Flora and fauna
Random shots of wildlife but mainly of colourful plants and flowers
Madrid Province (or Comunidad de Madrid, to use it…
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Fresno de Torote. A nearby village to Algete where I now live. Spring 11 years ago.
Perhaps better on full screen.
I tried adding this to the group 'Clouds', which I joined recently but the group has dissapeared from my drop down list. Any ideas why, anyone?
Pansy escapee. Self-seeded and apparently perfectl…
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This hardy survivor found a minuscule crack to etablish itself in on the driveway and has happily survived for several weeks. For some reason I have become quite fond of it and always say hello when I pass it on my daily constitutional!
I asked my sister to take this as I can't yet bend down so low!
Blue Crown. H. A. N. W. E. everyone!
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This bloomed last year for the entire duration of my hospital stay (covid-19). So I was pleasantly surprised this year to discover that it is very similar to the white variety, Constance Elliott, that I had in my garden in Pinner, Middlesex, England over a decade ago. This variety is called Blue Crown.
Another garden rose
Poppy field - shot taken from the car.
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Another of my sister's shots (taken from the car).
Possibly the only remaining poppy field in Algete after their mass eradication in recent years.
Poppy field
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Near my current home in Algete but I wasn't living here when I took this shot. It was taken on a visit to my sister's then home in a flat in Algete town. I have very probably posted this before but I felt it was worth another airing!
The roses suddenly came out all at once!
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By the front gate, Valderrey, Algete, Madrid. Spot the swallow (or is it a tern or a martin? No prizes, just for fun!)
The rose is named ALFRED SISLEY.
H. A. N. W. E. everyone!
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I STILL haven't seen a hoopoe in the flesh! This one paid a visit to my window sill (I have an office desk on this side of the window) on a day spent at the hospital for tests. My sister took this shot through glass.
One day I might actually see one!!
HFF everyone. The first rose in the garden this ye…
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A week or two later than last year but then winter did hang around much longer this year.
UPDATE; for those who asked what variety of rose this is, I had forgotten that I DID find out last year, just before I was struck down with Covid and I have tended to forget knowledge acquired just before then. The name of the rose is ALFRED SISLEY..
In Memorium, for Marie-claire
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A great soul has departed and ipernity will be the less without Marie-claire's kindness and beauty of spirit.
Wisteria, front garden.
HFF everyone!
South West Peninsula Coast Path
HFF everyone!
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Oleander, Parque de Santander, Madrid.
Oleander is ubiquitous in Central and Southern Spain (and Portugal) and its flowers are either red, pink or white. It is used as a border on Spanish motorways in Andalucia (and California, I am reliably informed).
Cistus / jara / rock rose.
Happy New Year and H. A. N. W. E. !
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Honeysuckle on the steep path to the nudist beach at Fishing Cove, Reskajeage, Cornwall.
Late autumnal wisteria.
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Autumn ginkgo
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Quite spectacular colours for a week or two.
(I can't remember if 'quite' in American English means very or is a more non-descript 'ok - ish' because in British English it could mean either, depending on the context. Here I most definitively mean 'very'!)
Newdowns Head and Man-and-His-Man (or Cow-and-Calf…
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