Steve Caple

'Look deeply into the eyes of a dog and you will see the love and adoration that lies within its soul, the dog should be able to see the same'.

They appear every year, nice Common Darter around the garden pond this morning.🥰

Interesting find, a lead, bird feeder/drinker for a caged bird. Flat backed, semi-circular frontage. Late medieval.

Cock Hotel, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, still trading, although architecturally, it is much altered.🥰

Pollen covered bee working in the garden.🥰

Tending the garden at Bridge Street Station, Northampton.

It appears the season might be way ahead of itself this year, probably due to the prolonged warm spell. Conkers already fairly advanced and the acorns are now forming nicely.🥰

All the sheep are laying down.....rain incoming maybe.🤔

Abington Street, Northampton, Co-op arcade and library on the right.

An outing in a Brake, for Kingsley park Methodist Church members. Northampton, 1900.

Whatever happens today, you won't beat this for surrealism: I have just witnessed a lovely, elderly Chinese gentleman, do a forward-roll on the grass verge outside my house, watched by his wife. They then continued their walk along the street. ❤️❤️

Tranquillity Base🥰

Despite the wet spell, the Cinnabar Moth caterpillars are still managing to decimate the Ragwort plants.

After being cast at Barwell & Co.'s Eagle Foundry in Northampton, 1863, the Market Fountain (erected to commemorate a royal wedding) stood for just shy of 100years, eventually being dismantled in 1962.

Looks like a picture editing morning in the office, due to the rain, time to put 100's of old photographs in some kind of chronological order.@Clays2Game_Lady

Gatekeepers (male) on Ragwort. So named because of their habit of flying along hedgerows near to field gates (apparently)🥰

A Brimstone Moth sheltering in my raspberry canes.

A very early depiction of Northampton Market.

Its been a Silver-Washed Fritillary day today, at Bucknell Woods and also the scarce Valezina. This form, is a colour variation, seen in a small percentage of female Silver-washed Fritillaries. Both were a first for me.🥰

Tiny little Plume Moth in the garden this morning.

Wood Hill, Northampton, looking towards the Market Square. Duke of Clarence pub is the white rendered building.