Nature

By Rhiannonw

Plant life, animal life, and happenings

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A gorse seed

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 08 Mar 2012

Popping pod propels the seed, each has little tasty ‘lump’: ant out foraging to feed those within its nest, can clasp, – jaws like claws can grip and grasp
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Ants

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 14 Oct 2011

The extraordinary little ant with tunnels underground, or linking up the many rooms within a leafy mound. Their heads are big with strong sharp jaws, their waists are very tight;
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Beauty on a Dungheap

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 15 Aug 2012

Bobbing flight, dips out of sight, and up – ‘peep bo!’ then duck below. Perching on the pile of muck, wagging tail perfect stance to give a chance for photo-shot.
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Bird-feeder Drama

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Jan 2013

Big fat pigeon sees birds upon the feeder, stalks around below like the avian leader, poking round for pickings, quick to espy ‘crumbs from the table’ when they float from high.
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Car journey, Sat 2/2/12

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 11 Feb 2012

The air is sharp and bitter, and icy branches glitter. The dome above pale blue and clear and cold, well-sugared views around the car unfold, gaunt trees reach up like scratchy brooms to sweep,
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Cloudy Cameos (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 25 Aug 2012

Mystery of misty moisture: shadows scurry, shower flurry, filmy fluid falls to earth fuelling food’s future growth. ******* Herringbone and candy floss – patterns picturesque across
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Conkers

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 01 Oct 2011

Conker, lying on the ground, are you waiting to be found – while you’re hard and shiny still – by a little boy who will hoard, delight in you, but may bore a hole so he can play
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Creeping past the equinox

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 21 Mar 2012

Greening hawthorn, lush thick meadow, willow tinged with greenish-yellow, from the earth now leaves emerging softly-edged mosaic-like covering for the bank, as yet anonymous,
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Creepy-crawlies

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 24 Oct 2011

I do like bugs*, and snails and slugs, but slugs are slimey to hold in your hand, and bugs are tickley, and may defend themselves, by a nip or sting,
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Cultivate or Strangulate (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 20 Feb 2012

(of gardens, real and allegorical)
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Daffodil Bands

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 17 Mar 2012

… so successfully announcing …
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Essential Sunshine and Showers (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 15 Jun 2013

Lying, listening to the rain, welcome, restful soft refrain. Water falling, filtering down and filling spaces in the soil: seeds soon swelling … reaching for the sun …
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Is there a moral … ? (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 03 Jul 2013

A fable lazy lizard lived in the valley of the Lugg; too lazy to reach out to catch a nice nuitritious bug. He grew more weak, less slick and sleek – when danger was perceived
Humour
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The Heatwave (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 20 Jul 2013

It melted the tarmac, and buckled the rails, it dried up the pond, but the well never fails, it bleached out the lawn, left the farmers forlorn until a breath of a breeze
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The Times they are A-Changing (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 29 Apr 2013

… The stuffy indoor atmosphere, and sluggish thoughts and tension escape into the stratosphere and clear the comprehension …
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Trickling trick

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 05 Jun 2013

Life’s biochemistry, infinite mystery: but we hear imaginative history of decay in reverse, arising complexity: ‘So it has been’, some say – a thing never seen:
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Disasters

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 Mar 2011

One day there won't be any more disasters
Spiritual
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The Male Mandarin Duck!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 18 Mar 2011

A colourful drake!
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Moschatel, or Townhall Clock (Adoxa moschatellina)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 28 Mar 2011

Tiny ‘Townhall Clock’: pale, slight and delicate, each face a duplicate, – miniature so rarely seen, dainty structure, tender green, flowers arranged on slender stalk
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Is it a butterfly or … ?

