PhotoReflect

click photo to enlarge The seasons impose a regular routine on the gardener. Three seasons of lawn cutting with a peak in mid-summer is so...

click photo to enlarge We popped into Upton-upon Severn in Worcestershire recently and found the small, riverside town had been taken ove...

click photo to enlarge Even though the weather was heavily overcast and dull, and despite the fact that the pelargoniums were only startin...

click photo to enlarge The allotment is slowly disappearing from England's cities, towns and villages. These community gardens were ...

click photo to enlarge "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley" Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet a...

click photo to enlarge Magnolia blossom has the power to delight or disappoint. It appears to be one of those plants that is on the edge ...

click photo to enlarge I have a particular liking for tulips. I haven't counted, but I think they will be the most frequently depicte...

click photo to enlarge Every gardener knows the transformational power of flowers. Grow a clematis, a rose or a wisteria against a dull o...

click photo to enlarge A large, mixed bunch of flowers displayed alongside other vessels and objects, such as these that I saw in the win...

click photo to enlarge I remember reading, a long time ago, the assertion that colours in nature never clash. I have the feeling that it ...

click photo to enlarge After the last two posts I feel the need for colour, and what can be more colourful than the bright yellow petals ...

click photo to enlarge There was a time in my life when I walked, cycled and used public transport exclusively. One of my aims was to to ...

click photo to enlarge The flowers that, I think, feature most on this blog are the tulip and the poppy. I haven't actually counted t...

click photo to enlarge There is a great temptation in photography to shoot beautiful subjects when they are at their most appealing. Land...

click photo to enlarge Pink always seems to me to be the right colour for carnations (Dianthus) because their colloquial name is "...

click photo to enlarge I use a computer diary to keep track of what I'm doing and when. I also use Windows' built in "sticky...

click photo to enlarge "England and America are two countries separated by a common  language". George Bernard Shaw (1856-195...

click photo to enlarge In 2008 I wrote a blog post called "Looking and Seeing" in which I briefly attempted to articulate som...

click photo to enlarge That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into exis...

click photo to enlarge Orange and purple don't rank high in the colours that I like. I prefer orange over purple, but I'll take ...