The proper name for this path is the Millennial Trail, but I generally refer to it as the Drunken Forest because of all the tipsy trees growing at odd angles. They’re not all leaning in the same direction and some of them lean over so far they seem to be defying gravity. They all seem healthy and happy, though. It’s a very curious sort of place.
Lean to my right
Lean to my left
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Just a few happy, wild daisies to brighten your day.
Happy daisies
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A few photos of the stuff that grows wild around here. There’s lots, so I put most of them below the fold.
Queen Ann’s Lace and a hint of Dame’s Rocket marking the trail
It’s a hot day here so Jack and I went for a slow walk around the shaded pond at the park. We haven’t been here for a while because I’ve been avoiding the swans. They were incubating 3 eggs on the pond’s little island, but the last few times I was here both adults were off the nest and swimming together with no babies in sight. I was feeling sad that none of the babies made it, but I was wrong! There is one cygnet and I found him today with his proud and protective mama.
Proud mama and her cygnet
Feeding together
We also checked on the goslings who are now big, goofy teenagers. The area where they nest also has some younger babies, including one who looked freshly hatched.
Babies of all ages, even a newborn (bottom right)
The goslings are teenagers
Teenagers getting ready to shed their fluff
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From Lofty: Some pictures from the old farm I stayed at a few weeks ago. This log seems have been parked a hundred years ago and never molested by vagrant children. Click for full size!
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I wish I could read insect hieroglyphics. Maybe this message says beware of falling trees.
Basil has a nap on one of my easels. Click for full size.
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From Giliell, click for full size! Love that last photo!
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At this time of year there are so many beautiful flowers that it’s easy to forget some of the other pretty things in the wild. So today Jack and I are sharing a few small bubbles of bright orange fungus that we found poking their heads up. The focus is soft, but somehow it suits. I think it’s a waxy cap chanterelle, but I’m no expert on the fungus among us.
My strawberry patch looks awful. What little I planted this year has mostly dried due to way too warm and dry May. However I still have enough big strawberries – those damn plants infested the side of the vegetable patch and grow among grass and potatoes like mad. Annoying, truly, on oh so many levels.
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