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 31 Mar 2011

Is it a butterfly or … is it a moth?
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Honey Ants

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 06 Apr 2011

waiting until their needed!
Nature
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Lady’s Smock (Milk-maids or Cuckoo-flower)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 11 Apr 2011

Gangly stems on damp clay-ey verge, sun-bleached smocks like a milky surge of many small flowers, lilac-pale; Milk-maids wave in a soggy vale. Lower leaf-stalks with leaflets rounded,
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Primroses

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 15 Apr 2011

Clusters of smudges pale yellowy-cream, dappled on banks and in woods, in between the trees, on the ground, soft and delicate smiles, rosettes of fresh leaves, climate gentler awhiles.
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Seashore

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 28 May 2011

— busy land of extremes
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Mysterious Lichens

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 31 May 2011

Fluffy tassels smoky-green …
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The Great Wren Escape

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 18 Jun 2011

courtesy of Springwatch 2011
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The Limitations of Science to study the past

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Jul 2011

Science is investigation of recorded information, experimenting, testing theories, giving thought to awkward queries, and alternative suggestions, never jumping to conclusions.
Miscellaneous
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Seals

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 12 Jul 2011

Smooth and shy, and hard to spy peeping from the water. Watch them gliding, swimming by – agile under water. When they leave the sea they heave – pull with each front flipper,
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Queen Wasp's thoughts … during early May

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 28 Jul 2011

I slept through the cold in a snug little nook. I woke, drank some nectar, then flew for a look, – to scrape scraps of wood from a post or a pole,
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The Great Delusion

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 19 Oct 2011

“Everyone believes it! – it must be true!” “Scientists have proven it!” – No!, that they cannot do! some may feel that it fits quite well,
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Quirky Meadow Saffron

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 10 Dec 2011

(seen, Aug 2009 Merbach Hill)
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Snowdrop

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 09 Jan 2012

Bulb which grows when cold – two spears protrude and elongate, – the year’s first noticeable growth from still, apparent death of winter's chill. A single stem extending soon,
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Pussy Willows

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 10 Feb 2012

Slim and silky, silvery slippers, furry-ears peep, pushing open brown bud scales on Sallow branches, satin catkin flowers ripen. Those on male shrubs soon show yellow –
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The purple emperor butterfly

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 28 Feb 2012

The purple emperor butterfly lives in the canopy, quite high; no flowers up there with nectar sweet, so what is there for it to eat? When aphids suck the sugary sap
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The Weasel (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 24 Mar 2012

based on a Welsh poem called ‘Y Gwenci’ (The Weasel) by R Williams Parry, that I liked very much (content and poetry) in my childhood. I stood transfixed (not knowing I was watched)
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Lesser Celandine

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Shining yellow celandines (sun reflected as it shines): mass of stars on hearts deep-green (lovely background of the scene – leaves with softly wavy edges,
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Springing Back to Life — nature (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 31 Mar 2012

a patchwork collage through spring, from verse already posted
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From a window

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 18 Apr 2012

screeching kerfuffle …
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Woodland blue

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 10 May 2012

Sea of vivid blue, trees above with new leaves emerging through swelling buds; and cream windflower clusters seem foaming on the swells – woodland flooded with bluebells.
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Evening Light after Rain

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 17 May 2012

Glittering evening sunlight casts banding shadows, stark contrasts – golden gleam, and flowers vivid. Earlier, skies were sombre, livid – hours of drizzle, torrents rushing,
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Rabbits! (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 26 May 2012

Unwelcome explosion! a plague population: they ate the fruit, and nibbled each shoot, they cropped the corn, great swathes were shorn: the farmer’s annoyed, his labour destroyed.
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Floods

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 14 Jun 2012

River rushing, water rises, flood-weight pushing, – power surprises, moving cars and caravans; tree comes down, nestlings drown, … but towns in turmoil …
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Garden Bindweed

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 19 Jun 2012

It winds, and binds, entangling, and strangling … insidiously, inconspicuously …
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The Wood-Wide Web

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 10 Jul 2012

No world-wide net to gather ‘facts’ … inside the soil unseen it spreads
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Harebells

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 10 Aug 2012

Splashes of harebells waft and sway – sky-blue skirts in the grass at play! Deep-red foxgloves stand erect – sentinels the troop protect. Vivid in the evening light,
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Silver swish

