I discovered this is a yeast cake (also known as Bundt cake) – with a long history…

These got me reading about hoverflies…

…and this bee was demonstrating its hovering skills for the camera.

A nice mummy swan giving her cygnets a tour of Coombe Pool.

This one was way too big for a tree hugger.

A scene in sunny Strasbourg…

A greetings card that got me reading about the meanings of baboon smiles…

Soft toy smiling pretzels in Strasbourg?! Really?

And some of the stranger artifacts of Strasbourg…

…and the Spring scenes since our return – with masses of blackberries beginning to flower around the bird box (unoccupied at present).