Nature – Maria Donovan

Last on the card – March primroses

April 4, 2025

The ancestors of these primroses jumped into a plant pot in Wales and made a journey…

Sunset on 2023

January 1, 2024

This is my last photo for December: a timely goodbye to 2023, and my offering for Bushboy’s Last on the Card photo challenge.

White-out on Black Down

December 1, 2023

The view from Hardy’s monument in Dorset is best known for its breath-taking panorama…

August Surprise!

September 8, 2023

I’m always surprised by the last photo I took for the month. This time it’s the allotment, which feeds me and my imagination. Join in with Bushboy’s Last on the card challenge.

Late strawberries

June 16, 2023

My last post contained a little mystery – the only puzzle this time is how come it takes me over two weeks to join in with Brian’s Last on the card challenge!

Half light half dark – September Equinox

September 23, 2022

The September Equinox is here. A few photos looking back over the last season.

A Solstice to remember

June 24, 2022

A baker’s dozen of local photos from the March Equinox to the June Solstice 2022

12 from 21

January 1, 2022

Odd looking back through a year in pictures, to see them in a mass stretching back ‘to this time last year’. I picked 12 of my nature photos – it seems I like shadows, odd angles and the sea.

I had no idea what my last photo for August would be: the one with the pumpkin bigger than my head? A rowan tree in distress – blossoming at the same time as it’s fruiting? No: it’s this accidental photo.

Last Photo for July

August 4, 2021

The challenge (thanks, Brian) is to show the last photo on your SD card or phone for July – unedited and with no comment. See Bushboy’s post for all the details.

Maria Donovan

facts and fiction

Tag: Nature