CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  A leafless hawthorn hedge in the Tunstall valley, County Durham, shorn with geometric precision by a tractor-mounted hedge cutter, but dec...

  Seen on my walk into town this morning - an exquisite rain-glossed rosette of fresh, spoon-shaped succulent leaves of Danish scurvy-grass ...

 A freezing cold afternoon, but a swarm of these winter gnats Trichocer a sp. was dancing, in a shape-shifting column, above the garden hedg...