On a recent walk around the local historical site of Khao Wang (Hill Palace) in Petchaburi, Thailand, I was grateful for the shade thrown by the many frangipani trees, although, as they are not very leafy

An extreme sport for tropical gardeners? Thrill Seeker - In darkened crack, Of baked summer clay, Reckless fingers delve, Their gloomy hideaway. Reaching for the wriggle, A burst of scratchy feet,

Cycling some rural backroads in the lowland plains of Thailand

The irresistible combination of flowers and blue sky from our garden in Thailand

We have two types of sunbird around our garden here in Thailand: the olive-backed and the brown-throated. And they both steal nectar from flowers.

There are so many leaves around us that sometimes perhaps we forget to appreciate them. Those wonderful little energy transformers. The original solar panels. So many shapes and sizes and so much beauty,

Another instalment of my mini-poem garden journal. One per day about something from our garden, which sits amongst the rice-fields and sugar-palm trees of Petchaburi Province in Thailand. 1st Feb: Diving

This set of images look like they should be from autumn/fall but living in Thailand that's not the case. It's currently swelteringly hot here but it is also extremely dry so many plants have shed their

I posted about this street art project in my local town of Petchaburi (Thailand) last year. Then wandering the market recently I realised that there are several new artworks on display, so here is an update

I'd love to help but it won’t be me scolding the lumbering cows. The two lapwings will stand their ground against the lurching muscle that's a thousand times their own weight. Wings spread and “kecking”

It's such a shame to think of Mimosa as a weed but it does straggle around the place so much and those snaggy little thorns have drawn my blood and splintered their ends in my fingers too often. Not a

They are not stunning and most visitors probably don't even notice them but I love that many of the shops and homes around the market area of my adopted home in Petchaburi, Thailand, still have wooden

A topic like transportation could easily get lost in the nostalgia of bygone times and a yearning for the ways of a different age. So that's what I am going to do. I'll start with this symbolic photograph

An awkward crunch as I lie on my belly like a beached walrus. Shards of dry leaf become embedded in my fore-arms and legs. A few ants amongst them let me know they don't like having their world carelessly

Ask a Thai person about places worth visiting in their area and you will usually be given a list of temples. Along with markets and malls for shopping, temples are the go-to sites. Thai life, particularly

Red weaver ants live in trees but if there are not enough tree-to-tree aerial routes they will make tracks along the ground to help them forage. However, even here they will use any fallen twig, grass

Yesterday I posted some pictures of birds in a Thai Buddhist temple. I then noticed this week's monochrome theme for the show-me-a-photo contest. Rather than use the same photos, I had enough left-overs

Not much chance of seeing any unusual birds in an urban temple but the common ones will be there and the setting can make for some interesting photographic compositions. Most Buddhist temples in Thailand

The sun is slipping towards the horizon and losing intensity as it goes. It's time to shake off the afternoon's heat-induced laziness and get outside. For many this would be a golden hour, for some even

Water monitor lizards are common throughout Thailand. They particularly love the wet of the lowlands and the bountiful waste of humanity. The parks, canals and drains of Bangkok, for example, produce some