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 15 Sep 2012

Glimpse of silver, swish and skitter, fish-like darting, wriggling slither; little harmless insect flitter, – do you cringe, or jump or shiver? Disliked lodgers little matter
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Night noises (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 29 Sep 2012

With a sniffle and a snuffle, and a sudden snort, the silences of darkness are rare and short, there’s a giggle and a gurgle, and a low long growl, a hiss, a hum, a murmur,
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The Skylarks Rise Again

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 05 Nov 2012

When farmers sowed their crops in spring the skylarks were abundant – … untroubled by a growing crop, or mowing chop, or fox or stoat, they’re nestled on …
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Tree-line, rewindings

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Nov 2012

from Pentathlon Leaning bent upon his stick, he gazed upon his tree, stark, – struck by lightning a while, now gnarled, its history in his mind unfurled …
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Living Tapestry

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 24 Nov 2012

From lowland lake to moorland bleak, in wood and hedge, high mountain peak, on roadside verge, and rocky shore, through cracking concrete factory floor (disused), and shielded city nook:
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Sudden Snow

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 19 Jan 2013

silently, softly, smothering, enveloping, quieting, soothing, hushing, confining all of the noise and the rushing. Flakes cease from falling, children erupting – chance of rare playground,
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The calm after the storm (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 11 Mar 2013

A whirling storm brought battering harm. A sudden stillness, quaking calm – glittering drops of rain left hanging, tiled rooftops askew, bits dangling; and tentatively emerging
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Watching Raindrops

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 17 Apr 2013

Plip! plop! watch the water drop … … sight and sounds that soothe … circles interlocking, mesmerising dreamy rocking, lulling lullaby.
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City Traces (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 25 Aug 2013

The nest of a falcon, pigeons galore, squirrels collecting and burying their store. But we miss the high hills, and the countryside sound, and pine...
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Autumn Hush and Dash (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 05 Oct 2013

Summer sward now lies forlorn neglected, soggy autumn lawn, mounds of rotting apples, slushy on the ground, a bounty, mushy (crawling insects,...
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Wood Sorrel

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 22 Nov 2013

Early spring wood floor-cover: trifoliate leaves, each leaflet heart-shaped – unlike clover sometimes fold along their middle (shape pyramidal), at...
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Losses and Gains: Clywedog* (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 10 Feb 2014

*pronounced Cluh- wed - og a valley flooded in 1967 by construction of the tallest mass concrete dam in Britain Lost farms, lost homes, a harrowing...
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Xerocoles* (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 25 Feb 2014

*(a term some seem to use for animals adapted to live in the desert – with the heat and scarcity of water) … The desert lizard goes, too fast to burn its toes …
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Slowly emerging, January to March

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 04 Mar 2014

Bleached and scruffy verges, scrawny, thorny, de-fleshed hedges; a flush and blush of green suffuses the roadside edges, while the hedges’ twigs grow...
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Cowslip

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 11 Apr 2014

Little standard lamps wave softly, tiny chandeliers, loftily bearing golden, glowing tops buttery pashmina cups; motorway’s monotonous verges...
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Visiting Slimbridge

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 09 Jun 2014

[birds, ducks, swans … and …!]
Nature
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Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 13 Aug 2014

spectators eyes inhale the sight … and ‘oohs’ exhaled from inspiration, and ‘aahs’ of awe – lungs’ expiration …
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Nuthatch

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 15 Oct 2014

Stubby black dagger beak, stuck to sooty bandit eyestrip on head which merges with its body – elongated bulb-like bird, plump, sleek, steely-blue...
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Snake's-Head Fritillary

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Oct 2014

Flocks of wafting chequered bells mauve or white – and on the latter’s dress the chequered pattern lies a watermark impress. Abundant, when in spring...
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A monkey nut drama

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 22 Dec 2014

The squirrels were busy kept coming to bury monkey nuts found far away. A bird table’s wealth embezzled with stealth? the drama was watched day by...
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Long-tailed Tits, or …

