This is small desert rose crystal and part of my ‘collection’. Seems to be a varied one these days including fossils, shells, crystals and geology. I’m also trying new things with backgrounds when taking pictures, so get ready for more bits and pieces with colourful sparkly backgrounds 😉
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A very underrated flower in my opinion. I thought they were weeds for quite some time, but now I know they really aren’t – or at least they are a useful one. Bees love them, and one flower seems to keep giving for quite some time. The plant is mostly edible. The leaves can be used for salads or cooked and eaten like spinach, the flower buds are good in omelets apparently, or you can put the flowers in cakes. And of course if can be turned into Dandelion and Burdoch, which I remember as horrible drink that my mother used to drink and love. I didn’t even know what burdoch looked like until I started typing this and looked it up – another fantastic ‘weed’ that is even more special. I shall try and find some and do a post about that one too.
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Spring is in full swing, slightly held back by this cold snap we are having now, but over the last few weeks the Muscari (Grape hyacinth) has bloomed nicely and started bringing in the bees. I have planted loads more seeds which are all now sprouting so hopefully soon there will be lots of colour in the garden. Some of the seeds are last years poppies, sweet peas and nasturtium I collected and put aside for the following year – and a new pack of bee friendly flowers, so not sure what else will be coming. It’s that exciting time of the growing season!
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It was great to live with a view like this, even if it was just for a short time. Every day the weather threw a different cast of light on it, quite something.
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The variety of these little guys is great, they come in all sorts of colours and between the UK and Spain I have gathered quite a few pics.
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I like this one very much. Not perfect, but pleasing to my eye.
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A strange weather day, there was sun and snow, but here I caught it in a blue sky cloudy phase.
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I have just updated my iStock portfolio and added another 100 (ish) photographs of nature, if you like that sort of thing 😉
https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/portfolio/katrinawicks
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Some more abstract oil drops. It was pretty cool to get a tri coloured effect in the background. Turns out using books with different covers helped 🙂
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So, I have found another two cherry pips sprouting. That now makes for 4 on the go, two saplings and two seedlings. My orchard has begun 😀
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