A Walk to Divonne
pale tussock caterpillar (Calliteara pudibunda) Summer has gone, Autumn is here. Trees are shedding leaves, flowers are fading fast, and the house-martins left a while ago. But as Jane points out in...
View ArticleA Bug hotel
lacewingWinter is approaching, and change is in the air. We’re wrapping up warmer these days, and we’re not the only ones. Insects, such as this lacewing, are looking for a safe place to spend the...
View ArticleSnow in the Jura
footpath covered in snow Just a few days ago, I commented over at The Marvellous in Nature that we didn’t have enough snow yet for snow-shoeing. Well that has all changed! We now have several...
View ArticleAvatar: What do you see?
Neytiri, a Na’vi from Pandora baby pigeons in flower pot grebes on lac leman fungus on tree hummingbird hawk moth seagulls on lac leman blue flowers sparrows drinking view over coral reef sunflower in...
View ArticleWhile out walking
Mont Blanc and Alps from the Pays de Gex Spring almost came to the Pays de Gex recently, and our morning walks were more pleasant for a while. It’s cold again now, but for a few days it was even warm...
View ArticleGreen Gardening
my garden in 2009Is your garden green? Well of course it’s green, it’s got plants in it, that’s not what I mean. How environmentally-friendly is it? Are there things we can we do to make it more...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....