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January 31, 2012 | Mayhem in the garden: stump grinding The temperature has dropped and the rain has bucketed down. The ground out there is very soggy. Winter conditions have at last come to the east of England. And timed arrival to perfection to coincide with the one tonne machine that has come up from Mersea Island by trailer to grind our roots. Paul and I [...]  January 24, 2012 | If you go into the woods today, you're in for a big surprise not quite fly agaric Serried timber trees, broad trunked with fly agaric mushrooms poking through dead leaves. Why is this the popular image of a wood? Should we blame Racey Helps or Beatrix Potter? Apparently not. According to Oliver Rackham, (the historian of the English countryside) this woodland askew view is to be blamed on [...] December 9, 2011 | This tree is so dead it is alive The blasted trunk, hit by lightening, stands it’s ground in the middle of a footpath. As a stately thing, the tree rules over young sweet chestnuts. Though dead as a dodo and sloughing away its lignified dead cells bit by by, it provides the ultimate wildlife habitat. A sculpture too, to be coveted for [...] August 31, 2011 | Wordless Wednesday in Borgo di CasignanoDoes it still exist? The WW bit I mean. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1247′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); |
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