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This beautiful rare flower is the wild Pyramidal Orchid { Anacramptis pyramidalis } and it grows on dry grassland, chalk downs and stabilised sand dunes.I was lucky to spot it yesterday growing on the side of the road as it was the profusion of yellowish foamy flower around it, that attracted my view. They are called Ladies Bedstraw { Galium verum } and they smells like new mown hay. It was once used for stuffing mattress`s and the term ladies is said to refer to Queen Elizabeth 1st who it is said had her mattress`s stuffed with it. By all accounts its the closest she actually got to an actual stuffing though Ive heard rumours!!!!! Lol
So an ordinary simple little no frills pic with a nice little tale.
The best ones really!
Right, anybody fancy a roll in the grass? For Heavens sake will ya mind the Orchid!!!!
Do hope you will favour my photo.
So lets sing! All together now;
" I like to rise when the sun she rises early in the mornin........
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Update;
Im amazed how popular this simple photo is. I didnt take any trouble with it in the least. I was passing by on the opposite side of the road and I just went over and took 3 pics. I removed a few blades of strawy grass first that were in the way. I was going to use a macro lens but I didnt bother.
Im passing by there again this evening so Ill have a look. I doubt if any more will come up as the do grow singly and are extremely fussy about soil conditions.I think its the simplicity of it that makes it and of course the grass and the foil of yellow flowers definitely add to it.
I do want to thank all of you for all your faves and wonderful words which inspire me greatly!
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I went out to Donabate on Tuesday 4th July to look for some more Orchids. I must have walked 10 miles but I was well rewarded as I found one area where there were about 20 in all and they were in varying shades of purple. Perhaps the colour has to do with soil ph. I will put up a collage of them and I think Ill print a few as well. If anyone wants a copy, let me know.
Catch you all soon, P@t.
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Close up of a wild boar, these tusks are pretty impressive...found this guy hanging around near a group of females with their piglets. Usually they are by themselves except for mating. Bavaria, Germany
As the Autumn leaves they fall
Every moment, i hear the call
Of love so pure and so sweet
That in my dreams, i always meet
That i see in the beautiful trees
Blowing on Autumn breeze
As i walk, through leaves that fall
Waiting to hear the gentle call
Of tender love, which does not part
From my dreams and my heart
This is a common wildflower found in the Sandhills. It can pop up in lawns, along highways, in the most well maintained flower beds, and of course, in woods and meadows, untended by humans, These were seen along a path through the woods on one of my daily ritual walks.
The Eel and its tributaries form the third largest watershed entirely in California, draining a rugged area of 3,684 square miles (9,540 km). Since the early 20th century, the Eel River has been dammed in its headwaters to provide water to parts of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties. Despite these dams, the Eel was granted federal Wild and Scenic River status in 1981, formally making it off limits to new dams. While it may not look particularly wild in this photo, the water flow would be significantly higher in January and February, due to the impact of storms coming in from the Pacific Ocean.
We stopped here for lunch stop en route from Little River to Shelter Cove, the third day of our May road trip.
Happy weekend ahead! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all.
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Picture is still from march ;) I had been taking a lot of new pictures the last days, now I just need to find time to edit them....
With so many horses about that morning, the fun challenge was to capture them in a good pose with the Sierra Mountains in the background. I was able to pull it off a few times with individuals, but never did get a group shot that I liked. This bay must have been assigned guard duty because it rarely took its eyes off me. Mono Lake, California, USA, December 2024
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Wild garlic flowers seen near the small river in the forest. There were a lot of them and their characteristic smell was felt all around :)
Wild garlic or bear's garlic (Allium ursinum) is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae. It is a wild relative of onion, native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist woodland. It flowers in the British Isles from April to June, starting before deciduous trees leaf in the spring. The leaves of A. ursinum are edible; they can be used as salad, herb, boiled as a vegetable, in soup, or as an ingredient for a sauce that may be a substitute for pesto in lieu of basil. The stems are preserved by salting and eaten as a salad in Russia. A variety of Cornish Yarg cheese has a rind coated in wild garlic leaves. The bulbs and flowers are also edible. It is used for preparing herbed cheese, a Van speciality in Turkey.
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Kwiaty czosnku niedźwiedziego rosnące przy rzeczce w lesie. Było tam ich bardzo dużo i charakterystyczny czosnkowy zapach czuć było już z daleka :)
Czosnek niedźwiedzi (Allium ursinum) – gatunek rośliny z podrodziny czosnkowych z rodziny amarylkowatych. Rośnie dziko w runie wilgotnych lasów liściastych, często w postaci rozległych łanów. Występuje na terenie Europy, na wschodzie po Ural i Kaukaz, w Europie jest też uprawiany. W Polsce częsty na południu, rzadszy na północy – na stanowiskach naturalnych objęty jest ochroną częściową. Gatunek wykorzystywany jest od dawna jako roślina jadalna, lecznicza i ozdobna. Ma właściwości lecznicze podobne do czosnku pospolitego, a przy tym wyróżnia się atrakcyjnym ulistnieniem i kwiatami. Jadalne są wszystkie części rośliny. Liście mogą być spożywane surowe lub po ugotowaniu, także jako pesto. Dodawane są do zup, gnocchi, risotto, ravioli, serów żółtych i twarogów, także używanych jako smarowidło do pieczywa. Liście i kwiaty dodawane są do sałatek i kanapek, a cebula czosnku niedźwiedziego stosowana może być analogicznie jak ząbki czosnku pospolitego.