Yes, my first Speckled Wood of the year. Such a beautiful butterfly - the perfect lepidopteral analogue of dappled sun on a woodland path - and now an increasingly common garden butterfly.
Envy you your access Nige, our most exotic are red admirals. However today, summer like conditions, the cherry trees in splendid condition as are the rhododendron and alive with bees, they're back.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
Envy you your access Nige, our most exotic are red admirals.
ReplyDeleteHowever today, summer like conditions, the cherry trees in splendid condition as are the rhododendron and alive with bees, they're back.