The great thing about Thursdays is not having my first customer til 9.30, which means I can go for a walk with MeWally first thing.
This morning all the grasses were in full bloom .... as much as they can be ....
The effect when looking across a rise in the meadow is a veneer of maroon, dusting lightly across it's surface.
This Plantain looks as if it's had its' hair done n readiness for the festival season.
Sometimes we come across flattened patches of grass, just like this one, where a deer, or fox, has rested up. If I made a little more effort and had a sniff around, literally, I'd probably which mammal had been here.
I DIDN'T, SO I DON'T!
This walk has a reasonable ORCHID display in June. The leaves have been around for about 6 weeks on some plants, others are only just showing.
Ash trees have this tangle of leaves at the moment. They look more like a mass of seeds to me.
Speedwell is everywhere now. When I was a kid, they were called BIRDS EYES. If you knocked the flower off the plant, which was really easy to do, you were supposed to go blind: not 'one day' in the dim and distant future, but straight away. It was an extreme sport, seeing how many we could decapitate before it ALL WENT BLACK. Never happened, of course, but it was fun trying.
At last. THIS MEANS IT'S SUMMER. CUCKOO SPIT. The first of the year. Not much of it about yet in the rest of the meadow.
Birds Foot Trefoil - I reckon, but could be wrong; seems a little early to me
On to my customer's for a day in the gardens.
In the garden of a Nailsworthy I stumbled across 2 quite different Frogs sitting at the edge of their small, but perfectly formed, pond.
At my final customer's house we were surprised to see this unusual and very large Bee. We noticed it because it was aggressively beating itself against their window in a desperate attempt to leave the building
When I finally got home, I was greeted by the sweet song of this Song Thrush singing from the top of a neighbours' Cedar Tree.
A long and lovely day.
On to my customer's for a day in the gardens.
In the garden of a Nailsworthy I stumbled across 2 quite different Frogs sitting at the edge of their small, but perfectly formed, pond.
At my final customer's house we were surprised to see this unusual and very large Bee. We noticed it because it was aggressively beating itself against their window in a desperate attempt to leave the building
When I finally got home, I was greeted by the sweet song of this Song Thrush singing from the top of a neighbours' Cedar Tree.
A long and lovely day.
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