Fatsia covered in snow, Hammersmith, London, December 2010
Johann Goethe is one of my role models, he was a multitalented person, most known for his literary work and especially his masterpiece, Faust.
Goethe was also a botanist, a specialist in plant morphology.… Read the rest
Blooming Cylindropuntia, Tenerife, Canary islands
I have a primal (if not primitive) quality I share with some curious animals. Did you ever see squirrels hiding nuts and magpies stealing sparkling things like watches or rings? I believe it may be a quirky instinct of collecting, stocking things up, though this is not a scientist’s guess.… Read the rest
Radish – By Jonny Hunter (originally posted to Flickr as Radish in baskets) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons