First Rule of Blip

Don't get separated from your camera! I did.

We are left with the desktop of my new laptop, and a shot of Ranunculus alpestris taken above Adelboden in Switzerland, June 2009. At least it's an alpine, although not a bona-fide, flowering today blip, like yesterdays .... and hopefully tomorrows :-)

Ranunculus alpestris, like many alpine buttercups is white flowered, often carpeting the ground in the mountains soon after the snow melts. Not as tricky to grow as its relative Ranunculus glacialis, the Glacier Buttercup, it needs moist well drained soil in sun or part shade. Probably easier in the north of the UK where at least one alpine nursery offers plants for sale.

And, yes, it was almost a self portrait!