Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

The flower of a tea plant, Camellia sinensis, in the garden of the Hogon-in temple in Arashiyama, Kyoto. As a tea addict I was very pleased to stumble upon this tea bush in flower. The temple ground also had a wonderful tea house. Tea has been grown in Japan since the 9th century so they know what they are doing!.

A ruby-crowned kinglet.

A male cardinal in an apple tree.

A white trillium: a common woodland flower of Springtime.

Yellow magnolia

Newton, at the British Library, London. A statue by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1995, that is based on William Blake's print "Newton: Personification of Man Limited by Reason." Blake was not a fan, and I wonder what Newton, who was deeply religious, would have thought of being portrayed naked for all the world to see?

A black carpenter ant.

The flowers of the serviceberry tress (shadberry or Amelanchier), growing beside a small lake, St. Bruno, Quebec.

Narrow-leafed sweet pea. This is an invasive plant from Europe that has "gone wild" in parts of Canada.

Moonlight at dusk.

The bronze head of Raoul Wallenberg, from a church garden in central Montreal. Wallenberg was a Swedish businessman and diplomat who, at great personal risk, worked in Budapest to rescue Jews from deportation during the Second World War. He was arrested by the Soviet forces as they advanced across Europe and "disappeared". It is assumed he died in captivity, although the details of his death are a mystery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg

Feathers and daffodil.

Fern unfurling.

The Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, from Cap St. Albans, Forillon, looking towards Percé and l'Île Bonaventure, Gaspé Peninsula as the ocean and the river meet.

Ice cold melt water rushing downstream.(It looks like a black and white photo, but it was taken in full colour).

This was taken a few years ago, from a walk on the South Downs in Sussex, England. I don't know much about lichens (almost nothing in fact) but this looks like two different forms growing together.

Round-leaved hepatica, one of the first woodland wildflowers to bloom in the spring before the leaves on the trees open and shade the ground.

A young raccoon in winter searching for food. They sleep most of the winter, coming out only in the warmer spells to feed. Raccoons are usually nocturnal but feed by day in the winter to avoid the colder temperatures at night.