Attingham

[cmcmck]

An elm skeleton in the landscape:



That's the Wrekin in the distant Summer haze:



And wood dapple in the park grounds:





A stand of native foxgloves:



This gate and fence caught my attention:



A waterway runs through the grounds:



Kine!



More kine. These are the wonderfully old fashioned English dairy shorthorn which you rarely see these days:



The guy in the middle there is a rather splendid  Herefordshire bull. They kept still for us as they were enjoying the shade under a stand of trees:



Another nice stand of trees, this time with no kine:



Another elm skeleton:






 

Comments

[turlough]

Dead elms make me feel so sad! The last few elms in my little town all died a couple of years ago :-/

Wonderful photos! Everything's looking so lush and green and summery. What a lovely profusion of foxgloves! And such a handsome, placid bull!

[cmcmck]

The loss of elms broke my heart in my undergrad days.

Foxgloves follow on from the bluebells and the next up will be rosebay willowherb.

I think that big guy was feeling too hot to do the big butch bull act! :o)