Mostly Digital Photography

The gardener found this rose coming off a bush in the garden and brought it in for me for today’s photo. It won’t last long, but it smells wonderful.

There are still several very fine flowers on the pond. Bad news: I’ve been to the pond 3 times today, and each time I only saw 4 ducklings, so I’m afraid that we have lost one.

I was treated to a visit to Ashwood Nurseries this morning, and had a wonderful time. Choosing some photos for here was a real problem – I even managed a cat photo!

On Saturday afternoon I had a wonderful view of a Lancaster(?) flying very low over the house, but I was completely unprepared for it and didn’t get a photo. On Sunday afternoon I was unprepared again, but when I heard the sound I grabbed a camera and manage on photo. It has been the annual Black Country weekend, and I guess that this was part of the celebration.

The church was open for the Black Country Weekend, though we didn’t have any visitors while I was there. However, this character was on display – one I’d not seen before.

The new cafe in the park has been open for a couple of days now, and I visited it both yesterday and today. While riding round the park I found 2 green woodpeckers feeding (on ants presumably) near the lily pond. I couldn’t get very close to them, so the pictures are extreme crops. I did manage some shots with both birds in the same frame, but they were not particularly good, so I’ve chosen a couple of images of a single bird instead. They stayed feeding on the pathway for at least 15 minutes, before a dog bounded up and sent them off.