Hi All,
Just thought I'd do another of my odds and sods posts on things I see on my wanderings around the local. Not very exciting as usual but it's all the wee things that build up a picture in your head of your surroundings and often we ignore the mundane.
First of a member of the thistle family (as today in 1263 the Battle of Largs took place and it was supposedly a Norwegian stepping on one of these that saved the day and it becoming our national flower).
A couple of shots of Vetch looking all dewy and glistening in the morning.
Some purple vetch, this is one of my favourite little wayside snacks as when caught right the little "Peas" in the pods are just like mini garden peas.
Bumper crop of ASH keys this year. Unluckily for me I'm not to keen on the taste of pickled ash keys as I could have had heaps. Leaves are beginning to turn as ASH is the last to get and first to loose its leaves.
Good year for the ROWAN jelly lovers.
Looking down from one of the many bridges in the village, this one is by the old smiddy.
Climber twisting its way around and old umbrellafer.
Todays mystery fungi, (haven't looked it up, but I always find small fungi like this great to look at as there's always something otherworldly about them)
Some of our little mono footed pals showing off the Fibonacci sequence.
There's a lot of ergot fungus in the wild cereals this year round here. Must've been a pain in the posterior for our HG ancestors.
Ubiquitous spider shot to keep Harvestman happy
A lone ROWAN/Mountain Ash struggles amid the rocks?
Not really growing on top of an old stob. Best one I ever found was a Rowan growing out of a split in a Yew tree. Heaps of symbolism there for those of us so minded.
Some of the old chainsaw carvings of WWI troops down by the village war memorial. Looking back to the village and boot factory that supplied a lot of footwear to the troops.
Anyway have taken up enough of your time for today, hope it wasn't too boring for you.
TTFN,
GB.
Just thought I'd do another of my odds and sods posts on things I see on my wanderings around the local. Not very exciting as usual but it's all the wee things that build up a picture in your head of your surroundings and often we ignore the mundane.
First of a member of the thistle family (as today in 1263 the Battle of Largs took place and it was supposedly a Norwegian stepping on one of these that saved the day and it becoming our national flower).
A couple of shots of Vetch looking all dewy and glistening in the morning.
Some purple vetch, this is one of my favourite little wayside snacks as when caught right the little "Peas" in the pods are just like mini garden peas.
Bumper crop of ASH keys this year. Unluckily for me I'm not to keen on the taste of pickled ash keys as I could have had heaps. Leaves are beginning to turn as ASH is the last to get and first to loose its leaves.
Good year for the ROWAN jelly lovers.
Looking down from one of the many bridges in the village, this one is by the old smiddy.
Climber twisting its way around and old umbrellafer.
Todays mystery fungi, (haven't looked it up, but I always find small fungi like this great to look at as there's always something otherworldly about them)
Some of our little mono footed pals showing off the Fibonacci sequence.
There's a lot of ergot fungus in the wild cereals this year round here. Must've been a pain in the posterior for our HG ancestors.
Ubiquitous spider shot to keep Harvestman happy
A lone ROWAN/Mountain Ash struggles amid the rocks?
Not really growing on top of an old stob. Best one I ever found was a Rowan growing out of a split in a Yew tree. Heaps of symbolism there for those of us so minded.
Some of the old chainsaw carvings of WWI troops down by the village war memorial. Looking back to the village and boot factory that supplied a lot of footwear to the troops.
Anyway have taken up enough of your time for today, hope it wasn't too boring for you.
TTFN,
GB.
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