Greek Flora

We had the fauna in the last post, so here's the flora, with love from Greece...

Pomegranate

Oleander

Not sure of this one!

Cockscomb

Amorgos

Wild strawberry

Lupin

Orchid

Bougainvillea

Frozen

I know! I know! It's been a while.... a very long while...

Here we are already in 2015, and January has slipped by....

How do we slow time down, find the time to do all the things we want to do? Wouldn't it be great if we could just sometimes put Life 'on ice'? Let it just sit quietly for a while, while we catch up on everything we've missed?

Speaking about ice and all things cold and wintry, I saw the New Year in snow shoeing in the beautiful Chamonix Valley of the French Alps. A huge dump of snow (100 cm - that's 3 feet) the night before we flew in made for some gorgeous Winter Wonderland scenery....

A Walk In The Peak District

After basking in unseasonable warm (for Spring), sunny weather for almost two weeks, our luck ran out last weekend for our long-planned meet-up with friends for some walking in the Peak District.

In case you're wondering, the Peak District National Park is found here...

Not to be confused with The Lake District, which is further north!

Wind, rain, hail and then sleet hammered us from all directions most of the way! I didn't bother even taking my camera with, but I did get a few quick shots using my phone...

A brief ray of light

It's lambing season!

Friendly donkey

Lakes and Waterfalls

Continuing with my Alpine theme...

Lac Blanc.... it was one helluva trek to get up to but well worth it!

Les Fleurs des Alpes

With my trip to the Alps planned for late summer, I had not expected to see that many flowers still out.... but given the late Spring in Europe this year, and the high altitudes we were walking at, luckily there were still plenty of pretty and unusual blossoms around.....

Had to share this pretty beetle too!

Sign in a park in Chamonix

A Closer Look At Keukenhof....