nature

i’ve still got a pile of photos to post going back almost a year. it would be poor to post something over a year old (even if i’ve not posted it before), so i should really clear out some of the backlog.
anyway, here’s a picture of the lakedistrict from last august !

here is kezia in a tree trap. these things can close up at any moment, so she looks justifiably frightened

kezia got stung by stingers/stingas last weekend and i found a doc leaf for her. she thought it brilliant. (because they are brilliant).

esther and kezia have magnifying glasses as part of their going-for-a-walk kit. the idea is they are meant to be used for looking at small insects.
instead esther decided to do some detective work to see if she could fathom which animal had been here recently.
alimentary my dear whats on.

as a celebration that kezia has finally got through the chicken pox, we went on a family outing to the london wetlands centre. it’s really rather good.
here’s a hide

and here’s the girls in masks they made

definately worth a visit. beware of camera lens envy if you do go though – it’s absolutely packed with photographers with long lenses trying to get their perfect bird shots.

here are kezia and esther pond dipping at the london wetland centre.

here is some of their booty – water snails, shrimps and a funny fly lavae thing

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i don’t usually post at this time of night, but i thought i’d share this photo of the moon i just took with my Sony compact camera out of the window. no editing, just a massive crop.

i’m quite pleased with it. now if only i had a telephoto lense for my Canon and knew how to drive it properly …