Tag: trees
Author:
Robert E Fuller
A Rare, Living Elm On the wooded slope of a valley that sweeps away from my home and gallery in Thixendale, grows one of England’s rarest species: a magnificent old elm tree. This big, beautiful, tree is one of just a handful of living elms left in the country. At one time these elms dominated the English landscape. But more than 60 million were killed in an epidemic of Dutch Elm Disease that all but […]
Author:
Robert E Fuller
I have an enormous old tree stump that I hoisted many years ago into the branches of a sycamore tree outside my living room window in the hope of attracting owls to nest in it. Over the years it has been home to barn owls, kestrels and tawny owls. And I have painted them again and again perched at its gnarled entrance. Then this month a surveillance camera I have trained onto the stump captured […]
Author:
Robert E Fuller
Welcome to my ‘Wildlife Photo of the Week’ slot, where each week I pick a photograph from the studies I make for my paintings. Feel free to scroll down and see previous week’s photographs – and why not pick your own favourite and tell my why you like it in the comment box below? December 25th Waxwings flock to our shores each Christmas to escape harsh winters in their native Scandinavia and to plunder our […]
