Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[Boru]

Summer solstice greetings from cairn v and t, Loughcrew, Co Meath.

 

[Ground Elder]

I visited my mum last weekend. She still lives in the house we moved to in 1970, when this field was a muddy recently capped rubbish dump. They tried to turn it into sports pitches, building changing rooms which, to us kids great excitement, filled with methane from the rotting rubbish below and were quickly demolished. Now the saplings of my childhood are fully grown trees and the field is being managed for the wildlife, with new areas being planted. It's great to see somewhere that's actually better than it used to be

 

[chainsawjob]

water lily, cow parsley/similar, poppy, wisteria tunnel, field bindweed, lavender

 

[chainsawjob]

 

[chainsawjob]

yachties, sea lavender, oops (the mud was surprisingly black & foul-smelling), looking towards Buckler's Hard

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Some ducks recently.

 

[Voley]

Windy but still hot out there today. Lovely walking weather. We did just under 9½ miles. Curry earned.

 

[chainsawjob]

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Windy but still hot out there today. Lovely walking weather. We did just under 9½ miles. Curry earned.

Can't wait to be back in Cornwall again, we're planning a trip August Bank Holiday. It's been too long, pre-Covid since we were at Noongallas.

 

[chainsawjob]

Yesterday



small blue?, stream, Inclosure gate, bog pimpernel (one of my favourite wild flowers), roe, large skipper?, holly blue?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[chainsawjob]

Been out litter picking locally.



large white, stream crossing, found an antler, recyclables, non-recyclables

Spoiler: dead squirrel, for those of a sensitive disposition - I find dead things interesting

 

[Orang Utan]

We have a new messiah!

 

[brogdale]

Barley already harvested and away in deepest, darkest LB of Bromley, today...then onto Keston, the source of the Ravensbourne & 'spoons at B South.

 

[Elpenor]

Used to walk the dog at Keston Ponds every Sunday

 

[brogdale]

Used to walk the dog at Keston Ponds every Sunday

Lived in S.London for 40 years and never been there before today!

Can't tell just how good that pint was after all that walking.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Couldn't sleep so I went for a walk. I met this little cutie.

 

[Chilli.s]

 

[SpookyFrank]

A snake that I nearly squished with my bike in my way home from work. I shooed him safely back into the grass.

 

[chainsawjob]

Found a pond I didn't know was there.

 

[Elpenor]

 

[brogdale]

Went wandering down on the Marsh looking for the ancestors...and ended up at bracing Camber...

 

[Boru]

Overcast summer day in Dublin.

 

[chainsawjob]

harebells, hollow tree, puffballs, no water birds, peacock, mulberries

 

[Chilli.s]

 

[chainsawjob]

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Love this!

 

[Voley]

Where's that Chilli.s ? Looks great.

 

[Chilli.s]

Where's that Chilli.s ? Looks great.

Northumberland, Druridge bay. It was an industrial wasteland untill about 30 years ago. Now the whole coast reminds me of Cornwall in the 70s, as its not too busy and you can park for free. I will admit that its a bit colder though.

 

[gentlegreen]

Since I may not fancy cycling in a thunderstorm later, I walked a mile and a half around the park.
I was especially struck by how spotlessly clean the lime trees were.
Last year they were plastered in nail galls and aphids with black mould everywhere and with a ladybird larva sitting on many of the leaves...
I'm guessing the cold winter did for them all ...

 

[chainsawjob]

 

[SpookyFrank]