peace and quiet.
I notice the field is suddenly dotted with dandelions or as Miss E used to say : daddy lions.
Flowers are ''on my mind'': teaching a crocheted flowers class tomorrow evening in Henley.
Still not quite able to focus the fancy camera foisted upon me as a birthday present last year...
Blosson trees in the hardens bordering Cuttlebrook.

And the last of the tulips too.
Such glorious blossom, it looks like fluffy pom poms on a tree from afar.
Wild flowers too, the more I look the more I see.




Even the nettles have started flowering. And the first of the bluebells. All these photos were taken on the same walk within a half hour of each other. On 11th April.




The first leaves of the silver birch and a grand flowering hawthorn.

Wild garlic I believe- the white above.

a carpet of forget-me-nots.



Borage as well, we used to have these in our Pimms on a summer's day?( from our garden)




Mama blackbird gone for some foraging, will be back with a worm soon.


,, Kids had fun in a den in the garden all day. Good old fashioned fun!

Friday, 20 March 2009

Dachshund diaries day 20 weaning starts...

Starting with a little brooch on a card for my mum which I made Wednesday night.....

We have decided we'll make Mother's day special for Pippa on Sunday!!!

As these puppies are now walking and that's a few days early as they are expected to stand by 3 weeks old- tomorrow- according to the books....
And they are licking each other which is in the photo above but he moved his head so you can't see the pink pupppy tongue- hence I thought we could start weaning them to give Pippa a break.

Well there was Jack who was NOT remotely interested. Kept yawning and only wanted to go back to sleep. Lucy had a quick lick at the mush on my finger but she wasn't keen either.
And then there was Tom who has only put on about 10 g ( vs 100g by the other two- EACH) today : he wriggled and wriggled and made a lot of noise but he liked the mush, ate several finger tip fulls and even licked it off a teaspoon! I was so busy feeding that we didn't get any photos of it yet.
Below is a boxfull of puppies who were moved temporarily so we can clean the pen and replace the newspapers. The ''rug'' got washed today so they were skating on the papers again: stand- ssslip, slide, stand, slip slide, stand oooh this is sssso ssslippery and frustrating!!!

The box is 45 cm by 28 cm to give you a sense of scale and they weigh almost 4kg alltogether now. Can you spot who lies where?
And finally for today a few pictures of Tom but as he was so very wriggly they are not quite in focus! Didn't use a flash either due to his eyes being open now and they are definately seeing !


He's also having some more weetabix'n puppy milk mush from a finger/ hand- lick lick lick.











And he was soooo adventurous he had a go at a white t-shirt too.