Natural Wonders
Somewhere Under the Rainbow
In our little corner of Cambridgeshire & Lincolnshire, we’ve found some pretty amazing natural wonders that manage to take your breath away. This glorious double rainbow appeared directly over our garden one evening in May this year. It’s so rare and so fleeting yet so awesome…even to jaded adult eyes!
Watch out for that duck!
Do you see the duck approaching Little Miss at speed from the right? Well, it got very close to pecking her teeny outstretched hand just after this picture was taken! The pigeons and ducks in The Meadows in Stamford are very familiar and are used to being fed. Rather, they demand to be fed. Unfortunately we were not properly equipped! Little Miss kept her distance after this brush with nature.
The night before Little Miss’ second birthday, hubby and I stayed up until 2am setting up her “garden cottage” and “trampo-treen” so she would have a big surprise awaiting her in the morning. I managed to catch a visitor in the dark of our garden and snapped a quick pick of him (or her). Unfortunately, the next night, whilst walking out in the garden I crunched either this visitor or one of their friends. Sorry Monsieur or Madame Escargot! I hate it when I do that!
Little Miss had the joy of holding nature in her two little hands this summer on a trip to Hunstanton Beach with her cousins. As they were rock pooling and crabbing, Little Miss was gifted with a tiny, dead crab which she clutched in her left hand for about 45 minutes. When we finally convinced her to let the crab go “back to his Mummy” in the sea, her hand positively STANK of dead, rank fish (or crab). It took several washing to cleanse her of her NATURE smell. But oh boy, was she happy!
This post is in support of Tara Cain’s Gallery which has a theme of NATURE for this week. Don’t miss out on the other amazing photos from glorious photographers who have me in awe every week.
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Great photo’s Rock pooling is one of my all time favourite things to do on holiday, when my daughter gets over the beach being “yucky” I hope she will enjoy it… *sigh*
What lovely pix! I was petrified of ducks as a child after a bit of finger nibbling. Nature is all well and good, but a safe amount of distance makes me less nervous
Lovely photos, the rainbow pic is stunning.
Beautiful photos, I love that rainbow, so well captured x
Great pics (and cute ones!). Loving the snail, so brilliant!
Wow, that rainbow shot is really impressive
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Gorgeous photos – I love rainbows and you’ve captured it so well in that photo!
Aw, great photos. That rainbow is quite special. Definitely a “right place, right time” shot. Of course, all these natural wonders are eclipsed by your little Miss. She’s gorgeous.
Thanks so very much Him Up North!
Little Miss is rather special…nice to hear it as well! 
Oooh how lovely! Each one better than the next! Love them all
That rainbow shot is fantastic:) Jen
Nice! Love the rainbow:-)
Your rainbow is beautiful
Love the nature shots….looks like a double rainbow to me. OF course my darling granddaughter is too cute,and I’m thinking much more brave than you were
Lovely photos, the rainbow is amazing! Love the rock pooling story too, I loved it to when I was little and look forward to taking Baby V
I love snails!! Awesome snail shot. Sorry too bout the “incident” the next day =S
That’s soooo funny, and also sweet, about the dead crab!
Wonderful photos – that first one is just stunning!