MsHedgehog

This is Gladys Tejeda, who was born to a family of subsistence farmers, two and a half miles above sea level in the Andes of Peru. Today she...

Awesome comments today! The Chinese bus, pictured again below, is explained. Iain gives the following two links: Joanna Scarratt UA Bran...

Today, for the first time, I saw a London bus advertisement (apparently for drinking milk, or something) written entirely in a language I ca...

I'm working a lot of extra hours at work for a couple of weeks. I don't usually do this even for project work because it's usual...

Upside-Down Isaac and the Dreamers are Carole's copyright, used with permission for this post alone. My friend Carole the Photograp...

There are millions of acorns, ripe and falling, making a noise as you walk through the forest, 'plop' - 'plop' - 'plop...

Some music: Ian Bostridge – Semele HWV58: Where E're You Walk - George Fredrick Handel Where'er you walk ... ... cool gales sh...

Ever since about when I went to Les Cigales I've been mainly trying to make the best of a mostly lovely summer, and haven't been th...

A pair of long-tailed tits ('tits' in general are similar to the small birds that Americans call 'chickadees' - the word use...

I was on holiday this week and got to do fun things like go to the butterfly house that's at the front of the Natural History Museum. It...

Sorry, it's a bit quiet around here, after a burst of posting. I see tangocommuter has got some photos from tango al fresco last Sunday...

I took this picture on 30th May, and since then it seems they've been eating at the same rate. Here's an oak we've met before, t...

“You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of Spring.” A quotation , whatever its flaws, that has always appealed to me.

On a day when the sky is perfectly grey, you have to look hard, even with eyes, to see the beauty of the world. In photographs, it dulls the...

The oaks are not ready to rumble. Behind the church, the dryads' ballroom is well-lit. The forest-floor churchyard is carpeted with flow...

The pink petals are already falling. It's been a windy few days. But some of the hawthorns or may-trees, I think that's what these a...