Archive for the 'nature' Category

Paws

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Snails 2

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

After feeding them on lettuce for 3 weeks I starved them in the refrigerator for a couple of days:

Rinsed:

Plunged into boiling salty water, for 12 minutes:

Sushi, playing with a stick. It’s her favourite toy now:

Garlic and parsley:

Winkle-picker:

After boiling them, I drained them and extracted them from their shells:

Fried in garlic and butter:

The result, with a bit of parsley:

We all agreed they tasted a little bit like slimy mushrooms. An enjoyable day was had by all in the garden.

Thanks to P-p for taking the photos.

She’s had a busy day

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

She went for a little walk around the garden earlier …

Mimi-ge?

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

If you look closely, you can see she has really long ear hair, like M-kun.

Furries

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

I like to think she’s dreaming about chasing blackbirds.

Sushi

Monday, July 11th, 2011

“Play with me!” … No, I’m working …

Drugs for kittys

Monday, July 11th, 2011

Explanation …

Sitting and playing

Friday, July 8th, 2011

“Play with me!”

It’s bloody hard to take photos of her because she doesn’t stop moving …

“Now I want to go to sleep!”

Sleepy

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Sleepy time for kittens …

Sushi

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Snails 1

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

I was just cleaning out the snail cage:

Actually three of them were dead, so I have 20 altogether. Just right for a nice meal for two this weekend.

Starlings can talk and sing!

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

Singing …

Talking …

We’ve got two of them in the garden stealing food from the smaller birds.

Panoramas from Japan

Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Click the images for large versions …

Drift ice around Abashiri:

Mashu-ko:

Nighttime search

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Where are you? … Come on …

Got you. SLUGS!

Misty morning

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

モミジ in the garden

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

It’s not really momiji.

Bob the angry flower

Saturday, September 11th, 2010

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Elderberries this year

Monday, September 6th, 2010

We have an elder growing at the end of our garden. My plan for this year was to climb up to the top and get everything from it, but that didn’t really work out. We don’t have the sort of ladders to do that, and so I had to rely on my trusty stepladder. Unfortunately that meant not getting very much, just the bottom 10′ or so from the side over the garden. The photo above shows exactly what we ended up with.

Who’s poo?

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Ask N-sama …

Hatfield House panorama

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

(This is not actually Hatfield House, but the chapel in the west garden)