PJ wanderings among reptilian plants!

First chink of sunrise

Patterns on a fallen cypress shoot

'Reptilian' cypress

Bluebell shoots

Rich colour of cypress cones

More 'reptilian' growth

Bluebell shoots poking through montbretia leaves where there were no bluebells before.

Gorse flowers and the morning light

White and a little purple

Welly Walk on Howie's 1st birthday

A promising sunrise

Starlike moss up the hill

East

North

Yew tree growing on an old wall

 A very old birch tree

With lots of bracket fungi

Floating broken dried rushes looking like a log jam

 Rainbow mum and baby

Snow and Sunrise

A little bit of snow

And sun rising in a blaze of glory

Moody sky morning PJ wander

Today I heard a Song Thrush for the first time this year. I had just asked Toad if he had heard one yet, then he left and there it was singing its head off. It kept going strong for nearly two hours. There has been some blackbird chasing going on too, starlings have appeared at their lookout post on top of a cypress tree, sussing out whether their favourite nesting place under some lead in our roof valley is still an option, and great tits have been conversing loudly for a week or two. Spring cometh slowly but surely to the boggy brae.

Not sure what happened here but I quite like the effect

Old bracken and a fence post

Juxtaposed cypress and an old downy birch trunk.below. The old cypress seems more open this year than I've seen it before. There is more light getting down to the ground among its many trunks. The silver birch spent a lot of its life being cut back by electricity board workers but now is allowed to grow free because the overhead cables have been put underground. This also means I can let a baby oak tree up there do its own thing, always supposing the roe deer don't nibble it into oblivion.

Now I'm off to deal with some young stringy brambles up there before they turn into robust, snaggy ropes of thorns. 

7 Feb PJ Wander

Three photos of the sunrise, moving slightly more north of east each time. I like the patterns on the water.

Flowering currant bud burst

Moss and lichen on a cherry tree

Winter grass and old cherry bark

From two days ago

Dried alchemilla leaves and stalks in the flowerbed; plenty of homes for wee beasties in there

The cowberry bush that has its roots in and under the old fallen cherry tree seems fine

As does the honeysuckle

Dragged an old oak log down from the top to saw up for firewood. This shows the underside of a bracket fungus that was growing on it.