sylvia's meadow II

spiders, meadow brown butterfly with wings open, and the confusingly named fairy flax best know for its extreme purgative powers in an infusion of wine

sylvia's meadow

There are 1000's of orchids in this ancient unspoilt grassland meadow in St Annes Chapel. It was open on Sunday, as it is at weekends through June (check through the link to the wildlife trust) and five species were out , the lesser and greater butterfly orchids, southern marsh orchids, heath spotted and common spotted orchids, and seemingly a lot of hybrids.

mutts

Waiting
for the rough run running,
on banks
by which the river runs.
A soft stream
hardly heard,
this dream
flows absurd
in which I, waiting,
Watch.

by Spot

blue insect movies

two of the fittest young demoiselles caught in delicto flagrante fitting together although God knows what is actually fitting where (on reflection only He probably does). Boss says they probably are work mates.

figwort

this is probably marsh figwort, a very big luscious and foreign looking plant with huge winged stems, the small flowers have complicated innards including a staminode (an infertile stamen). Why would one have an infertile stamen?

elvers and others

an elver from the Inny, recently died. Its mouth is designed for sucking the life juices out of things, a bit like some of the humans Dad has to put up with. Dogs are more straightforward I think, once we are your friend we are your friend. It is strange how humans have come to dominate the planet, the one consolation is that their hegemony will not last forever. For example, why put a tax on rubbish in the full and certain knowledge that all that will happen is that it will be dumped in our living space. Presumably at some point there will be no space left between the rising sea and the rubbish dumps.