Another week, another walk
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common_natureWe went for a walk into the Ercall Forest which is pretty much on our doorstep.
Things are greening up. A lot of the green here is wild garlic which you smell way before you see it!
A temporary pool. We've had so much rain this Winter!
While this one's permanent:
Wild garlic close up. When it flowers, this'll be a carpet of white blossoms:
Birch heading for mulchdome:
Such a huge crop of wild garlic! Usually when this does well, so do the bluebells which come next in succession, so watch this space!
And further in we went:
Found art!
And a wood dragon!
Lumpy stumpy!
And another wood creature:
This forest often reminds me of Mirkwood and here's why:
Ivy doing its thing!
This one will go in next Winter's storms, I suspect:
Sheeps! We've not seen a lamb with any flock this year. I think the farmers haven't put the rams in because times are hard.
More found art:
The streams are still full after the wet Winter:
Daffs! Wild ones!
This is lesser celandine which we see a lot of locally:
On the way home I noticed a miniature forest on top of a decorative ball on someone's wall!
And that was our walk. :o)
Things are greening up. A lot of the green here is wild garlic which you smell way before you see it!
A temporary pool. We've had so much rain this Winter!
While this one's permanent:
Wild garlic close up. When it flowers, this'll be a carpet of white blossoms:
Birch heading for mulchdome:
Such a huge crop of wild garlic! Usually when this does well, so do the bluebells which come next in succession, so watch this space!
And further in we went:
Found art!
And a wood dragon!
Lumpy stumpy!
And another wood creature:
This forest often reminds me of Mirkwood and here's why:
Ivy doing its thing!
This one will go in next Winter's storms, I suspect:
Sheeps! We've not seen a lamb with any flock this year. I think the farmers haven't put the rams in because times are hard.
More found art:
The streams are still full after the wet Winter:
Daffs! Wild ones!
This is lesser celandine which we see a lot of locally:
On the way home I noticed a miniature forest on top of a decorative ball on someone's wall!
And that was our walk. :o)
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Date: 2021-03-18 07:49 pm (UTC)I also use it to make mushroom and wild garlic pasties.
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Date: 2021-03-18 09:22 pm (UTC)My brain misread the forest name as the Ethical forest, which left me wildly confused for that split second.
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Date: 2021-03-19 03:53 am (UTC)Daffodils. I love the older yellow daffodil. Today most bulbs that are sold are "King Alfred" which is a really big bloom. The one you picture and the one I think I got bulbs from this year are of an older daffodil with somewhat smaller and narrower blooms. I like both.
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Date: 2021-03-19 10:23 am (UTC)Ercall- pronounced 'arkle'.
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Date: 2021-03-19 10:25 am (UTC)The wild daffs are smaller and neater to my eye.