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new growth, June 2020

My Walk this Week 212 – Back Through the Park Again

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My walk this week revisits a walk taken in our local park in June two years ago. There have been some changes to the park in that time, but I was focusing on the natural growth then, just as I do now.

playground

The last two photos in the sequence below were in fact taken in April and then June this year and show the stump of a tree in the middle of the footpath through the woods. The stump of the cut tree clearly refused to die and the photo from June demonstrates its determination to live and thrive again.

The recording I made two years ago, of a song thrush in the woods has not lost any of its beauty for me, so although I do not have a soundscape from June this year, I have enjoyed listening to this again and I hope you will too.

Song Thrush in the Woods

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footpath
footpath
park exit
park exit
Lavender
Lavender
Lavender
Lavender
wildflowers against the sun
wildflowers against the sun
open park
open park
oak wood
oak wood
clover
clover
grass seed
grass seed
empty pond
empty pond
Song thrush
Song thrush
undergrowth
bracken undergrowth
where the bluebells used to be
where the bluebells used to be
squirrel on oak tree
squirrel on oak tree
spot the squirrel
spot the squirrel
yellow flag
yellow flag
Wildflowers in the park
Wildflowers in the park
wildflower remnant
wildflower remnant
Swings together
Swings together
playground
playground through the trees
new growth, April 2020
new growth, April 2020
new growth, June 2020
new growth, June 2020
garden nook

My Walk this Week 203 – Spring Garden

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My walk this week returns to our garden where Spring is in full flow with the birds singing and the colours spreading.

garden pots

But there is a rare anomaly for me in this post! The images and soundscape are from different weeks with the audio being recorded one week earlier than the photos. This is very unusual for me but there is a reason for it. The recording was made while I was digging the first small vegetable patch and as I did so in the breezy sunshine, a blackbird sang his heart out in the trees behind me and it was such a joy to be doing this work to his and other birds accompaniment.Continue reading→

blossom

My Walk this Week 157 – High Tide Deposits and Spring Growth

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My walk this week follows high spring tides on my local marshes and looks at the deposits they left as well as the new wildflower and marsh grass growth coming through with Spring.

Bluebells en route

Bluebells en route

Spring tides occur twice a month every month, as do neap tides, not just in the Spring. The term “spring tide” is given to those tides that have the greatest difference in height between high and low tide, but the highest tidesContinue reading→

new bracken

Rhododendrons Valley

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Mauve and violet Rhododendrons used to almost fill one of our local valleys and although they were cut back significantly some years ago, my walk this week proves they are still there, and in much greater abundance than is shown in my photographs.

Rhododendron valley

The whole side of the valley used to be a mass of bright purple at this time of year and was a phenomenon to behold. I know rhododendrons are not native to Wales or the UK but, unlike Japanese Knotweed or Himalayan Balsam, I don’t generally have any issue with them, thoughContinue reading→