Thursday 20 March

Good morning for mooching about the old cottage area in Drybones.

 Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis

 Stile Dry Bones

 Flowering Currant - Ripes sanguineum

 Forsythia suspensa x viridissima = F. xintermedia

 Gooseberry - Ribes uva-crispa

 Great Wood-rush - Luzula sylvatica

 Lesser Celandine  - Ficaria verna

 Londonpride - Saxifraga umbrosa x spathularis = S. x urbium

 Lords & Ladies - Arum maculatum

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa

Take Care

Wednesday 2 May

Dry Morning

The above 3 photos are Birch Shieldbug - Elasmostethus interstinctus found on Gooseberry

Common Nettle - Urtica dioica

Gooseberry - Ribes uva-crispa

Greater Stitchwort - Stellaria holostea

Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

Lily of the Valley - Convallaria majalis

Wood Melick - Melica uniflora

Wood Melick - Melica uniflora

Wood Melick - Melica uniflora

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Take care

Friday 27 April

Damp Morning

 Gooseberry - Ribes uva-crispa

 Japanese Quince - Chaenomeles japonica

 Japanese Quince - Chaenomeles japonica

 Tern & Gull 

The tern has been on the raft a few days - it must be waiting for a mate.

Take Care

Sunday 22 April part three

Fruit,Trees, Bees & Sticks

 Apple - Malus sp.

 Apple - Malus sp.

 Gooseberry - Ribes uva-crispa

 Pear Tree in garden

 Pear Flowers

 Solitary Bee - Andrena sp.

 A Stick Handle I am making - it is cow horn the spacer is buffalo horn 

The piece of wood which is lime will be cut and shaped for the top

Take Care

Thursday 21 May

What started out a wet dismal morning turned into a wonderful day, we immediately started looking for plants.

We began in Clitheroe Castle's grounds, then around the streets and back alleys. Then we had our lunch at Brungerley Park near the bridge, we did part of the sculpture trail and then onto Cross Hill quarry.

Bugle
Common Milkwort
Twayblade
Crosswort

This is Giant Knotweed x Japanese Knotweed - sometimes called Connolly's knotweed.

Feverfew

French Sorrel

Gooseberry growing at the side of the river.

Hoary Plantain

Hybrid Aven - cross between Water Aven & Wood Aven (Herb Bennet)

Pendulous Sedge growing in a back street.

Springbeauty

Thyme-leaved Sandwort

Water Aven

Wild Strawberry

Bulbous Buttercup

A really good day, considering the rain was coming down like stair rods on the way up. Never did another drop after I got there.