Tag Archives: Speckled Wood

Insects between the showers

Posted on August 17, 2014 by thehutts

A few showery and rainy days on Skye still gave way now and again to warm sunshine.  In these sunny intervals the insects emerged to feed on the flowers of heather, black knapweed, devil’s-bit scabious and angelica that surrounded our … Continue reading →

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In the Bocage

Posted on November 11, 2012 by thehutts

Parts of the Normandy countryside are defined by tiny fields reached along sunken trackways. As with all such pastoral landscapes it is in decline, fields are amalgamated and the lanes abandoned; useless to the modern scale of farm machinery. Still … Continue reading →

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