Bluebells – Donich Website https://www.donich.co.uk Argyll wildlife and nature as seen on the banks of the Donich Water Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:05:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.4 Bluebell Video https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/22/bluebell-video/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/22/bluebell-video/#respond Thu, 22 May 2014 21:18:42 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=3063 Back in March you may remember I did a video of our ‘back garden’ on one of the few days that it didn’t rain. Well to show the difference a few months can make – here is the same scene transformed in early summer.

The colours of the bluebells and broom is fantastic – in just a few days they will also be joined by the bright purple of the rhododendrons.

This picture is slightly anomalous because I had a problem with the scaling of the original – so I had to use this one which features bluebells but also the cats investigating underneath each others’ tails – whether this is a bonus or not I suppose depends on your personal preferences!

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/22/bluebell-video/feed/ 0 Iconic https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/15/iconic/ https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/15/iconic/#respond Thu, 15 May 2014 20:53:20 +0000 http://www.donich.co.uk/?p=3036 The first strawberries were ready today and very nice they were too. Coming back from Glasgow tonight and having a quick walk round the garden, I see that the whole wilderness area behind the cultivated garden is a mass of bluebells.

It occurred to me looking at the pictures I had just taken of both, what iconic images of the Scottish summer they are. A little piece of paradise is sitting by your own bluebell wood on the banks of the Donich, eating strawberries you grew yourself.

]]> https://www.donich.co.uk/blog/2014/05/15/iconic/feed/ 0