I’ve been doing my best but the heat finally got to my brain and I couldn’t muster up blogging energies the last few days, so it’s a multi-day post again today.
We went for a lovely walk at Prees Heath Common today and I ticked off one of my bingo squares by hugging three different types of tree as we wandered round. We also spotted a couple of early Silver-Studded Blues and a grasshopper (or five) whilst we were there.
‘Tree hugging is the easiest yoga art to connect you with nature.’
Amit Ray
Today I decided to finally find out what this plant is that I’ve ‘grown’ in the garden, as I didn’t recognise it once it flowered, which I thought I might do. It is Alfalfa, and I think it self-seeded from the bird food.
I used the iNaturalist’s Seek app to identify it.
I also quite enjoyed watching the lightning and listening to the thunder when a storm rolled over in the afternoon. And I could practically hear the plants outside breathing a sigh of relief when it rained!
‘When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.’
Monty Don
Today has been very muggy and I have been tired and grumpy and I have not really wanted to do anything at all, so I decided to spend a quiet twenty minutes watching the BBC Springwatch Multicam feed.
Cuckoos look ridiculous when their host parent is less than half the size of ‘their’ chick, and baby pigeons don’t look real.
Also baby owls are far too fluffy for their own good – so cute!
‘A forest bird never wants a cage.’
Henrik Ibsen
What random acts of wildness have you done over the last few days?
Carole Finds Her Wings 