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 03 Mar 2015

Hedge Mumruffin , Fuffit , pinkish fluffy ball Long-tailed pie , Poke Pudding , twittering, chattering call. Acrobatic flits, dart around the shrubs...
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‘Oh to be in England, now that spring is there’ (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 07 Mar 2015

says the swallow …
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Hedgehogs

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 28 Mar 2015

Fat little snufflers searching through leaf litter …
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Dull-day Lamps

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 30 Mar 2015

Daffodils are glowing though the sky is glowering. I’m glad that they don’t close …
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Morphing Treescapes

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 16 Apr 2015

The view of trees so gaunt and grey along the road, is giving way to softening tinge of green transforming … … until we see fresh beauty in autumn colours … and silhouettes on winter skyline …
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Marsh Marigold

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 Apr 2015

Splash of giant ‘buttercups’ – King Cups bold, on the dark and boggy bank, glossy Marigold. … blazen in the sunshine – loud contagious laughter.
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A ‘Mayfly’ Day … (IP)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 04 May 2015

– early evening swarm above the stream – mating mayflies shimmer; with the setting sun eggs descend, mayfly die, and are no more until … nymphs hatch...
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Prickles Please (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 26 Sep 2015

The last hedgehog in Herefordshire ? … only 1 in 5 people in the UK have ever seen a hedgehog in their garden. No wonder – 95% lost since the 1950s...
Humour
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A Bleak Interlude

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 16 Dec 2015

Dark, bleak day – drizzle and downpour, nipping out-door … but tomorrow … ?
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Fly Free For a Day!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 09 Jan 2016

… free from all that pressure for a short and flight-y future:
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Flowing … (Poetry Monthly)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Mar 2016

The water seeps and flows through earth and rocky cleft, down narrow gullies flows, through fields meanders, grows …
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Puffin's puffling

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 02 Apr 2016

Eyes of surprise, a freak-striped beak can’t squeak or speak with those fish in its beak – stowed in a row with their heads in a fringe for the...
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Stumpy Toddy (Wren)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 06 Apr 2016

phenomenal the sound … huddle in numbers to protect from killing cold, by cuddle
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Dumped Gold

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Apr 2016

(seen yesterday, when parking behind a Care Home) Neglected, thrown down out the back: grubby, dumped, forgotten sack, bathed in sunshine, soaked by...
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The Green Blush

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 05 May 2016

Roadside curtains, dusty dry, of tangled trees – when driving by through March they still seemed spent and sere, but now we’ve watched green blush...
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Drizzle and Dandelions

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 May 2016

Driving in the drizzle, dripping trees obscured by mizzle, road awash, and frequent splash, sodden grass and swirls of rain – wipers swish on ‘fast’...
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The Handkerchief Tree*

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 30 May 2016

Surprise amongst the trees – waving hankies fluttering in the breeze – no artificial ‘prayer’ flags these – doves shine shimmering in the sun? …
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Springwatch!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 25 Jun 2016

… wave your wings to say, ‘Goodbye’ …
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The Old Oak Chair

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 26 Jul 2016

… the hidden, tunnelled maze of subways down below.
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All aboard! the country bus

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 07 Sep 2016

[The BBC slow real-time country bus ride] Lovely slow ride, we seem to glide … no dash, no tension, no road rage, no rush.
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Two mornings

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 13 Sep 2016

[first morning:] Veil of mizzle, myopic vision, hemmed in, dozy … oppressing, depressing. [next morning:] Shell-blue sky, all’s a-glitter … de-stressing.
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Watching, not touching!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 15 Sep 2016

I do like bugs*, and snails and slugs, but slugs are slimey to hold in your hand, and bugs are tickley, and may defend themselves, by a nip or sting...
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Autumn Tingeing

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 13 Oct 2016

Sunshine glints on autumn tints:
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Autumn Colours (i)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 31 Oct 2016

Green sugar factories now dismantled with approaching cold …
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The ‘Icecoming’

