enchanter

enchanter's nightshade is out, with its minute delicate white flowers. Latin name is ciraea lutetiana, for Circe the enchantress.

thank you

I cannot tell you how much I hate the scum who do this, and the people who pass the laws that encourage it by taxing those who dispose of waste legally.

hemp agrimony and honeysuckle

the rain has made for a luxuriant undergrowth this year. The red flower is hemp (for its supposed similarity to hemp proper) agrimony, a flower I always associate with the end of summer not the middle, and of course the yellow flower is fragrant wild native honeysuckle .

one flap in a butterfly's mind

this year's crop of black berries is beginning to form. The drab butterfly is a meadow brown, said to fly 'lazily' although can anyone really know the inside of a butterfly's mind? It might be trying very hard and in any case more than one flap of its wings could well cause mayhem (like the Lifton tornado which I saw but did not photograph, no camera!!).

excitement at Whiteford

as always tonight's concert at Whiteford ended with a beautiful series of bangs, and Google report that they exceeded their bandwidth, is this a reference to the number of fat people on the stage?

holidays by the seaside

One sunny day! The pond seems much bigger. Downderry beach on a beautiful day.