Pretty snail flowers!!!









Are these red currants?











a red admiral







doubly prickly thistle!!!









This mute swan didn't see me hiding behind the tree :-)

Well here you go then Stephen, a buttercup for you with a ringlet butterfly.








Another buttercup on a white granite stone.









Beastie on big daisy flower.











Look at this lovely wee frog that I found.







This Dunnock looked just perfect and at home beside the bonsai tree.

I caught a grasshopper :-)

This lacewing sat on the road for me!

I was so pleased to see this beautiful butterfly and EVENTUALLY managed to get a photo.

A big beastie when close up.

Isn't this a beautiful moth. It's amazing how beautiful insects are when you look close, the things we humans miss.

And here it is the sawfly, Rhogogaster viridis

2/7/09 Garden Views

Isn't nature amazing producing stripey flowers!!!

Click on this to zoom in and see the amazing gold on the moth.

Two beautiful blooms.

These caterpillars were hiding under a leaf and then eating it all up.

Another 2 beauties.