berries

these exotic red berries are the fruit of the flowering nutmeg (qv) escaped into the wild at Old Mill. 

water rat

chasing the water boatmen, making huge ripples in their universe, water like liquid mercury.

nine months later

...if you look at the November archive pictures you will see this lovely scene in a very different light. Kit Hill in far background, and Stoke church to the left.

wall brown

this elusive butterfly will never keep still for long. The sun has just come out after a longish period of cloud and it was trying to warm up. 

bouncing boy back

the pack watch in amazement as boy jumps over fence into waiting boots, and is rejected by Mother Earth on grounds that he is a teenager.

tortoiseshell

last of the summer wine at the Old Butterfly and Bush, Buddleia.