Thursday, September 20, 2018

Highlands flowers and other fragments

We whilst Fiona and I are in a completely different setting, aka cottage in the Scottish Highlands, walks and the appreciation the simple beauty on offer continue to be a big part of our daily lives.

This Wednesday post shares some of that simple beauty - first flowers - with and without bumble bee.

©2018 Barry Smith - Clover blossom in early light
©2018 Barry Smith - Like a fire stick
©2018 Barry Smith - Bog cotton in the breeze
©2018 Barry Smith - Love the contrast of stems and fruit 
©2018 Barry Smith - The purple flowers that produce the red berries
©2018 Barry Smith - Colour on rocks with native bees?
©2018 Barry Smith - Spent thistles but still gorgeous
©2018 Barry Smith - Micro thistles
©2018 Barry Smith - Another angle of the micro thistles
©2018 Barry Smith - Blossom, bumble bee and fly
Gorgeous scraggy highland cattle by the roadside.

©2018 Barry Smith - Highlander
©2018 Barry Smith - Calf gets a gentle clean
And of course there is so much more including strange sedge like plants, micro insect eating plants and fungi beside a path.


©2018 Barry Smith - Lots of little critters trapped in these micro plants - each blossom is less than 1cm across

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4 comments:

  1. Mo CrowSeptember 20, 2018 at 6:57 AM

    such wonderful flower photos & the highland beast is a classic but it's that last photo that really has me wondering, that's a fungus?

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  2. PennySeptember 20, 2018 at 1:38 PM

    How lovely to explore new plants.

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  3. Liz ASeptember 20, 2018 at 10:25 PM

    So much to see in each and every one of these pictures ... I especially like how the dried thistle echoes the windblown coats of the cow and her calf ... and always I swoon for moon mushrooms

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  4. boromaxSeptember 21, 2018 at 7:10 AM

    Fan.Tas.Tic.

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