The March Cat

Cats go mad in March, not only hares. They scramble to get into and onto all sorts of new and unexpected places. 

My Vassily has adopted this kitchen radio, besides the chessboard, the laundry sack, the cosmetics box and the printer top. It wouldn't have been a great problem if he hadn't switched it off in the middle of the Archers or on – at full blast – in the middle of the night.

Snowy.

This is a portrait of my dog Strelka. He is a Golden Retriever with a very light coat, practically white.

It started snowing when I was running with him the other day in the woods. Strelka fell behind to sniff around. When I looked back I couldn't see him, then I saw him, blending with the snow.

La fonte des neiges/Snow Melting.

It's still bitterly cold but this happy stream ignores the freeze.

A Winter Sunrise.

A winter sunrise with wind turbines facing the Sun.

Photo by Alexander Anichkin.

The Green Grasshopper.

This photo is from last Summer. A huge green grasshopper flew into my study and sat for a while watching me working. He was at least two inches (5cm) long. What a creature!


Photo ©A.Anichkin 2011.

A Perfect Porcino (Penny Bun).

Ceps, or porcinos, or penny buns, are the most delicious variety of edible mushrooms in our parts (Boletus edulis). Maggots and slugs appreciate them too, but here in Norman Bocage it is not rare to find a perfectly clean cep. Here is one I've just sliced for a quick fry (they don't need cooking at all, certainly not overcooking).

Read about ceps on Wikipedia here.

Photo by ©A.Anichkin.

Higher Power (Jurques)

Here is another 'HP' photo in my 'higher power' series. A well looked after roadside crucifix in Montamy, near Jurques, Calvados, has a mobile phone mast and an elelctricity line towering over it.


Photo ©A.Anichkin2011