My walk this week is a warm Springtime walk to the lower slopes of Cefn Drum (pronounced Kevn Drim). I didn’t have time to go further but it was still a most enjoyable and much needed relaxing and therapeutic hour.
The weather is cooler now (my walk was taken two weeks ago) but the road verges are still looking as beautiful as ever. I have a suspicion that the County Council has delayed much of the cutting and trimming they do each year – either that or the climate over the past year has, for all its ups and downs, produced a bumper crop of wildflowers . . .
. . . or perhaps nature is just taking full advantage of not so many humans being around as a result of the Covid-19 lock down!
The birds were singing, the insects buzzing and true to their name, the mayflies were flying above the river in unbelievable numbers. You’ll have to trust me on that one because, unfortunately, I didn’t get a photograph.
Cefn Drum Soundscape
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![country lane country lane](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-1.jpg?w=510&h=340&ssl=1)
![wildflowers 1 wildflowers 1](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-19.jpg?w=202&h=134&ssl=1)
![wildflowers 2 wildflowers 2](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-2.jpg?w=202&h=202&crop=1&ssl=1)
![unfurling fern unfurling fern](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-3.jpg?w=210&h=210&crop=1&ssl=1)
![bluebells bluebells](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-4.jpg?w=210&h=140&ssl=1)
![low river low river](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-5.jpg?w=236&h=354&ssl=1)
![clover clover](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-6.jpg?w=262&h=175&ssl=1)
![bee on clover bee on clover](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-7.jpg?w=262&h=175&ssl=1)
![mossy green verge mossy green verge](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-8.jpg?w=409&h=614&ssl=1)
![moss peristomes moss peristomes](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-9.jpg?w=303&h=202&ssl=1)
![country lane 2 country lane 2](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-10.jpg?w=303&h=202&ssl=1)
![hill track hill track](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-11.jpg?w=303&h=202&ssl=1)
![estuary vista estuary vista](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-12.jpg?w=375&h=251&ssl=1)
![Whin Whin](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-20.jpg?w=375&h=250&ssl=1)
![footpath footpath](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-13.jpg?w=337&h=505&ssl=1)
![track and gate track and gate](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-14.jpg?w=477&h=318&ssl=1)
![twisting lane twisting lane](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-15.jpg?w=235&h=157&ssl=1)
![bluebells in tree shade bluebells in tree shade](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-16.jpg?w=235&h=157&ssl=1)
![old tin shed old tin shed](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-17.jpg?w=236&h=157&ssl=1)
![weir weir](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-18.jpg?w=236&h=157&ssl=1)
![dappled sunlight on water dappled sunlight](https://i0.wp.com/stillwalks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cefn-Drum-21.jpg?w=236&h=157&ssl=1)