Posts Tagged ‘painted lady butterfly’

4 November 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman STOPPING FOR A WEE

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I should look up at Melbury against the blue and white sky and feel my heart skip a beat at it’s high-rise beauty. In may ways indeed I do. But I feel a sense of sadness too because, on it’s lowest slopes the grass is an artificially enhanced luminous green, fenced off with spiky wire [...]

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28 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A MORNING AFTER RAIN, PAINTED LADY SUMMER

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

28 May 2009 A MORNING AFTER RAIN What a lovely change from recent weeks to rise and shine on the morning after a day of rain. Plants are looking better for it; greener, lusher, more full of the sap that flows and translocates the stuff of life. The air feels fresher. Activity on the plot [...]

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