Into August, this year is certainly flying by! It is still very dry, although there was a little rain one night the gardens and countryside is still parched. I some how managed two visits to Arne in a week! The first was because I had to go to Wareham to take some pictures that I…
On Saturday morning the 28th July I walked down to Bere Marsh and the Trailway with Tilly early in the morning. It had rained a little during the night, at last our long dry very hot spell had broken. I hadn’t really thought about seeing the resident Barn Owl but I shouldn’t have been surprised…
I was doing some gardening before it got too hot one morning and I was distracted by a Painted Lady Butterfly on the Statice flowers, I had to get my camera to get a picture and so I spent a couple of hours watching all the visitors in the garden as they went about collecting…
I’ve put a picture of the moon on here as we were expecting to see an eclipse and a Red Blood moon on Friday 27th July but it wasn’t to be as our heatwave decided to break on the Friday and the clouds rolled in making it impossible to see, I had taken a picture…
On Thursday 19th January we were still in the middle of the heatwave. Getting a bit fed up with staying indoors because of the heat I decided to take an early morning trip to Martin Down. Martin Down Nature Reserve is a large area of unspoiled chalk downland just off of the main Salisbury Blandford…
