Yellow jug in a French market

A yellow jug from the same market stall on Loches as this green one.

Icelandic poppy

These are the summer weeds of our garden, colonising the gravel drive and open spaces. This one grows against our neighbours’ wall and has passed its best with the petals starting to fade.

The Thrift Shop

Yesterday afternoon in Glasgow. This shop is on McFarlane Street, just off Gallowgate in the east end of the city.

Sunflowers

Something for the first day of March and to remind me that spring, and summer, can’t be too far away. These sunflowers were on sale in a street market in Aix-en-Provence last summer.

Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum)

Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) taken at Taynish National Nature Reserve this afternoon. Here are a clump of them growing in the boggy margin of a lochan:

Broom flower

The flower of the common broom, Cytisus scoparius, photographed on a walk from the village.

Fairy lights II

Balloons and fairy lights outside a shop on a pavement shaded by scaffolding … and deliberately de-focused.

Fairy lights I

Balloons and fairy lights outside a shop on a pavement shaded by scaffolding … and deliberately de-focused.