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 15 Nov 2016

Tall-shaders shed … and floating feather-rain …
Nature
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Frost and Sun

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 30 Nov 2016

…their frosty shadows shrink
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Fog!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 09 Dec 2016

A milky shroud, damp cloud, muting, hushing, smudgy trees emerge …I feel enclosed …
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On Winter Bleakness

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 27 Dec 2016

A sodden, dreary, weary gloomy day; cloud-ceiling low and leaden …. decorations delicate, sublime … breathtaking sunset fire …
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Earth Colours

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Jan 2017

Dark brown, white … green up … spattered, patterned red, yellow, pink, blue … yellowing … (a burst of red, rust, gold) … earth-brown … the next green flourish.
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Hope in the poison

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 09 Feb 2017

(Emblem of hope … poison … hope)
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Awakening!

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 Mar 2017

Stark, dry brown trees and hedges: a warm green blush spreads, gradually suffuses – astonishing expanding leaves unfold, push, squirt from tiny lumps...
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Spring has sprung (at last)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 27 Mar 2017

Daylight lengthening, sunlight strengthening, weakening winter’s grip, but temperatures dip … shout spring has sprung!
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Early April Flowers

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 07 Apr 2017

White wood anemones, bright-wide in the sun sparkling sprinkled on the woodland floor, while bluebells prepare their blue spring haze; …
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Short Evening Stroll

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 12 Apr 2017

Sharp air, evening sunlight …
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Variety

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 02 Jun 2017

Not too cold, and not too hot, breath of cool air when we’ve had a lot of beating sun for days and days – gardens need rain for the flowers to blaze...
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Ch-ch-ch-ch

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 12 Jun 2017

Chuffed at change in chiff-chaffs chicks … (based on a comment by Michaela Strachan on Springwatch this year)
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Evening Song

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 24 Jun 2017

Rich, deep trilling, chuckles, gurgles twirling …
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“The Hush of the Snow”

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 27 Jun 2017

[by James Forsyth] Snow-laden sky, all still, soft chill.
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Soothing

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 08 Jul 2017

A quiet, sheltered, hidden glade with dappled light, and ample shade; in days of scorching summer heat, the soothing green a filtering screen of...
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Waving Across Space

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 10 Aug 2017

Mysterious waves so energetic
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Reaching

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 16 Aug 2017

(photo 1) A stricken tree, its bones survive – grey, honed they reach, and taper high to poke the blue, like twisting roots upon the sky.
Nature
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Reflective whimsey

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 24 Aug 2017

(photo 2) Autumn colours in the pond, high blue screens the fish beyond, swimming in the depth below; will the sky soon overflow down the weir,...
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Impediments to reaching the treasure

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 22 Sep 2017

Thorny tentacles entrap feet or legs to tangle, trip … little juicy treasure perch just beyond precarious reach.
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Micromys minutus

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 30 Oct 2017

Bright bundle of gingery fur climbing, clambering dextrously up and down and through the tall grass and reed stalks …
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Evening Sky

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 09 Nov 2017

High sky gold touched fluff …
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Autumn Beech Leaves

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 10 Nov 2017

… shining beech trees …
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The humble …

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 15 Nov 2017

Slithery, wriggly soil aerators, food for blackbirds, badgers, raptors …
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Oak Apple

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 24 Nov 2017

Oak apple rosy, nursery cosy: wasp larva fed free by host oak tree.
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weather whatever

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 25 Nov 2017

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, whatever the weather, wherever …
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Winter Wonderland

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 11 Dec 2017

Trudging through the snow – like royal icing fresh – sinking softly at each step … will they have to stay the night? will replacements reach? …
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Winter Wonderland (2) Sunshine

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 12 Dec 2017

Blue sky and sunshine, soft snow glitters; warm light, air cold. Walking into town, hard-packed pavement centres – safer foothold on the snowy edges...
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"Goblin Gold"

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 15 Dec 2017

(or 'Schistostega pennata' ) A disused rabbit hole – what will it hold? about a foot inside, maybe some – goblin gold! In semi-darkness, shines a...
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Morning mist lifts

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 11 Jan 2018

misty … mist rising … sunshine sparkles
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Brown February

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Feb 2018

Brown etched trees scratch the grey, scattered brown sere seeds still hang suspended here and there; balls of mistletoe, coloured greenish-yellow by...
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Mesmerised

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 03 Mar 2018

[This is a revision of a piece I posted some years ago, and based on a Welsh poem called ‘Y Gwenci’ (The Weasel) by R Williams Parry, that I liked very much (content and poetic skill) in my childhood.] “I stood transfixed, just stared ahead, I could not move my gaze or tremble, shake …
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Growth Spurt

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 24 Mar 2018

Springing forward to the sun … embryonic leaves enlarging through protective scales emerging from their winter hide-away now they seek the light of day …
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Trumpeting

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 31 Mar 2018

Bare bones stand lifeless, gaunt and sere – the wood is dark and drear. … a yellow blast is trumpeting from sparkling gold that spring is back –
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Spring Yellows

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 14 Apr 2018

Even when the day is dark primroses clump on the bank, softly smile, and deep in the wood by the muddy stream marsh marigolds glow a deep butter...
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Dandy Lions

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 May 2018

Dandy lions in a crowd, golden laughter lines the road; yellow pom-poms dot the lawn … ‘See this garden, Mummy, can’t we these lovely flowers plant?'
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Living with …

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 14 May 2018

We get armour-plated armadillos, miniature; at night-time slugs find squeeze-through aperture – stretching, slithering with slimy, shiny trails – ugh...
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May Sky Melody

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 30 May 2018

Burbling song resounds around the dome bubbling, erupting exultantly two little lungs breathe in, pour out in synchronous duet bursting, echoing over...
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Number Spellings!

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 02 Jun 2018

I oneder …
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Treasured Mud Oasis

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Jun 2018

Turning vehicles have lowered little carpark’s centre, scoured – heavy rain brings spreading puddle, slowly shrinking to the middle – irritation, but...
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Identification – non-native?

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 18 Jun 2018

Seeds to attract nectar-loving wildlife … search our many flora books … maybe?
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Brightness without burning

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Sitting sheltered in the shade, Leafy filters cool the skin, soothe the eyes, and thoughts within …
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From a Nonet of Eggs …

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 30 Jun 2018

Nine little nestlings, beaks open wide –
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Our golden, fiery ball

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 27 Jul 2018

Boldly arcing across the blue, rivers a-glitter, sparkle anew, colours awakened, vivid the scene (– moonlight just paints with a silver sheen), rays...
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Of Limpets & the Ebb and Flow of Stress

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 04 Aug 2018

(Littoral life) … inter-tidal ecoZone – metaphorically
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Storm

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 14 Aug 2018

Rain ground-pounding lashing, lightning flashing, booming sound of thunder crashing – winds howling gales bashing rifting, lifting; water standing...
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Inter-tidal life

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 29 Aug 2018

This was written for my children long ago, to try to capture the underwater scene change. I posted it some time ago as simply ‘Seashore’, but thought it was worth reposting for the August topic of Poetry monthly.
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Temperature drop

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 12 Sep 2018

countryside and fashion
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Quince

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 04 Oct 2018

Misshapen shiny pear with clinging fluffy hair, bright yellow, perfume sweet – too hard and tart to eat raw – flesh cut and chopped cooks, mushes...
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Autumn Splash

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 12 Oct 2018

A final fling from flavonoids, and …
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Cosmos

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 23 Oct 2018

A single bloom within a brilliant patch, a single bloom the eye to catch, and draw to see the delicate shape of each pink petal, hued around the...
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Chirpy, Cheeky …

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 27 Oct 2018

Cheeky chipmunk’s cheek-pouch cache … bright-eyed fat-face packing, stacking winter stock.
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3 Wintry Haiku

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 05 Nov 2018

wilted world … friends foregather… Snow, softly …
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Cywydd [Cuh-with] Form, Wintery

