C.Rayz's photos

Just a few nice moths we had last fall that I wanted to post up and add to the collection :)

Just a few nice moths we had last fall that I wanted to post up and add to the collection :) This one is quite rare, its a male, the female has the spots, but loads recorded in Sussex last year. NFU

Just a few nice moths we had last fall that I wanted to post up and add to the collection :)

Playing nice and letting me get a shot last fall

A small area in Combe Haven that I can almost predict to find these, another shot from last fall.

Couldn't believe the colors in this, was too amazing not to share :) I do love my balcony!

A wild weather day pre '40 day floods' weather, the storm just above the sea was really impressive, but the rays showed well on camera... just another sky from this winteryness from the patio

Another from last fall, just like the fireworks :)

Brilliant stems and a new species of Orchid for me!!

Close up of flowers, almost fully open. I have no idea if the neighbour mowed them down or not after this..

They have a lovely spiraling stem of flowers, although from a distance they aren't much to look at unless you are an Orchid chaser like me..haha

Last fall I wondered over to pay my landlady, whom lives not far from us in town. I was going up her path and noticed about 20 of these little plants. She wasn't in so I had a close look at them. I was almost sure they were an Orchid of some sort. I went home and looked them up in my collins book, sure enough Lady's Tresses!! I went back the next day, wet and windy day and said....Don't mow them! I'll be back as soon as its sunny to photograph them. She's a bit elderly and frankly the word Orchid may as well have been the word weed, sure enough two days later they had all been mowed!! I was gutted, but as I was leaving a thought! Neighbours!! Sure enough her next door neighbour hadn't mowed and she had three of them in her front garden. Both ladies lived in thier house many years and neither of them remembered ever seeing them before. The neighbour allowed me to crawl around in her yard and photograph them, and was quite impressed she had wild Orchids growing in her yard. You can see here, how tiny they are, when the dandelion (to the right) is as tall or taller in some cases.

I have loads of these up, but they are so photogenic, I can't help myself...

A few from last falls patio lives :)

Can be pretty :)

Hesperia comma