An Afternoon Walk

This is actually a walk from mid April where I took my camera along meaning to post it. Somehow it got forgotten amongst my other photos. So off we go.

It's surprising how different things look from this now, a month later. The grass is much longer and greener, the trees are now in leaf and the lambs below are much bigger.

This is a crab apple tree which we gave my brother in law and his wife a few years ago. It has fantastic blossom and the fruit is a good source of food for birds in the autumn. You can see that it is well guarded to prevent the deer eating it.

There are also two bee hives on the edge of this field. They are usually tended to by one of the cousins but she has recently had a baby so has found a beekeeper to deal with them this year.

This walk takes us just through the edge of the quarry where you can see the deep red soil.

Then across the road into a small woodland area much of which was surface quarried in the past so is quite undulating.

The path skirts along the side of the woods.

It then drops into the top of the woodland which at the time was a sea of wild garlic.

I have probably mentioned before that the broad leafed garlic tends to dominate over the bluebells however the further you go in the bluebells become more evident.

They become a carpet of blue with their subtle perfume in contrast to the much heavier harsh garlic smell.

 

There has to be at least one Poppy picture.