Lucy Corrander
@lucycorrander.bsky.social
Wild plants, gardening, allotment, photography. Arrived from the old Twitter. Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/
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On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander
https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/
https://messageinamilkbottle.blogspot.com/
On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander
It was summer when I woke this morning. By lunchtime autumn had returned.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It was summer when I woke this morning. By lunchtime autumn had returned.
Of the things I've wished for . . . a robin on my allotment. And at last I seem to have one. This one spends a lot of time singing in my apple tree - by which I hope he means he is claiming it as his. Here, he has flown down for a moment to sit on the earth of the empty next door plot. 7th Nov 2025
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Of the things I've wished for . . . a robin on my allotment. And at last I seem to have one. This one spends a lot of time singing in my apple tree - by which I hope he means he is claiming it as his. Here, he has flown down for a moment to sit on the earth of the empty next door plot. 7th Nov 2025
Rather fun to have tomatoes still in November. And, not only that, to have tomato flowers too!
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Rather fun to have tomatoes still in November. And, not only that, to have tomato flowers too!
In the mist and rain. Warley Moor and Reservoir. Calderdale, West Yorkshire. 19th October 2025
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In the mist and rain. Warley Moor and Reservoir. Calderdale, West Yorkshire. 19th October 2025
Not sure how many people have a favourite wall but I even have a favourite group of lichens on my favourite wall. You're lucky it isn't near enough for me to post these same lichens every day or you might get bored. I've been worried for them this very dry summer Do many people worry about lichens?
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Not sure how many people have a favourite wall but I even have a favourite group of lichens on my favourite wall. You're lucky it isn't near enough for me to post these same lichens every day or you might get bored. I've been worried for them this very dry summer Do many people worry about lichens?
Walking by reflections.
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025
October 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Walking by reflections.
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025
Nearly ready for picking. 13th October 2025
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Nearly ready for picking. 13th October 2025
Couldn't really be anything more beautiful - Lichens, Calderdale, 16th September 2025. If anyone is able to say what they are, it would be interesting.
September 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Couldn't really be anything more beautiful - Lichens, Calderdale, 16th September 2025. If anyone is able to say what they are, it would be interesting.
We are not currently allowed to use a hosepipe for flowers, only food crops. It's sad to see them drooping but I don't have time to keep all the flowers alive. The exception is this single cosmos plant in a pot, given me by a fellow allotmenteer, which I water along with the greenhouse tomatoes.
August 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
We are not currently allowed to use a hosepipe for flowers, only food crops. It's sad to see them drooping but I don't have time to keep all the flowers alive. The exception is this single cosmos plant in a pot, given me by a fellow allotmenteer, which I water along with the greenhouse tomatoes.
Apples on my allotment are doing well. They seem to go alternate years and this is the 'bumper' alternate. Most of them are too high to reach so I have to wait till they fall. (I'm at this moment cooking windfalls from a recent storm.) But some are right near the ground.
August 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Apples on my allotment are doing well. They seem to go alternate years and this is the 'bumper' alternate. Most of them are too high to reach so I have to wait till they fall. (I'm at this moment cooking windfalls from a recent storm.) But some are right near the ground.
Not doing too well with the allotment. The cucumbers have died and I've not been watering or feeding the tomatoes properly. But it chugs on and every bit of harvest is welcome. For me, the big deal is to enjoy what I can manage. Sometimes it's letting go. Sometimes it's sitting there in the evening.
August 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Not doing too well with the allotment. The cucumbers have died and I've not been watering or feeding the tomatoes properly. But it chugs on and every bit of harvest is welcome. For me, the big deal is to enjoy what I can manage. Sometimes it's letting go. Sometimes it's sitting there in the evening.
For your entertainment. The main road near my house has recently been resurfaced. Relentlessly!
August 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
For your entertainment. The main road near my house has recently been resurfaced. Relentlessly!
I will never know the names of all the shieldbugs and their multiple instars - someone might though . . . ? Here's one on an aubergine plant. 10th August 2025
August 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I will never know the names of all the shieldbugs and their multiple instars - someone might though . . . ? Here's one on an aubergine plant. 10th August 2025
I don't think the focus is as sharp on this camera as on my previous one but the colours are more accurate - so I'm pleased. The photos I've put here are cropped from bigger pictures because I haven't yet found how to change the depth of field . . . or something along those lines. Working on it!
