A beautifully sunny Dandelion, a Clover that’s just given its nectar to a bee and an Autumny Ivy leaf in glorious colours with a single rain drop.
I’m better! The after effects of the flu jab have dissipated.
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Colour on Today’s Walk
Flat Lode, Petrichor and Pinks
We did our circuit around a small part of The Flat Lode Trail this evening – it’s not flat! It is called that because the tin/copper ore under the ground here is relatively level but it doesn’t make for a flat walk! Shafts of sunlight were coming through the trees.
Path up to The Flat Lode Trail
We have had many hot and dry days, happily not as hot as in London, and suddenly this evening there was a short, sharp shower and the air was filled with that magical smell of petrichor. I have to leave you to imagine that as I couldn’t photograph the beautiful scent.
We were struck this evening by almost all the wild flowers being shades of pink/purple. Enjoy the gallery and if you can id those I haven’t managed, feel free to comment and help me out.
Wild Buddleia
Bramble
Foxglove
Hemp Agrimony Also known as ‘Raspberries and Cream’ Thanks to Jude
Pink Campion
Heather
Fireweed
For those who love words as I do – and petrichor is one of my favourites, it is “the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek petra(πέτρα), meaning “stone”, and īchōr (ἰχώρ), the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology.”
A Warm Windy Walk on Boxing Day
I am so very happy! Today I have done a proper walk around the back, a walk that I have not done for over a year. That steroid injection has put me back to where I was before the rotten seats at the cinema in October and I can walk happily again, up hills, on rough ground, nearly being blown over and I feel fabulous! Join us by looking at our gallery, almost every photo out of focus as the wind was so very strong but showing what is in flower right now in this unseasonably warm weather.
Palm trees in the wind
Gorse
Wheal Uny
Wheal Uny
Bramble flowers
Pink Campion
Celandine
Catching Up On Three Days
5th June
Honeysuckle
6th June I baked a cake to sell at a Ceilidh that was held last night to raise funds for a volunteering trip to Uganda.
Victoria Sponge to sell at the ceilidh
Beautiful hedgerow flowers for the tables
Today – the sun is shining and this Iris has bloomed.
Iris
Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape – into our Flower-filled Cornish Lanes
Our Cornish hedges are filled with colour at the moment, pinks, whites and blues abound with golds and soft yellows and the lime greens of new leaf growth. As we drive by, these all become beautiful blurs of mixed hues so I walked around the block, as it were, to capture the colours for you. I wish I could also bring you the quietness, the birdsong, the smells and the peace that came with taking all these photos for you. Click on any photo for more detail.
Bluebells with a Gren Veined White butterfly
Primroses
Pennywort with flowers
Pink Valerian
Pink Valerian close-up
Hedge bottom
Glorious golden Gorse or Furze
Dandelion
Cow Parsley
Celandine
Three Cornered Leeks – their stems are triangular and they are edible.
Blue and gold
Dog Violets, also edible
English Pink and Bluebells
Pink Campion
Celandines
Foxgloves in bud
Fiddlehead ferns
White dead nettle, edible
Bright green new growth of Crocosmia
Bluebells and Three Cornered Leeks
Delicate dandelion seedhead
Pink Clover
Is this a Lesser Stitchwort?
Copper Beech, Mating Butterflies and Wind Whipped Flowers
1 The wild winds of yesterday shredded next door’s Copper Beech leaves and blasted them against our windows like a dark red confetti. Lit up by the sun this morning, the leaf shows all its beauty, its veining and furry edges that I’ve never seen before. Click on the photo to see an enlargement and all the minute detail.
Copper Beech leaf against the window
2 The sun was shining and the wind had dropped a little so I went for a walk to collect photos of all the wildflowers in the hedges. In a sheltered spot I saw these Green-Veined White butterflies mating. Clicking on this one will show you the furriness of these beautiful little butterflies.
Green-Veined White butterflies mating
3 It was difficult taking photos of flowers blowing in the wind but somehow this whirlwind photo worked out, much to my delight.
Pink Valerian in the wind
