March Nature Notes

Hello Lovelies ,
 here we are on the penultimate day of march so I better get on with my nature post for this month!
Lets start with Edith's illustrations from her book "Nature notes of an Edwardian Lady" written in 1905. If you have been reading my blog for a while you will know I'm doing a post each month this year based around sharing this fabulous book and the nature on my own doorstep 106 years later.......

Such beautiful paintings . It's some how comforting to find the same plants and flowers on my walks, I've noticed so much birdsong too but capturing birds in a photo continues to prove tricky :0)
 Here are some subjects that were a little easier to catch.........Lesser Celandine......

Such a pretty little flower with shiny , heart shaped leaves, possibly even nicer though are the wild primroses.......

 a lovely gentle yellow.

This picture was taken on a morning walk last week , during that glorious sunny spell..............

I love this simple little church .As you can see ,most of the trees are still bare . The hawthorn hedge in the foreground looks bare too but just this week the hedges have started to green up ...

and in some parts the blossom  is just beginning to uncurl.........

This church is situated away from the road in a  a peaceful spot......

Inside the church yard there was lots of wildlife , woodpidgeons , pheasants and squirrels ...all of these were too fast for me ! but on the way home I did manage to capture this cutie :0)............

As soon as I spotted him I froze on the spot so he didn't run away ...then I had to get my camera out of its' case which has a noisy Velcro fastening, by going really slowly, oh so slowly, I managed to do it quietly but I think I need to make a less noisy camera case !!

 I wonder how many brothers and sisters he has living in that burrow.......

Here are some March folk law sayings from the book .........

And a little bit of Wordsworth , this really sums up the best of this first month of spring to me.....

Ahhhh , spring ,welcome back .

I'll leave you with some more Lambs , firstly Edith's beautifully drawn version......

Then some I snapped last week........

These two make me smile , junior is a real "chip off the old block " :0) 

And this guy has such a pretty face ...

I don't want to wish away the months, it just makes you older !! But I am so glad spring is here .
Jacquie x

P.S. Isn't it great to be able to view these pictures in a bigger format!! I love it .
I'm so untechnical this has taken me ages to figure out , and there will be an easier way , I'm sure .
But I just thought I would share what I've discovered with anyone who doesn't know this already :0)

I upload pictures straight from my computer and use the "new" up loader , this may not be it's actual name but it's something similar . I upload pictures in the edit HTML setting and they look like a load of letters and numbers . Then you can click on the "compose " setting, shown in this picture........

This show the pictures how they will actually appear in the post.Then I discovered that if you left click on a picture , as well as it turning blue , there is a list of sizes along the bottom and you can click on the size you would like to use , I'm choosing extra large........

When I first did this the pictures overlapped the side bar so......I had to go into design..then template designer ...then adjust widths . I adjusted my entire blog to the maximum width and narrowed my sidebar to 210px and this solved the problem . I hope this helps a few of you lovelies :0)