Snow - Well a bit

 A bit of snow in the garden today :)

Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum

Female Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum

Spent an hour in the garden this afternoon after shopping in Cambridge this morning (I bought a new hand sander :)

Out in the garden with my trusty macro lens this little beauty behaved very well and certainly posed for me. Sue is still in the garden trying to catch a Damselfly with little success.

I was quite pleased with these shots. 

It is a Female Ruddy Darter Dragonfly - Sympetrum sanguineum

#safaritothegarden

Still Life

 

Cambridge Botanic Garden - Bamboo Graffiti

Sue and I popped back to the Botanic Garden this week. As we walked around we found these beautiful bamboos. On closer inspection we found that many of then had Graffiti cut into them. The oldest I couold find was 2014.

I love graffiti where it is organised and allowed. I was not sure if I approved of this. BUT I was really drawn by the beauty of the characters and the story they told. I actually took 33 pictures, here are just 19.

Dried Flowers

 

Cambridge University Botanic Garden

My Friend Allan won the Cambridge University Botanic Garden Round to the International Garden Photographer of the Year 2024. 

As a prise from the Botanic Garden he had a guided tour of the Greenhouse followed by a Tea. He was able to invite two friends to this tour and meal. 

To our delight he asked Sue and I to join him and his wife Liz and this happened on Thursday. We had a really interesting afternoon with one of the head gardeners.

Although not a photographic opportunity as such, I did take my camera with me, as did Allan and I managed a few shots.