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Archive for March 15th, 2011

brimstone

Warm again today.  We ate lunch in the garden, and lay on the blankie briefly, during our lunch half hour. All this unprecedented sunshine has caught me out.. or more to the point, I have caught it, a little on my face.

It’s also brought the butterflies out.  I have already seen a few elderly red admirals and tortoiseshells, but today was I saw my first brimstone. It was happy to feed on some glory of the snow flowers, that are flowering under our huge bay tree.

I hope he has not come out of hibernation too early.

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