Category: Calendar of Firsts

My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

• A beautiful, golden, waning moon, that had a touch of pink in a lavender grey sky.
• Rose found a frog hiding in the garden pond.
• Our apple tree is full of blossom.

What is happening in the natural world where you live?

Happy exploring!

My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

• Bats (Pipistrelle?) flying over the garden at dusk.
• Wonderful weather! We had snow on Tuesday, Thunder on Thursday, and snow again on Friday!
• We have a wee Robin that visits our garden, and we had the pleasure of several visits this week.
• The nesting duck in my parent’s garden has disappeared. No sign of the eggs, no sign of any struggle, so we are hoping all is well. I sketched a photograph of a Mallard egg for reference.
• The tadpoles are thriving, as is Rosie’s Horse Chestnut.

What is happening in the natural world where you live?

Happy exploring!

My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

• Lots of tadpoles in the garden. We had friends come over this week to collect some for their own garden 🙂
• Rosie’s Horse Chestnut is thriving! Last autumn, Rose planted a conker in a pot. It survived the severe storms we had, despite being blown out of it’s pot and is as strong and healthy as can be.
• Gorse (although this one is cheating, as there is always gorse, but it is one of my favourite flowers and I even wear gorse perfume.)
• The ‘Milk Moon’ on Friday was just breathtaking. A huge, golden sphere, hanging heavy in the sky, it lit up all the surrounding clouds with its pale light.
• In other, exciting news, my parents have a duck nesting under the shrubs in their garden! She has feathered her nest, laid eggs, and is sitting very quietly. Watch this space!

My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

• Marsh Marigolds
• Masses of Lesser Celandine
• Primroses
• Nine Mallard ducklings
• More fishing for Rose this week

My ‘colours’ for this week, (along the top left hand page) were the greys of this week’s sky, which I blended into the duckling sketch.

My Calendar of Firsts for this week:

• Buttercups!
• We finally have seen toadspawn in the pond, roped around the masses of frogspawn.
• Dandelions in the grass.
• Rosie went to a fishery and caught six roach and one Bream, much to her great delight.

My ‘colours’ for the week, along the top left hand page, where simply the blues, greys, and golds of this week’s sky.

 

My Calendar of Firsts this week:

• Rose found a Mussel shell by the canal
• Unfortunately, we found lots of litter too, so collected it up, and put it in the rubbish bin on the main pathway.
• Frogspawn in the boating pond!
• More frogs were spotted this week, too.
• A beautiful hate sun, shining through the trees on the Vernal Equinox

My ‘colours’ for the week, along the top left hand page, are the pretty blues of the bright sky, with hints of gentle pink that were all around me in the natural world this week.