John Jackson
@treefern41
Naturalist and chalk stream defender. Book collector, restorer and poet. Born 1940s
This is the connection you may be interested in with a Darwin slant to boot.
I have just perused your delicious little offerings, just to my taste. It seems lots look at yours but try as I might few make marks or comments. So, in old age i am hidden in the silence of the unloved places of our etherial life. Passing through without comment or remark. So thanks.
This is an C18 English headband. This is the bottom one, the top has disintegrated. A striped cotton shirt with the colours in that order would replace it & look great. However I can’t find such a pattern. Saw this yesterday on someone’s back. Not the right order or colours or order… but…
Clemati vitalba or Old mans beard, flowering in Esher car park yesterday, a plant of my youth on Wye downs in Kent and found all round Surrey on alkaline soils.
Lovely, day flying Burnet moth on scabious. Leatherhead car park in the shade of the Sequoia in the corner.
This beautiful view of Boxhill from the Hillier garden centre coffee shop. Buzzard there and oh, what a joy to hear the repetitious song of thrush intermingling with that of the dulcet tones of both blackbird and the tropical cadences of the blackcap.
West end village woods by Garsons farm Esher. Path and fern ditch with the main pool full of birds all round.
This is Walton on Thames car park oakwood by the cricket field where woodpeckers are drumming, it may not be big but it is beautiful.
Shelduck species on the flooded fields at Garsons farm Esher. Common and Cape Shelduck look like escapes but no rings visible. Two days ago.
Garsons farm car park field now flooded more than I have ever seen. Usual suspects, swans, gulls, Canada geese, magpie, jackdaw, crow and pied wagtail.
I think this may be the first of 2 rhyming poems written in 2000s about the millennium tethers ballon on Vauxhall park.
3 nights over London’s streets and gardens, like moonlight but no moon is visible. Very strange indeed.
This beautiful Cucurbit just by New Malden car park behind the new Chinese Loon Fung supermarket yesterday. Any one know it’s name very pretty leaves. Squash maybe?
Garsons farm maize crop ploughed in and now attracting many hundreds of birds. At least 100 Canada geese, Egyptian geese with wood pigeons, stock doves, magpies, crows and jackdaws feeding on the fallen maize cobs. Amazing.
My sister Sarah Hunt, her beautiful Cabinet of Curiosities, the result of a life time of obsession with little, beautiful, strange and unusual things. Lovely
Butter and eggs, Lotus corniculatus and Taro Alocasia in my greenhouse in Kingston. Roots from Asian shops in our are planted in a water trough in my carp tank setup. This keeps the water clean for the fish, huge plants removing the nutrients for their growth.
A savage looking Bromeliad on the corner of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Dykia spines will rip you to pieces, a species from Texas I believe. A very large one in the corner of the dry section of the Wisely glass house.
At least 3 plus Jersey Tigers today in a cool corner of Waitrose car park Surbiton today Saturday.