over the last week a few hours have been spent out in the garden, on some required 'tidying-up tasks', pruning back overgrown hedges and shrubs, fixing up fences (there is always more work to do, it seems).back in the summer i took these two photographs of a blackbird's nest that i had discovered in one hedge, images which i later accidentally erased (hence the previous post on rescuing deleted photographs from a camera) but i have found them again, safe and well...
[a blackbird's nest, 18 july 2010]from the two blackbirds i had observed nesting in the tangle of clematis prunings earlier in the spring, i found a new nest in a different location - a small incident of nature quietly at work...
[baby blackbirds, 25 july 2010]in the autumn clear-up i have subsequently discovered many more birds nests of varying sizes and designs, suggesting that the areas of the garden which were left most undisturbed had become a sanctuary to nature... and i did wonder if any of the garden birds would be returning to use these nests again in the spring; i found the answer to whether birds do or don't reuse their nests on the RSPB website...
yesterday, i spied this intricate drawing on a leaf...
does this humble garden 'scene' exude a little of the wabi sabi aesthetic, mentioned in the previous post, about art and wabi sabi? it is part of the boundary fencing that my neighbour had put up a few years ago (sans chamber pot, of course) - i like it, even though it is far from perfect......