
Not sure what this is, but it grew unaided in the cracks between paving slabs in our back garden. They look like chives, but they’re not.

Not sure what this is, but it grew unaided in the cracks between paving slabs in our back garden. They look like chives, but they’re not.

Observed on a Cambridge street the other day.

Seen this morning.

Following a discussion thread about why there were so many used Leica M8s for sale, I came on these wonderful pics of Eric Clapton discovering that you don’t get a picture if you leave the lens cap on!
I guess he’s used to a DSLR.

Seen in a Cambridge graveyard today.


Olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Photographed by Annie.

… as a puzzled academic.
Note unused PC in background.

Our apple tree has done it again — just when we had our back turned. One day it was plain green, the next…
And the clematis is about to burst into flower too.

I know that, at my age, I ought to be able to take this stuff for granted. But it still seems like a miracle every year.

A moment frozen in time, captured at a recent symposium in Cambridge.