Three years Pass on Hills Road Cambridge

As part of our ongoing CCC project to record changes in the Streets of Cambridge since our 2001-4 survey, I spent an hour photographing Hills Road (see Documenting Cambridge). As I did an interim visit in 2020, it is interesting to see how much has changed in just 3 years rather than the 20 of the main project. For instance, Richer Sounds (who have kindly sponsored our Annual Exhibition) have built a new shop further into town along with lots of other changes while Tescos remains essentially unaltered.

Garden Project 18 - Maturity

 I try to remember to document the garden through the year as part of my project to produce a Wildlife garden with as many habitats as I can in the smallish area of my front garden. Here a snapshot of a (late)summer garden when flowers are beginning to die back but still plenty of wildlife in the Herbaceous borders, Pond, Hedgerow, Woodland and Meadow. Some of the inhabitants are shown with their chosen plant.

Madingley Hall

We had a walk round the grounds of Madingley Hall with Meredith and Sadie, having set ourselves some topics to all take photos off. These were something beginning with same letter as our name, for me A, so Acorn and Arch, then Triangle, Reflection, Interesting Window, Yellow and Stonework.

Sawflies, Ichneumons and Others from the Garden

Another batch from the garden last Friday when the wet conditions gave way to a really hot humid day that the insects found to their liking. Lots of different Sawflies and Ichneumons - most not able to identify from photo but will go in the garden database as photos with suggested family etc. The one with the very long ovipositor was very impressive - about 1 cm total size. The rain had brought out slugs and snails