As one climate change catastrophe follows swiftly after another – the devastating flash floods in Nepal being the latest to dominate our news feeds – and as we see image after image of calamity and grief, it is easy to feel helpless. But as well as supporting rescue and recovery initiatives as best we can from afar, we can help by taking care of the natural environment in our own neighbourhoods. I photographed this beautiful waterlily last Friday. I was…
By Maria Strutz Thursday afternoon I stepped outside into bright sunshine, and the ground was white, and it looked as if it had snowed quite heavily. Looking more closely I noticed that the white consisted of individual hailstones, lots of them, and it surprised me that they had ‘stayed’ and hadn’t immediately melted away. It was May after all… I decided to go to Albion Millenium Green and found the paths of the Green covered thickly in white hailstones, surrounded…
Thanks (again) to local resident and photographer Sharon Vardi for this atmospheric photograph of labyrinth walking on Albion Millennium Green. In the foreground, one of the many vibrant yet delicate Meadow crane’s-bill blossoms currently in in full flower.
We are sharing these lovely photographs taken on the Green earlier this month by Sharon Vardi. On the left is a close-up of the glorious sea of buttercups on the grassy area by the pond. Last year we held back on cutting the grass during May (“no mow May”) and we have found that there has been a great improvement in the grass quality – I don’t remember there being such a beautiful swathe of yellow last year. On the…
We (the Friends of Albion Millennium Green) were thrilled to receive this photograph of the Green viewed from above, from the home of one of our neighbours. (They wished to remain un-named.) What a treat to get this alternate view on this space that we love. And how gratifying to see the evidence of the work we carried out on the last Workday (8 March) when we were spreading fresh woodchip onto the paths. The path, seen from this angle,…