Still death or still life?
fragments of summer waiting
for glory once more
Tag: Nature
The world beneath my feet
Is what Cheri Lucas Rowland wants to see photos of for her challenge this week. Here are my choices.
It doesn’t look very complicated does it? But in fact it’s one of the ways out of a maize maze at Darts farm, where I took my sunflower photo this week, go in and you could be gone a while!
Theworld beneath Dido and Daisy’s feet will soon be wet!
I wonder whose toes walked before me on the world beneath my feet.
The world beneath my feet isn’t!
Roly-poly on the world beneath my feet!
What’s beneath yours? Share with us here.
I Wish I was Ten Again
That’s what I felt like at Holly Hill Country Park last week. It’s on the edge of Fareham in Hampshire and I went with my daughter and family so that Scarlett could feed the ducks. Very nice ducks they were too, Buff ducks!
There were pretty bridges, wooden steps and muddy banks. A beautiful bench that would have fitted Jude’s July theme and several woodland art pieces. The list of flora and fauna is really impressive, the planting is subtle and naturalistic. With trees as varied as Dawn Redwood, Cork Oak, Gleditsia, Hornbeam and Japanese Cherry, it’s a real arboretum. A variety of bats, stoats, voles and hare are among twenty eight mammals listed.
Here are some photos, apart from ducks, the only wildlife are the granddaughters!
Amazingly this lovely place is free to visit. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, see some more of Jo’s Monday Walks here.
Flora, Berries and Seeds on a Nature Walk
A few days ago Meg posted a memoir of some the amazing walks she has taken so far in her lifetime. She talks of walking on Broken Hill, even the name evokes wonder, casuarinas looking south to Gulaga and a father emu with his nine babies. When she wrote of ‘heathland flowering up to our neck’, I compared the abundance of flora and fauna with here in England.
Then yesterday I went for a short dog walk beside the river and canal, and observing my surroundings I became aware of just how much there was to see. 
Lots of seed heads, Queen Anne’s Lace I believe.
More seeds and grasses.
Flowers galore!
and some early blackberries.
This wasn’t a planned photo walk so I only had my silly i phone, but these were all taken in less than a mile, without searching very hard. Sometimes the unexpected brings the most pleasure.
I’ve decided to call this a nature walk and link to Jo’s Monday Walk. The Exeter canal runs parallel to the river Exe for around six miles. The canal is great for walking, or cycling, as long as unlike me, you can stay upright on a bike, and there are several watering holes along the way. I hope it fits Jo!
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
dancing white daisies
pretty petals curling down
June ballerinas
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Drifting in the sun
a meadow buttercup field
by a river bend
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Beauty rarely seen
as precious as amethyst
bathed in meadow light
Wordless Wednesday
Lovely Lichens
I don’t know anything about lichen, but Jude asked me about the ones in my area recently, so when I saw these yesterday I thought of her.
They may all be the same type, but they are pretty aren’t they? I didn’t edit the colours, some were very bright.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
A lovers spring walk
hand in hand through greenery
fresh as their romance
Lucid Gypsy 