This photograph was taken from his Shropshire home last winter (January 2015) by Tony Sargeant. This year there has been hardly any snow in the Corvedale, one or two light scatterings, and very few serious frosts. Is this simple periodic fluctuations in the weather pattern or is a sign of global warming?
In the early morning long shadows are cast across the Shropshire (UK) water meadows photographed from the bedroom window of his home by Anthony Sargeant. Clear skies over night give a crisp frosty winter’s morning.
A lovely quality antique Shirvan Runner in our collection
Anthony Sargeant bought this lovely 19th Century runner at auction in The Netherlands in the 1980s. It has a wonderful lustrous wool and good pile throughout. ends and side cords are in good condition.
Photographed by the front gate of his Shropshire home by Anthony J Sargeant
Photographed in the early morning while still covered in the dew of a misty autumn morning in Shropshire (UK) – a light diaphanous veil lies over all the hedgerows and bushes. Anthony Sargeant took this photograph on the morning of the 19th September 2015.
Tony Sargeant is holding a lovely fresh Hake – a fish much under-rated by the British.
It may not be the most immediately ‘pretty’ fish but it is very very good – Hake is a member of the cod family but in the opinion of many better tasting. But the majority of British fished hake goes to Spain and France (where it is properly appreciated). This fish costing £10 yielded nearly 1.5kg of filleted meat – which means a portion cost of 50p per 75 gram portion – which is ridiculously cheap – pure and extremely tasty protein ! Raw the flesh is slightly ‘soft’ but it firms up into ‘cod-like’ flakes on cooking – care needs to be taken as with all fish not to over-cook it. better slightly under-cooked than over-cooked.
Anthony Sargeant photographed this Peacock butterfly in Shropshire (UK) on the 11th September 2015.
Inachis io (The Peacock Butterfly) photographed by Anthony Sargeant on the white Buddleia in our Shropshire garden on the 11th September 2015. It has been a strange year for butterflies – so cool most of the summer and also breezy which has added a wind chill factor – as a consequence plant growth and flowering has been slow and erratic and without the flowers the butterflies have not appeared in our Shropshire (UK) garden.
Anthony J Sargeant took this photograph of Painted Lady Butterfly in Shropshire in September
It has been a strange season in the garden here in Shropshire (UK) – the buddleia was late flowering and the butterflies were late in arriving in our garden – but at last in early September we saw a host of them.
Anthony J Sargeant took this photograph in his garden at the beginning of September
Rubeckia is so sparkling in the garden even in September. Generally though this has not been a good year here in Shropshire, England, for plants and flowers. It has been cool and windy which has created a wind chill effect which has inhibited plant growth.
Anthony J Sargeant took this photograph of butterflies on the 7th September 2015
Anthony Sargeant took this photograph in his Shropshire garden on the 7th September 2015. After a very cool summer there has suddenly been a host of butterflies as the buddleia which was very late coming into bloom this year. In this photograph Small tortoiseshell butterflies and a Comma butterfly can be seen.
Anthony J Sargeant took this photograph from the bedroom window of his Shropshire home on the 5th September 2015. Late Summer? or early Autumn?
Anthony J Sargeant wonders if perhaps we are about to experience that phenomenom known in the UK as “An Indian Summer” a period of late summer-like weather in the autumn.
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