August 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I don't think the focus is as sharp on this camera as on my previous one but the colours are more accurate - so I'm pleased. The photos I've put here are cropped from bigger pictures because I haven't yet found how to change the depth of field . . . or something along those lines. Working on it!
Foxglove seed cases with spiders webs and mobile seeds. 10th August 2025
August 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Foxglove seed cases with spiders webs and mobile seeds. 10th August 2025
For people who gave camera advice - in the end I bought a Panasonic DC-TZ99 for landscapes as well as insects. Haven't discovered macro setting yet so this is cropped from an ordinary snap. Might not be able to go mega-close to very small insects but will help with IDs. Pleased with accurate colour.
August 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
For people who gave camera advice - in the end I bought a Panasonic DC-TZ99 for landscapes as well as insects. Haven't discovered macro setting yet so this is cropped from an ordinary snap. Might not be able to go mega-close to very small insects but will help with IDs. Pleased with accurate colour.
A cropped image from June last year of a bee on a buttercup, cheerful and detailed - and one I took just now of a nasturtium - very murky! (Also cropped.) Horrid.
July 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A cropped image from June last year of a bee on a buttercup, cheerful and detailed - and one I took just now of a nasturtium - very murky! (Also cropped.) Horrid.
Thanks. Did you use the TG 6 for pictures like this? (Copied and pasted from your posts.) Cos that is very detailed!
July 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Thanks. Did you use the TG 6 for pictures like this? (Copied and pasted from your posts.) Cos that is very detailed!
Ever since I discovered a little red weevil in my greenhouse, I've been reluctant to chop its food source (Dock) down - and Ragwort is already welcome for the sake of its amazing colour and for Cinnabar moths and their caterpillars. Here being visited by a rather tatty Small Tortoiseshell #allotment
June 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Ever since I discovered a little red weevil in my greenhouse, I've been reluctant to chop its food source (Dock) down - and Ragwort is already welcome for the sake of its amazing colour and for Cinnabar moths and their caterpillars. Here being visited by a rather tatty Small Tortoiseshell #allotment
It's hard to keep concentrating on the proper allotment tasks when there are cheerful companions to notice around the place. Seven Spot ladybirds are theoretically common but it's a while since I've seen one. Mostly I notice Harlequins.
June 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's hard to keep concentrating on the proper allotment tasks when there are cheerful companions to notice around the place. Seven Spot ladybirds are theoretically common but it's a while since I've seen one. Mostly I notice Harlequins.
Cinnabar caterpillars always seem exotic - and their first appearance of the year is always a special moment.
June 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Cinnabar caterpillars always seem exotic - and their first appearance of the year is always a special moment.
'Forever Susan' lily outside my house. 15th June 2025
June 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
'Forever Susan' lily outside my house. 15th June 2025
@photography-aj.bsky.social Wondering if you might comment on these moths on my allotment. They look like Cinnabar Moths but their colouring is red and green. All the info. says Cinnabars should be red and black. Am I wrong in thinking these are Cinnabars or is something else going on do you think?
June 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
@photography-aj.bsky.social Wondering if you might comment on these moths on my allotment. They look like Cinnabar Moths but their colouring is red and green. All the info. says Cinnabars should be red and black. Am I wrong in thinking these are Cinnabars or is something else going on do you think?
Descriptions of Cinnabar Moths say they are red and black but these moths on my allotment are definitely red and green. 15th June 2025
June 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Descriptions of Cinnabar Moths say they are red and black but these moths on my allotment are definitely red and green. 15th June 2025
Small Tortoiseshell butterflies, Cinnabar moths, spiders and lots and lots of bees of different kinds on the allotment today. Plenty of buttercups still. Grasses and brambles beginning to flower. A neighbouring allotmenteer came to visit. 'Lots of weeds,' she said. 'Lots of wild flowers,' I replied
May 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Small Tortoiseshell butterflies, Cinnabar moths, spiders and lots and lots of bees of different kinds on the allotment today. Plenty of buttercups still. Grasses and brambles beginning to flower. A neighbouring allotmenteer came to visit. 'Lots of weeds,' she said. 'Lots of wild flowers,' I replied