Wednesday 13 May 2015

Watching the Chimneys



Plant life will arise anywhere!  I noticed this settling itself on the neighbours chimney today.  A small seed somehow plants itself in a crevice and happily grows away knowing the owner not only cannot see it he will not dare climb up there to fix it.  
Any building, town or city left to itself soon becomes overgrown with what we often refer to as 'weeds.' Yet they are plants of some sort to another even if we cannot find much use for them.  The birds and bees and other beasties certainly make use of such as these and without them I suspect we would wither also. The variety of plant life in this world is astonishing when you stop for a moment to think about it. Those little blue flowers that I can never take a decent picture off, the crops that feed us, the trees that last hundreds of years and climb hundreds of feet into the sky are all a wonder, just grass in a variety of colours, sizes and shapes.  A walk through a well stocked 'country garden,' the type not favoured b y the BBC these days, gives a splash of colour and fragrance we could never copy.  
Just saying like....



The variety of bird life around us is also a wonder!  For a start it is a wonder that every time you press the button the brute turns his head the other way! They do this for spite I tell thee!  At least this one is calling his mate from a distance and not outside my door.  I am having trouble with Starlings however. My little bird feeder is meant for wee birds like Tits and Goldfinch but recently Starlings have discovered how to land on it for the wee white Suet Pellets that I give them.  This annoys me as the big birds hinder the wee ones and It's them I want.  Starlings are excellent birds but come in flocks rather than in pairs and chase away other birds.  I even saw a Wood Pigeon eyeing up the feeder considering how to get a handful from it.  



Up above we have been enjoying blue skies and thick clouds.  At least those who ventured outside. I remained indoors, working hard - for an hour - and wasting away otherwise.  At least I did some work on the WW2 exhibition, feeble I know but it was a start, and I am amazed at how much the lass has managed when I was shirking work.  The next thing is to search for downed aircraft, and there were a few, and bomb holes maybe.  
Oh suddenly my brain hurts.  I think I had better go and watch Forfar Athletic playing Alloa Athletic and let my mind cool down a bit.  Life can be so trying sometimes...  

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7 comments:

the fly in the web said...


If the jumble below works it is a pic of the poor old church in our town having trees removed from its fabric...

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Lee said...

I've got plants growing in the guttering on my cabin. I had a couple of fruit-bearing tomato plants up there a few months ago, too! lol

The birds are to blame...they deposit the seeds...either which way!

There's a lot of good mulch in my guttering. It's not linked to the property's water tank, though...so all is well in that well.

Adullamite said...

Fly, The jumble did not work, Blogger is not up to this! And Google failed also!

Lee, Tomato plants in the guttering? A back garden!

Kay G. said...

We have ox eye daises that grow in our yard and Richard carefully goes around them while he is cutting the grass. They are not native here, they come from England! Most call them weeds but we like them.

the fly in the web said...

Thought it might be too complicated to be true....but this church was built on land donated to 'the people' of the area....with materials and labour donated at a period when to move anything in from outside depended on ox carts...that is, in the 1930s.
It is on a fault line - but what is not in this area - and a combination of the the R.C. church, certain vested interests and the town council want to demolish it to make way for a leisure centre...

Luckily someone with gumption checked the land title in the Land Registry...title lies with 'the people'...not the church and not the council...so the poor old girl is still standing.

Lee said...

A top garden, Adullamite!

Adullamite said...

Fly, Once again I just found you in the back room!
Ah how clever to check the deeds! Someone will not be pleased.