Home at the Hive

Popped into Worcester yesterday to pick up my new glasses and discovered a new home for the bugs constructed very close to The Hive.  There is a wealth of wild plants provided especially for insects and animals around The Hive so I am sure this bug house will be well used if it does not get vandalised first!!

The last hurrah

Blustery weather over the last day or two has brought down lots of leaves.Yesterday, on my way to 'Singing for Fun' I thought it must almost be the end - so many leaves had fallen during the night it seemed impossible that there could still be any attached to the trees, but there they were, shining in the sunlight and heart-stoppingly lovely ! Our church steeple isn't leaning - I was so intent on getting the scene, I forgot to stand straight. The singing was good too - at least it was for the singers , the listeners might have had other ideas !

Messages

Now I'm not a superstitious person - messages come usually by email or through the door in an envelope with a stamp on. Last week however, I went on the train to Edinburgh to visit the Scottish national Gallery of Modern Art and on getting out of the (very convenient) Gallery bus at the front entrance, there, shining out across the building was a message that seemed to speak straight to me -

It put me in mind of Julian of Norwich's axiom 'all will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well' - there's a comforting thought.
However, when I walked out to the sculpture trail, leading from one of the Gallery buildings to the other, there was another 'message'.

I almost laughed out loud !
The installations are by Julian Opie who has the 'running horse' piece in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
He must have known I was coming.

Not Another Bug House!!

No ..... it's not!  This one is at Croft Castle and is now complete since my visit last year and very resplendent it looks too as it overlooks the pond which has newts, frogs and grass snakes visiting.

Tatton Bug House

A very rustic bug house in the walled garden at Tatton Park. I am sure the bugs do not mind!

Yet Another Bug House

This lovely bug house with its own Green Man was one of several in the Stumpery at Burnby Hall Gardens which I visited last week.
There were a number of sculpts and things of interest in the garden so it was a lovely visit despite its main attraction, a National Collection of waterlilies is not being in flower until July.

This is the remaining stump of a giant redwood - the scale is hard to see in this photo but look at the next one to see what the log was used for.

Beat that for a summerhouse !

Just Another Bug House!!

I discovered this photograph recently whilst moving some pictures into folders.  I think it was taken at Ryton Organic Gardens in 2014.