On the West coast of Finland, beautiful summer Kokkola. Travelling through Germany After a sunny and beautiful Spring the wonderful weather has continued with intermittent rainy days to the delight of the gardeners and farmers. This has allowed me to [...]
Early English spring in March has a special quality as colour returns to the ground with snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils, fritillarias and forsythia-, cherry trees, camelias to mention a few. Suddenly you experience a surge of expectation of a full-blown spring [...]
2021 Our winter snow in Finland arrived again late December giving us a white Christmas. There have been a number of sunny days reminding me of how beautiful nature is here when covered in snow. I found this little Christmas [...]
Autumn provides such a brilliant scene and rich setting to capture the colours of nature with its wonderful vibrancy of browns, yellows, reds and greens. With the sun lower in the sky early evening brings a tremendous variety of opportunities [...]
2021 In Finland there are many unusual outdoor works of art. When covered in snow it is fun to see how their character changes. The mysterious rock Trolls are in the forest; part of a children's playground. Someone had a [...]
A November visit to Vaasa on the Gulf of Bothnia. On the beautiful West Coast of Finland shoreline. Visited Lubeck, Germany on a beautiful summers day. Recently visited the magnificent Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds which was full of [...]