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After a rather dull start to the day the weather improved and by mid morning was warm and sunny. Tomorrow is Motorbike day, so today was walkies....
A feeling of High Summer, warm and very green with only the sound of insects. I was always told the Birds were too exhausted from rearing young some weeks earlier, to sing much in Summer. That may well be the case I think, except for the Dawn Chorus of course..
Water Lillies are still blooming in some parts of the lakes.
The turning of the season has it's Hall marks though, the 'Lords and Ladies' (Arum Maculatum) show in the shadey woods like little orange beacons.
And the Blackberries in the sunnier spots are starting to turn colour.
This particular patch of Blackberries made me think how important it is to have even a little knowledge of nature. Growing in amongst the Blackberries was (Atropa bella-donna ) or Deadly Nightshade...
It would be good to be able to recognise the fact if out Blackberrying with kids, as to tell them " Only eat the Berries that are black" would not be good advice, because soon the shiney black harmful berries of the Nightshade will appear amongst the Blackberries.
I always think of Nicolas Culpeper the Herbalist of the mid 1600's when I see Bella-donna. He wrote..
"The Nightshade bears a very bad character as being of a poisonous nature"
"A very bad character "...... That was probably quite strong language in the time of Good queen Bess..
The margins of the lake are tinged with colour by patches of Purple Loosetrife which grows well in the damp soul.
And I'm told, but never tried it, that the roots of the Great Reed Mace are full of Carbohydrates...
The Foresters make good use of their chain saw skills and any trees which fall in convenient places...A nice resting place on a warm sunny day..
Some of the stone work from the 1700 and 1800's is still quite obvious and put to good use, like the rock Grotto shelter,
But I often find on my wanderings deep in the woods, stone walls and structures from Medieval times and possibly the boundary markings that were placed by the first Norman land owners.
This almost indistinguishable wall, is as far as I can tell, in the correct position as a boundary wall on a map of the 1200's
If it is a Norman wall it failed to keep a Saxon out today.....
And home past the sunlit Reed Beds...
A feeling of High Summer, warm and very green with only the sound of insects. I was always told the Birds were too exhausted from rearing young some weeks earlier, to sing much in Summer. That may well be the case I think, except for the Dawn Chorus of course..
Water Lillies are still blooming in some parts of the lakes.
The turning of the season has it's Hall marks though, the 'Lords and Ladies' (Arum Maculatum) show in the shadey woods like little orange beacons.
And the Blackberries in the sunnier spots are starting to turn colour.
This particular patch of Blackberries made me think how important it is to have even a little knowledge of nature. Growing in amongst the Blackberries was (Atropa bella-donna ) or Deadly Nightshade...
It would be good to be able to recognise the fact if out Blackberrying with kids, as to tell them " Only eat the Berries that are black" would not be good advice, because soon the shiney black harmful berries of the Nightshade will appear amongst the Blackberries.
I always think of Nicolas Culpeper the Herbalist of the mid 1600's when I see Bella-donna. He wrote..
"The Nightshade bears a very bad character as being of a poisonous nature"
"A very bad character "...... That was probably quite strong language in the time of Good queen Bess..
The margins of the lake are tinged with colour by patches of Purple Loosetrife which grows well in the damp soul.
And I'm told, but never tried it, that the roots of the Great Reed Mace are full of Carbohydrates...
The Foresters make good use of their chain saw skills and any trees which fall in convenient places...A nice resting place on a warm sunny day..
Some of the stone work from the 1700 and 1800's is still quite obvious and put to good use, like the rock Grotto shelter,
But I often find on my wanderings deep in the woods, stone walls and structures from Medieval times and possibly the boundary markings that were placed by the first Norman land owners.
This almost indistinguishable wall, is as far as I can tell, in the correct position as a boundary wall on a map of the 1200's
If it is a Norman wall it failed to keep a Saxon out today.....
And home past the sunlit Reed Beds...
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