Its Autumn nearly, here is my first Conker I found walking to work last night
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." (~Abram L. Urban)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2006
(1574)
-
▼
September
(122)
- Chelsea and Cakes...
- A garden torch through Autumn and Winter
- Back garden view
- A Rose
- Work and Busy lizzies
- Saturday in the Garden
- The elements have been cruel to the Sun man.He has...
- Rose sunshine, the flower looks like an ancient gr...
- Baking Friday
- Rain and Cakes
- Reflections on spiders
- Days off are here
- I worked early today, and fell asleep this afterno...
- Sunday night
- September 16th
- Home made day
- Dandelion flowers, picking them caused a third blo...
- Monarda flowers
- Three mushrooms dried out on the playhouse roof
- Anemone again...
- hosta busy lizzie and anemone
- Hosta's in the sunlight
- Rose hit by buckshot
- View through side window in kitchen
- Suprise visitor
- Night time reflections
- Viola faces
- Roses
- Anemone De Caen flowering months late
- Arched border
- Square border
- Grass keeps growing, rain delay though..
- Kitchen window border sans snapdragons
- Two Dahlia flowers
- New gnome from Cleethorpes
- Laptop Disaster
- Days off
- Rain and thunderstorm
- Night time after my late shift..
- In context, with gnome..
- red one
- Closer..
- Nasturtium
- buzz moving up rose petal
- buzz
- Different rose, different fly
- fly ahoy
- Orange tea rose
- Under gardener checking the quality of the Violas ...
- Arch way cascading with morning glory, flanking th...
- Sigruns Hollyhock seedling, something was hungary...
- Dahlia looking scrumptious
- Fuschias, pink angels..
- Roses, the colours are better in sunlight
- Under gardener lazing in sunshine
- Past the church on the corner..
- Bottom flower stalk is clearer
- Another fav plant growing on hillside verge.Dont k...
- Sunshine after the fog
- Hanging onto the pavement from the iron fence
- My fav flowering weed.Been dying to photograph it....
- The tree's on Pontefract road on my way home..
- But Sunny by 3pm after my early shift
- Like old London pea soup..
- Foggy morning at 6am...
- Glads that had keeled over, now beautiful cut flow...
- For Kerri the Monarda (or collinsia lol),exqusite ...
- Nasturtium with pale orange flower and clown fish ...
- Sunrise serenade in the twighlight
- Still flowering en masse
- Sunshine rose flowers, yellow/orange colour and th...
- Rose Sunshine blooms
- White busy lizzie, i tried to grow these for years...
- Of Mushrooms and magic
- Space Cat
- UK Bob
- Roses are my sunshine in the grey rainy days.
- There was a spider between the fir tree and the he...
- Monarda in flower, how do you collect the seeds?
- Monarda growing bigger than the hebe..
- Beautiful flowers...
- The purple flowers of a hebe i think?
- Glads again
- Tia moved her face to look at me closer.
- Pale blue/lilac Gladiolus
- morning glory luminescent
- how about them conkers?from Wikipedia
- Night time insomnia
- Conkers Link
- Crocodile Hunter
- The under gardener supervising the photos being ta...
- Another day, a new mushroom growing on the grass
- Breakfast...im sooooooooo hungary..
- Orange and red
- Morning glory after my three night shifts
- Look what flowered en masse after i said it never ...
- Hello is it time to go inside now?8am this morning
- Orange tea rose
- sunrising
- Fiery sky..
-
▼
September
(122)
5 comments:
You've brought back memories of my school days snappy. Do the kids still play conkers at school, we used to soak them in vinegar to harden them up, and we'd say it was a three'er or four'er depending on how many they cracked, I was never that good at it.
Snappy, I assume a Conker is a chestnut? Do you gather them and roast them over an open fire? Maybe a little Dandelion wine with that?
I played the same game at school.I read today England was the only country known to play it.I have a link i found, will post it..
Trey they are horse chestnut's but not the sweet ones that are roasted and sold from mobile carts on cold winters days.
Snappy, these look like what I call buckeyes, a relative of horse chestnuts. I assume you call the "conkers", because when they fall from the trees, if you stand underneath, you can get "conked" on the head.
Carol they are horse chestnuts.I did read deers and horses like to eat them.We humans have sweet chestnuts.These are inedible relatives, "horse chestnuts".I read conkers is maybe a slang version of a french word to hit..I will post the link so you can see.
Post a Comment