More from In the Garden Set For those wondering the core was already there but I did place the other whole one on the bench. This is taken in the La Cock grounds, where photography was born.
conkers
Horse chestnuts (conkers)
...and now for something completely different.
Just a bunch of Horse Chestnuts or Conkers as we call them over here.
Just a bunch of Horse Chestnuts or Conkers as we call them over here. A second image with a different background.
Horse Chestnut or Conker with light and shadow
The leaves had fallen yet they prepared the ground for the new growth in the conker seed
A hugeThanks to my friend |anthony for giving me an idea to shot this subject..hope you like it and you all!
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Conkers is a game traditionally played by children in Britain, the Republic of Ireland and some former British colonies using the nuts of horse-chestnut trees – the name conker is also applied to the nut and to the tree itself. The game is played by two players, each with a conker threaded onto a piece of string: they take turns to strike each other’s conker until one breaks.
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Wild parrots settle in suburbs / By Sean Coughlan / BBC News education The number of wild parrots living in England is rising at 30% per year, says an Oxford University research project. Parks and gardens in the leafy London suburbs have been adopted as a preferred habitat by birds that are native to southern Asia. In the Surrey stockbroker belt, a single sports ground is believed to be home to about 3,000 parrots. The rate of increase, helped by mild winters, is much greater than had been expected. The findings have also been echoed by a large number of e-mails from BBC News Online readers, who have reported how parrots – particularly parakeets – have now become familiar sights. Parrot hotspots These hundreds of e-mails, including photographs, highlighted hotspots such as west of London, Surrey and parts of Kent. Parakeets in King George Park in Ramsgate / Parakeets in King George Park in Ramsgate, / But there were also parrots reported in inner-London, including parks in Peckham, Brixton, Greenwich and Kensington. And a few parrots had been spotted in East Anglia, the North West and in Scotland. There were also sightings from readers overseas, reporting urban parrots in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain and the United States. E-mails from readers also offer a range of theories about the arrival of parrots in Britain – including that they were brought by Jimi Hendrix, that they escaped during the making of a film and that they were released from aviaries damaged during the great storm of 1987. Researchers have been tracking several varieties of parakeet, originally from countries such as India and Brazil, but which are now surviving in ever-greater numbers in southern England. The findings, from Oxford University’s Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, give a glimpse of exotic creatures in unlikely places. / Last summer, there were areas of woodland that sounded more like equatorial rain forest than suburban parkland. / Adam Tandy, Richmond / Alexandrine parakeets have been spotted by Lewisham crematorium and orange-winged parakeets, native to the Amazon, have now set up home in Weybridge. South American monk parakeets have formed a colony in Borehamwood and blue-crowned parakeets were observed in Bromley. There have been reports that there could now be 20,000 wild parrots, including parakeets, living in England, with the largest concentration around London and the South East. The population boom has been put down to a series of mild winters, a lack of natural predators, food being available from humans and that there are now enough parrots for a wider range of breeding partners. In particular, they have been observed in growing numbers in the outer suburbs and the Home Counties, with trees in parkland and sports grounds becoming their homes. / taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3869815.stm
Shot on a street in Pymble, Sydney, in April 2007.
I’ve made a few changes to this! I loved the original shot but after having a play, I love this more! It has a more nostalgic feel to it, and the textures I’ve used give it a warmer light. Taken in the woods near Blickling Hall, Norfolk. The couple were very busy collecting conkers! Canon EOS 450D. Texture from here, plus one of my own.
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