For details of Butterfly Sculptures see Butterflies and Other Metal Sculptures
Valley Creations covers the interests of Steve Scott and Ruth Love. There is information here on gardening, painting, drawing, sculpture, family and social history, cooking, carpentry, chair making and green woodwork. Steve sometimes takes tours round the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and helped look after the local cycle paths for Sustrans, the national cycle network charity. Ruth is very interested in social justice and volunteers for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust at Stirley Farm and the RSPB in various places. She is active in the Green Party and was a member of Hexadaisy Morris Side.
Latest Garden Post:
- Nest Box – Finally
It is nearly 20 years since I moved into this house and there were old, unused, nest boxes here then. Those were put up by Ruth who arrived here 10 years earlier. Despite that we’ve put up several since. One was hidden in a conifer about 20m away from where I film with an old Fairphone 3 but just about visible from that angle. Then wood pigeons nested and played trampolines on one of the branches and the following winter snows made a big gap in that part of the conifer.
Still no sign of activity, other than a quick investigation. Suddenly from another room, I spotted a bird going in, so rushed up and set things up. Over several days there have now been multiple sightings. Hurrah.
The first video is the best so far. The second just illustrates the effect of a change of wind direction on temperatures and thus insect activity in early April.