On Aston's Eyot, River Thames (Isis), Oxford, UK - frosty morning

 

Flowers unlocked

What joy to be able to get back into the University Botanic Garden in Oxford (UK) in June when it re-opened just in time to prevent the summer flowers being born to blush unseen.

Green things

It occurred to me that we don't have many things in the house that are green, apart from the leaves of plants we haven't managed to kill yet.  

So I went looking for green things and surprised myself.

Retro and metro

Pierre our Chinese rabbit

Breakfast tray

Bookshelf (Bernie's brother is in the Green Party)

Fruit bowl

lunch prep

rice wine vinegar

liquid green

wild garlic ready for wilting

Honey I just shrunk my old Renault 4L

David and Aspidistra (classical legend)

green lunch

now wash your hands

Private banking; public access

We have become accustomed to bad banks being bailed out by taxpayers, most of whom are relatively, or absolutely, poor.  How refreshing, therefore to see banking wealth bring the benefit of access to the many not the few, as at Stourhead, south west England, given over to the care of the National Trust.







Something of Blenheim....

Something of Stowe...

Particularly splendid in autumn colours.

Nature imitated and tamed.