nature

A Walk and a Heron Fishing

A walk around the lake at Innisfree Garden.

5 years ago

Look Up, Look Down, Look Out

Before all the leaves are down take a moment to look up. This is Innisfree Garden last Saturday.  Big Halloween…

5 years ago

Wordsworth on the Rail Trail

There's a drainage ditch runs alongside the rail trail where we often take our morning stroll. It runs with water…

5 years ago

Innisfree Garden

A beautiful day and Innisfree Garden is open for the season. There is not much left of the house that…

6 years ago

Bumbarrel, Mumruffin and Poke Pudding

It was Clive Bennett who got me traveling down this particular track. He's a real birder and maintains a wonderful…

6 years ago

Beavering

Big excitement on The Daily Stroll! There we were, just strolling along the part of the Appalachian Trail than runs…

7 years ago

The Daily Stroll

With Innisfree Garden closed for the season time to revisit old familiar haunts.

7 years ago

First Day of Fall and the First Autumn Walk

A glorious day for a stroll around  the lake at Innisfree Garden.

7 years ago

The Day That Summer Died

The Day That Summer Died From all around the mourners came The day that Summer died, From hill and valley,…

7 years ago

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park,…

7 years ago

Among the Narcissi

Spring comes earlier in the UK than it does here and the growing season is longer and cooler. Plath's poem…

8 years ago

We’re going to see the rabbit

‘We’re going to see the rabbit’ We are going to see the rabbit. We are going to see the rabbit.…

8 years ago

Lines Written in Early Spring

Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate…

8 years ago

The Great Unleaving: When Life Throws Rhubarb on your Custard

I left full-time employment at the end of June with a grand plan of doing nothing. After 45 years in…

8 years ago

Social Media and the Two-Minute Hate

Near the beginning of George Orwell's 1984  our hero Winston Smith attends a rally at the Ministry of Truth where…

8 years ago