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Nov 2018

Skies scythed by trees skeletal …
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Bare beauty

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 07 Dec 2018

Trees with costume windswept, lost, stretch their branches sculpted, – bare and beautiful, upthrust, from grounded trunks, well-rooted – earth-bound branches …
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Pitch Black

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 18 Dec 2018

How often have you ‘seen’ full darkness of the night? … running, stumbling, helpless, humbling …
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Avocet

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 02 Feb 2019

So elegant …
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Snowdrops

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 04 Feb 2019

Pure pearls emerge from winter’s earth, out of decay and wilting drabness, dearth of colour, life, growth …
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wintering in warm Britain …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Feb 2019

Turnstones – not shown in photo!
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Seasons Connect

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 12 Feb 2019

… The sunshine weak … ’til seeds awake … the seeds awake …
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The fruit of the elm

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

That favourite, lovely shade of lemon-green patterning an end of April shell-blue sky, pale posy bunches, taut tissue coin-wings …
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Speedy Connections

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 28 Feb 2019

… so much in the blink of an eye, or a flicker of thought.
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Mistletoe

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 05 Mar 2019

Orchard trees bare of their leaves … with these tangled green orbs we now see suspended dressing the winter skeletons; these squatter plants with …
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Unseasonal Hail!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 05 Apr 2019

Under fire from pelting ice granules, like gravel chucked, crunching underfoot – soon melts, sun shines, briefly.
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Golden Blast at the Roadside

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 20 Apr 2019

Sudden spillage on the verges, orchard, lawns – molten gold explosions, splashes, brilliant swarms: dandelions’ moment, reflecting sudden sunshine...
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Bog Brilliance

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 23 May 2019

Dark and dank and waterlogged – … secluded haunt of otter shy, sheltered from intrusions idle – sunshine flag gives indication, … no invitation to wander pleasantly up yonder … enjoy my lemon brilliance …
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Ethiopian de/re-forestation

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 14 Jun 2019

They cleared the forests to grow more food … Arboreal ‘islands’ remain … believing they are stewards of God’s creation … maybe soon ‘islands’ will expand to link up once more
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Black Taff – FreshTaff

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 12 Sep 2019

early 1980s On the bridge high over the river Taff a little girl drops her hankie, by mistake – down, down – it floats ahead (no Pooh-sticks...
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Autmn's faces

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 27 Sep 2019

Autumn – a time of change and chills. Sometimes a glowing summer glimpse … sometimes a sodden grey …
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Harvest!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 25 Oct 2019

Apples galore, trees shaken to pour fall flood …
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November Bloom

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 04 Nov 2019

Appealing petals– delicate curves, blended shading, soft shapes, bloomed touch-texture.
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Robin’s Pincushion

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Nov 2019

beautfiul colourful rose bedeguar gall … 'save whallop' …
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An Obliging Treecreeper

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 11 Nov 2019

What’s that skittering up the tree? – brown as the bark, so hard to see. … – it seemed to patiently wait until we were suited and done – then …
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Chill

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 17 Dec 2019

Roadside shorn of colour, bleak, waiting for the sun to break through the misty veil to cheer, waiting …
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Storm

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 15 Feb 2020

Whooshing, whirling. pounding wind, rushing powerfully, wild, tearing branches, tiles, and pushing, loosening roots and toppling, crushing; rainfall...
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Dennis in Herefordshire

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 20 Feb 2020

[Sunday, Monday] Dennis passing, rainfall less – though …
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Trumpeting!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 02 Mar 2020

They’re out! a golden shout …
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Chlorophyll Green

By Rhiannonw on Sat, 07 Mar 2020

Capturing sunlight the leaves to power their multiplication for shade from shower or heat of noon-light intense, so bright: the soft, soothing screen...
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Signs of Spring 1)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 23 Mar 2020

Bursting out of tiny bud, stretching up tinged red, greening in the sunlight – power for growth.
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Signs of Spring 2)

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 24 Mar 2020

Hardly noticeable, tiny flowers: if the sawflies don’t arrive and munch (none came last year, so hopefully no cocoons in the soil – must remember to...
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Signs of Spring 3)

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 26 Mar 2020

Even in those little tended, sun shines on the garden flower bursts, and in the dead wood floors scattered primroses peep.
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Signs of Spring 4)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 27 Mar 2020

New life resting, nourishment close by, – or gamboling with the other newborn, zestful infants thrilling with their energy, and thus strengthening...
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Signs of Spring 5)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Magnolia by street light. So strange those waxy, marble tulip-like-orbs delicate, easily spoilt by frost, that emerge from strange buds on leafless...
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Signs of Spring 6)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 01 Apr 2020

The gentle greening of the weeping willow by the industrial site, spiky catkins hang too, hardly noticed among the trailing leafy stems.
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Signs of Spring 7)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 03 Apr 2020

Star-like white flowers of blackthorn, sloe, sprinkled, sparkling on leafless hedge branches; greening of hawthorn, May-tree, with tight-flower-bud...
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Signs of Spring 8)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Ground Ivy, (not really an ivy!) the leaves always there creeping in the leaf litter, (go reddish brown in strong sunlight) but studded with such...
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Signs of Spring 9)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 22 Apr 2020

Graceful ‘greyhound’ stretching twigs, firm, sooty buds – late to open – before the leaves appear, see first the bursting flowers’ purple froth, and...
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Signs of Spring 10)

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 24 Apr 2020

Day’s Eye: One of the earliest to respond to the turn of the seasons, it’s beauty undervalued, bright white stars glitter in the sunshine, setting...
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Signs of Spring 11)

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 29 Apr 2020

Promise of berries for winter red, for feeding the cold-weather birds, but some will be picked with their prickly leaves – broad waxy leaves for...
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Aaron’s Rod (Mullein)

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 15 Jun 2020

Striking spike shoots up from the woolly furry star-like pile of leaves on the wasteland floor … surprise and laughter among the scrub and stones!
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Unmown ‘lawns’ – plant conglomeration

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 24 Jun 2020

Golden ‘Cat’s Ears’ flourishing, where drought and soil unnourishing has left the grass short, yellowing … but on the other lawn, abundance, of variety – self-heal, cinquefoil and clover daisies, moss …
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Well-connected

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 20 Jul 2020

Two legs that carry me around, two arms … my eyes say, ‘Run!’ and legs get the message, and even …
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Film in the night sky

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 12 Aug 2020

[from our garden, north Herefordshire 11/8/20] A realm lights up in the sky momentarily, between cloud mountains: gone in a flash, but reappearing...
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The answer to ‘nature deficit disorder’

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 21 Sep 2020

out into free therapy, and don't deprive children
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Dog’s Mercury

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 26 Nov 2020

Emerging through the littered leaves of the woodland floor …
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Wild Rose …

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Dec 2020

pink blush of beauty climbing the hedges … fragile, fleeting ….
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Out of safety to please

By Rhiannonw on Wed, 20 Jan 2021

Cosy bulbs lie safe below, spikes extend … white drop droops to shine and shiver …
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Transformation!

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 25 Jan 2021

Tired, muddy woods and gardens dead leaves rotting, brown stems wilting, cloud oppressing daylight weak: we’re glad of warmth in bright within...
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River in Spate

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 12 Feb 2021

Downpour falling river filling spilling tumbling … the ocean vast at last.
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Contrast focussing thought

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 18 Mar 2021

If we hadn’t sat though winter drear would the snowdrops rouse such cheer? Would the …
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White stars and meadow bells

By Rhiannonw on Mon, 19 Apr 2021

Woodland stars … Rich yellow cuplets …Fairy-skirt cowbells mauve …
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Hawthorn

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 03 Jun 2021

White May bouquet, tumbling in the hedge, pattern delicate, exquisite: white petals, pale green centres, red anther spots, (sometimes the petals rich...
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