cornflake-orange / rich pigment of leaf dust / frames old concrete
Author: Graham Wright
Rain & dust
A new focus for this blog
Dead tree
Fern
Poems 2019: a book
Iceland August 2014
Galls and Gall Wasps
I started getting interested in galls last autumn from sketching them in my nature diary. I didn't really realise they were all incubation chambers for gall wasp larvae, but of course when I read more I got fascinated. I picked the Robins Pincushion shown here and kept it over the winter, just to see if… Continue reading Galls and Gall Wasps
Crystal Palace park, frosty morning
Crystal Palace Park in the snow
Wandering around for a few hours trying to get to grips with my new Sony RX100. Rapidly failing light and trying a range of techniques made for hard work figuring out just what Sony were thinking with the controls and menus, but the image quality held up at ISOs I hardly use even on my… Continue reading Crystal Palace Park in the snow
More morning sun
Froghopper
Latest visitor to the flat, getting cosy between some cushions I was about to plonk my arse on. Identification not certain, but probably a Common Froghopper (Philaenus spumarius), famous as the creator of cuckoo-spit. Judging from the slow-motion breakdancing, they don't encounter cushions much in the wild, as it gave a pretty poor demonstration of… Continue reading Froghopper