I'm having trouble with my internet this morning, our server, Beeline, is disappearing every minute or so and I am left with three (secured) BT servers to use, which we don't pay for. Still waiting for the warm weather to arrive as well! So a few photos.....
A sparse flowering currant but I am sure it will grow into a big bush. The smell (blackcurrant cat's pee) always reminds me of childhood! behind the currant is the evergreen ceanothus and further along the wall is a mock orange shrub. I need a gardener to dig out a bed along this warm south facing wall.
The churchyard in full daffodil flower, I think Farndale is promenading its wild daffodils as well.
Primroses make an appearance, notice the dreaded murky pink one that has appeared.
Along the road the butterbur flower has made its strange leafless appearance, it travels in a straight line in some places and the pungent smell of garlic and its multiplicity of leaves are to be found along the riverside edge.
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| 'A host of golden daffodils' I never plant daffodils because of Wordsworth..... |
The wild daffodil - Narcissus pseudonnarcissus apparently to Grigson, if you follow the name through the medieval Latin it goes back to the Greek asphodelus, name of that plant which grows across the meadows of the underworld and which belonged to Persephone - the Queen of Hell!
And a less frightening fact, the Pre-Raphaelite Gerard Manley Hopkins looking at wild daffodils in Lancashire wrote "the bright yellow corolla is seeded with very fine spangles, which gives it a glister and lie on a ribbing which makes it like cloth of gold"
Daffydowndilly is quite a popular local name down south....
Japanese Weaving....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVPOjhHjDM&feature=youtu.be
Japanese Weaving....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVPOjhHjDM&feature=youtu.be
I do enjoy the way you write, Thelma, and your pictures are lovely and interesting.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that, sometimes I wish my photos could be better...
DeleteFabulous shots, I love the Daffodils, cheers Thelma.
ReplyDeleteWell your collared doves beautifully photographed this morning made me sit up and notice. A few miles down the road we have, apparently, turtle doves, to be found in Cropton and Danby Forests.
DeleteA nice fun trip even though it is the cemetary.
ReplyDeleteLiving next to dead people you become quite fond of them;) One thing to note, there are wreaths, plants and flowers everywhere on the graves. More people come to acknowledge their families then attend the church......
DeleteI love these photographs of your village - it looks such a pretty place.
ReplyDeleteWhat you see round the focus of the church is the old village, it does spread out into more modern houses, but not many. Those old cottages, the first was a school, the other two shops at the turn of the twentieth century.
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