Fresh blooms on my beautiful rose, The Lark Ascending.
This is a video, but it's not appearing on my video clips. We had two nests of young House Martins launch themselves into the ether today. They were so joyous in the air, and it was a delight to watch them.
At one point they came back to their nest but "perched" somehow hanging onto the wall below it.
This was a video too, of the flying ants leaving their nests and about to take off on their wedding flight. Not so good as a still!
This morning I went blackberry picking, as it was wonderfully cool. Picking a bit with rain but as I picked beside the reservoir at the Elan valley, it came on to rain. I soon had sopping wet feet as it had clearly rained in the night too, and I was glad to get home and peel off my wet socks in exchange for dry ones.
Above the car park . . .
The fruit of my labours. I will wash these and freeze them on a tray and they are a free, organic and healthy addition to my winter food stash. 2 1/2 lbs fruit.
Now I am off to put anti-itch cream on the nasty insect HORSE FLY bites I got in the garden yesterday - my gardener was here to mow the lawn, which was shaggy on the cooler side of the house and standing hay elsewhere . . .
An improvement . . .
