murders of crows, unkindess of ravens....

Red riot!!!

Its a stunning spring day up here in Northumberland.. about time, the sun is out and unusually the wind has dropped!!! Its a day to be in the garden. My gardens not too big and at the moment has a almost display of beautiful tulips - I say 'almost' because I'm a little disappointed - as I state every time we walk past the flowers much to my partners amusement - I bought the bulbs from the flower market in Amsterdam last year when we visited for a few day to celebrate my birthday. I was really looking forward to the spring time reminder of a fabulous few days away with the riot of colour the mixed bulbs, frilly petals, 'black', mottled, etc selection I had carefully chosen would provide. What I got was red, red red .... all the other colours were ones I had put in the year before....
still they are very pretty standing tall and upright in the sunshine. Interspersed with bright blue forgetmenots they are set off nicely by an old stone wall which is covered in moss and lichen, I'm trying to encourage other plant to grow in it but the birds don't help!!

beautiful textures

We live almost under a rookery and its a wonderful sight when the Rooks, Ravens, Jackdaws and Crows come in on a night, hundreds of them flying across the skyline and circling around cawing and screeching to their friends and seemingly checking all is well until suddenly they just settle and all is quiet. In the summer we are always woken early dawn as they start up for the day flying off to who knows where for rook, raven and crow type adventures...

Today is not for the garden however - we are heading off for a little adventure of our own - running a Star/Astronomy weekend in Allandale - do hope the weather holds. We've loaded the van and car with everything but the kitchen sink, including food for 16 people all weekend, telescopes, warm clothing, beer and wine and off we head into the depths of Northumbria. I'll post pictures next week.

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