Bee's Blog

Day before yesterday, while walking down the council drain, a bunch of feathers trailed along the top of the water. I followed the trail and it led to a hawk, which flew off hastily. There below the light fence of wire, and beyond the grassy bank in the drain water, was a body of a young male duck. The hawks are hungry, and I guess, something had to give. Now all the other ducks and ducklings that the drain had recently accumulated have disappeared. Which reminds me of the 10 ducklings we rescued a while back.

The story behind the 'About' page picture of Patio Pam.

On the ‘About’ page there is a picture of Ritchie the Macaw. What the ‘About’ picture doesn’t show you is…

…and then up pops the family and catches you…

involving an old 1985 GSXR Suzuki for this illustration…

…as insects begin to climb and sit on the tips of the grass to enjoy the sun.

After reading a news story about how the grocery and bottle stores are being caught supplying the underage with alcohol…

So much better to have a bottle of wine with corks to play with…

I was out photographing on a misty morning when I came across quite a
character…

From this surveillance a birthday card was born…

Some time ago, for research…

…and the drawing outcome was a bit sad and fun, and even an evocative challenge.

There are at least four little rabbits living under the A-frame shed…

Dog to man, 'Woo woo woo WOO woo!' Man replies, 'You are right, this has been a great day out!' Interpretation 101 of what the dog actually said was, 'I just done BIG wees.'

Lots of young birds have hit the windows or have been abandoned by their parents and I need to get to them before the neighbourhood cats (sometimes stray) or hedgehogs get them. Many times I seem to be in the right place at the right time…