Kneeling in the Mud

We had a lot of much needed rain last night. Unfortunately that meant that the ground was too soggy for me to get back to my digging.So I headed into the garden for a little session with the macro lens and found this beauty down in the hellebore patch. Odd man out amongst the green flowers.Nearby I found this Chinese Lantern Skeleton, I was kneeling in the mud (accidental, I wobbled) trying to get a decent macro shot whenmy very cute 'assistant', Sparky made me jump, when she pushed her sweet little face into the lens. I gave her a fussing and sent her off to earn her keep, catch a mouse, preferably a rat...I picked up the displaced Chinese Lantern and tried again. Very amusing, but not what I was after.

I gave up.



I did the ironing instead.





She probably did me a favour, the ironing basket is now empty!