Squirrel food

One of the things I love about Blipfoto (apart from all the lovely fellow Blippers, of course) is that I find myself looking out for subjects and taking photos that I would probably never have considered without the need to find a daily blip.

It so happened this morning that, after I’d dead headed the roses, I spotted a couple of dead oak twigs that had dropped down onto the lawn, and walked over to pick them up. With the first one in my hand, I then stopped abruptly and said to Smithers (who had come out to observe the gardener at work), “I’ve just got to go and get my camera!”. I then came back out into the garden and proceeded to lie full length on the parched lawn to take this photo. The getting up again took somewhat longer.

I was pleased with the end result, because I thought it summed up the last few weeks of drought conditions perfectly – a dying lawn, onto which acorns are now falling in mid July, well before their allotted time.