Category: gardening

More Scrumptious Colours

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A bit of a cold wet day today. I wish that I could get out into the garden to tidy up the leaves, moss and grapes that are scattering the decking.
The birds of course love a free meal but boy are the grapes slippery and make such a mess!
My grape vine, it’s a shame they don’t taste very nice though!
Rowan Berries growing on the fields near the allotment

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Pumpkins

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I have been growing some mini pumpkins for my window display next week and I have managed to salvaged 3! so today I’ve done a quick photoshoot with the cats and a few images from a couple of years ago to get us it the mood for Autumn.

  • All images by SJ Butler Photography
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    (apart from scary pumpkin on tree stump)

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Sunday Sun Salutation

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A bit of seed Yoga

Thought I would show you a little time lapse of my sunflower slowly bending towards the sun. This took over an hour for them to slowly turn to face the sun condensed into 20 seconds!

Let me know if you would like to se more nature videos or any of the places that I visited and photograph.🌱

SUN SALUTATION

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Happy New Year

Happy new Year! Thank you for all your interactions, purchases and donations it is much appreciated. Here’s to 2023 and more travels and photography.

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Tuesday Throwback

Throwback to the beginning of 2022 with pictures from 2016-2021. I hope you have enjoyed the videos through the year?In 2023 I will be creating some more…

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December

You probably know that throughout the year at the beginning of each month I have been creating a short video of photographs, from that month 2016-2021. Here’s…

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Farewell Summer?

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Hi all, well this morning feels rather Autumnal and I’m not the only blogger/nature lover to think so. There is definitely a feel; a chill; a freshness about the air this morning.

There are cobwebs glistening in the early morning sunshine and as I walked down the garden path I could feel them in my face and hair. Anybody who saw me would think I was practicing martial arts as I was chopping at the webs as they touched my face!

My Nasturtiums seem to have started to die off so I’ve been collecting their seeds ready for next year. Also noting where I wouldn’t plant them next year!

Photography – Sue Butler (Camera phone)

The Cabbage White butterfly has also been busy laying eggs on them as well as they have now hatched out into little caterpillars. Good job they aren’t flowering any more! My vegetable patch has not done to well this year either. A few tomatoes, six pumpkins, one courgette and a few potatoes. Although my green beans have done well and their is plenty in the freezer for a few meals.

Sue Butler Photography – Small White Butterfly
Bees loving the Heleniums – Sue Butler Photography

These past few months I have not done a great deal of photography, I’ve not been really inspired. I’m hoping to go the Lake District (but nothing booked) in October as that’s my favourite time of the year for the stunning golden colours and mists…until next time.

Aira Force – Sue Butler Photography

Springtime 🌸

Oh my goodness sorry for not posting for a while! I don’t know where time is going! It’s lovely…

Please help Limpy

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Please help Limpy

Hi, I don’t normally do this but I wonder if you could spare any spare change to help this…

June Lupins

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Serendipity

The natural ability of making desirable discoveries by accident

A term in the 1750s to describe those who ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.
(Noun / Origin: English / ser·en·dip·i·ty)

“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.“

Aliyyah Eniath

As promised I’ve uploaded a few images of the gorgeous Lupins I took the other day. I was going to go to take some this evening (the Golden Hour) but the weather is so rubbish I’ve had to dig out my ‘big’ coat and my socks! What has happened to the warm sunny weather we’ve been having of late? Hopefully the weather looks better and I’ll got some images of the fields & flowers.

Golden hour photography

The golden hour in photography is widely seen as the best time of day to shoot. At golden hour the light is warm and soft – enhancing landscapes, flowers etc (more on how to shoot coming soon).

Lupin magic

Look at the stunning colours

Beautiful light

Golden Buttercups

Yellow Buttercups

The term lupine, from the Latin for “wolf,” derives from the mistaken belief that these plants depleted, or “wolfed,” minerals from the soil. The contrary is true, however; lupines aid soil fertility by fixing nitrogen from the air in a soil form useful for other plants.

Just Fun Facts 2021