turlough: view over meadow filled with flowers ((summer) seasonal)
[personal profile] turlough2024-06-21 07:51 pm

Glad Midsommar!

Midsummer's Eve is the second most celebrated holiday here in Sweden and like Christmas a lot of the celebration centres around food and drink, but for Midsummer flowers are also a large part. Particularly wild flowers. May and June are the big months for wild flowers here and all the photos I posted below are just some of all the wild flowers I saw on my walk this morning.

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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
pale pink umbellate flowers

more flowers... )
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)

In which there are fungi, flowers, and fish

These are September seasonal photos. Click through to flickr for biggerness. Enjoy!

Fungi, Sessile Earthstars, Geastrum fimbriatum: they begin as spheres then their outer layer peels itself back in segments and curls underneath the fruiting body to lift it away from the ground.

Fungi, Sessile Earthstar, Geastrum fimbriatum 2, Malvern Hills, Worcestershire 09-12

Four more small images. )