Martine recently returned with some of her sister’s home grown [W:Hypergiant] tomatoes which are a little larger than mine :-/
Garden
Dragonfly: almost emerged
We spotted a dragonfly trying to emerge from its nymph skin but the nymph had not attached itself securely to a reed….
…and so it struggled to free itself…
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Once freed it sat recuperating for a while; so I stopped filming and it immediately took off into the summer sky…. somedays nothing seems to go right.
Dragonfly nymph
I apologise to those searching for the Dragonfly nymph pictures from last year as they seem to have become lost in the move to this dot net site. I did spot an empty one today…
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Feed me!
The garden continues to feed the slugs, birds and assorted ravenous beasts. Yesterday evening…
and this morning…
Pond Life (part one)
In the murky depths beneath the lily pads lives all manner of creatures but an hour’s worth of video only revealed a newt (or possibly two) passing by momentarily…
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The second visit was an hour after the first with the sun overhead hence the golden hue.