Photos, videos and docs of Amelia, with the keywords: "Nature"

2016. Hope

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:12:54 +0000

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Sunday challenge SC179 post 11 January 2026

My hopes for this year are that I can still keep walking (my knees are giving up) and appreciating Nature in all its forms; and also that I can continue to love my garden, which always gives me joy and anticipation for the future.

The snowdrops and winter flowering cyclamen were covered in snow on the 10th and visible after a thaw on the 11th January.

Today in Ruyton XI Towns

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:49:04 +0000

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Red Admiral butterfly, showing the open wings, and closed wings, sipping nectar from flowering ivy.

Natural abstract. Diplolepis rosae

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 07:41:42 +0000

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SC160 - Post 17 August - Natural Abstracts

I didn't do anything with this photo except crop it. This is quite n usual occurrence in Nature. Who can guess what it is?

From this afternoon until about Thursday, we won't have a working computer. Enjoy your week everybody. ;-))

The Robin's pincushion (also known as the 'Bedeguar Gall') is a gall caused by the larvae of a tiny gall wasp, Dipoloepis rosae. The gall is widespread and common, and can be found developing on the stems of Dog-roses during late summer; it acquires its reddish colour as it matures in autumn. Each gall holds many grubs, which feed on the gall tissues throughout the winter and emerge in spring as adults. The adults reproduce asexually and only a tiny number are male.

Small Treasures at the Seaside

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:49:23 +0000

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SC149 - Post 1 June - Triptych

Synchronised preening

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:59:19 +0000

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Sea gooseberry

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 11:52:00 +0000

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SC104 An object out of place. Not an object but a living creature.

While walking at the edge of the sea at Horsey on the east coast of Norfolk we came across 100s if not 1000s of these little jelly 'blobs' left stranded on the shoreline by the ebbing tide. They are in fact a member of the group of zooplankton and are called Pleurobrachia pileus or sea gooseberries. As you can see each organism is small, but they were present in such large numbers that they were very noticeable.

They have most likely ended up on the beaches due to recent strong winds. They tend to be in high abundance at this time of year in any case due to the increased amount of phytoplankton and very small zooplankton plankton (their main food source) in surface water in the spring and summer, when the days get longer and the sun is higher in the sky. They can survive if they are returned to the sea quickly, but it would have been a mammoth task so to do.

They grow up to about 2.5cm long.

Beachcombing - Cromer rock

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:21:30 +0000

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Beachcombing - Cromer heart

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:22:34 +0000

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I very rarely bring stones home from the seaside as I consider it to be unlawful, but this little heart was an exception, and is now on a chest of drawers.

Beachcombing - chalk and flint

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:44:35 +0000

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HFF from Horsey Gap

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:52:26 +0000

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This post and line fence was a temporary set up here, much needed to keep folks off the dunes where the adults and new born seal pups were sheltering from the recent high tides and stormy weather. Further along the beach there was a viewing platform, so i did manage to get some photos of the seal pups.
As soon as I saw this I thought of Isabel (Xata).

Horsey young pup

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:05:59 +0000

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Frosty Seedheads

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:24:38 +0000

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Nature's jewels

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 08:49:07 +0000

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Puff balls. Lycoperdon species I think

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:38:56 +0000

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These fungi were photographed on the same day as the bramble flowers. nature seems a bit confused. The second PiP is a mature form of Fly agaric.

Cliffe fungi. The Common Earthball, Scleroderma citrinum.

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 06:06:19 +0000

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The September equinox is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equinox may occur from September 21 to 24. The equinox may be taken to mark the end of astronomical summer and the beginning of astronomical autumn (autumnal equinox) in the Northern Hemisphere. Meteorological autumn begins on the first day of September.

Earth balls have indeed been common in Ruyton XI Towns woodlands this year. Eventually, when fully mature, the top of the earthball cracks open and allows the wind and rain to disperse its precious content, its spores.

These are one of the few species in the woods that will make you very ill if eaten.

We in the north are now officially in autumn.

We are away for a few days. Enjoy the weekend and next week.

Autumn equinox

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 06:02:21 +0000

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The September equinox is the moment when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading southward. Because of differences between the calendar year and the tropical year, the September equinox may occur from September 21 to 24. The equinox may be taken to mark the end of astronomical summer and the beginning of astronomical autumn (autumnal equinox) in the Northern Hemisphere. Meteorological autumn begins on the first day of September.

We in the north are now officially in autumn and we have cooler weather, lots of rain and now equinoctial gales.

We are away for a few days. Enjoy the weekend and next week.

"...over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:27:58 +0000

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SC61 - Inspired by Shakespeare

"...over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."

Part of a monologue spoken by Oberon, Act 2, Scene 1 of a Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

The Luscious woodbine is Lonicera periclymenum, common names include honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, or woodbine.

The rose in the centre is the hybrid musk rose, ‘Penelope’ bred by Joseph Hardwick Pemberton. It has trusses of semi-double seashell-pink blooms that are sweetly fragrant. This photo is taken in my garden

The rose on the right, an eglantine, is a species of Rosa rubiginosa, also named R. eglanteria

Horse chestnut bud

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:15:22 +0000

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Today's' Sunday Challenge is: SC38 BOKEH

The PiP shows a more advanced stage of the horse chestnut. Note that it is possible to see the horseshoe shaped scar left by last year's leaf.

Hamamelis mollis - Witch Hazel. The scented garden in winter

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:23:03 +0000

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Hazel flowers

nobody@ipernity.com (Amelia) — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:15:03 +0000

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The hazel has both male and female flowers on each shrub, and the two flowers are quite different. The male flowers are gathered within the long, breeze-blown catkins and these are by far the most prominent. Each catkin is made up of many individual flowers – these are the small green/yellow male flowers which produce the pollen.

The hazel is wind pollinated and the pollen from the catkins blows to reach the female flowers which you would never spot unless you looked carefully – they are tiny individual flowers, visible only as red styles protruding from a green bud-like structure on the same branches as the male flowers. Once pollinated in the springtime, the female flowers set to work producing the hazelnuts which ripen in the autumn.