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Early Evening Walk

nariz

By nariz

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After us being so busy yesterday – Partner getting trees for firewood with neighbour’s sons and me having a heavy day at the sock knitting – we decided to go for an early evening stroll along a local lane. It had been a lovely sunny day and the sun was warm on our backs – when we could get into it. First thing we found was this fungus on a rotting log.


We strolled a little further along the lane and after finding the occasional Cowslip and Hellebore, found a whole bank of primroses.

Looking back at our sunny village and across to the still snow-capped Pena Sagra :


About turn on the track and back home along the upper track we came across these catkins:


and these daisies closing up for the night. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.


Hope you enjoyed one of my favourite strolls?

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How lovely.....I do love the spring,especially unexpected early days like yesterday

12 Mar, 2012

 

We've got the sunshine, but it's turned really nippy here, so not doing much in the walking line at the moment (also not been feeling too clever over the past week or so) but the forecast for rising temperatures is good - I REALLY liked that bit in your blog about "The sun was warm on our backs". That's the only thing that convinces me that you don't live in the next valley to us.......that, and the fact that it must be nearly 50 years since I saw a cowslip growing in the wild - beautiful!
p.s. How are the socks coming on?

12 Mar, 2012

 

GLad to see the snow has left you now and SPring is bursting through..lovely pics..thanks for the walk :)

12 Mar, 2012

 

Lovely stroll Nariz . . . thanks . . making me even more excited about our visit to your corner of the world in May. I'm sure there will still be masses of wild flowers, but will there still be beautiful snow-capped mountains?!

12 Mar, 2012

 

Possibly, Sheila! Depends on what's thrown at us weatherwise. Sometimes there have still been small patches of snow on the higher peaks in August! Bring warm jumpers!

Gattina - I turn oddment yarns into socks for my daughter in Britain - mother of a burgeoning little hockey player - as she is constantly running up and down muddy sidelines in wellies and swears my socks are the only things that keep her feet warm during the game! Trouble is - they soon wear into holes at the heels - thereby causing me to either mend them all when I visit, or knit more socks! Back to nature : I was amazed when I saw Cowslips here for the first time. Aren't they extinct now in Britain? We even have them turning into Primulas when they get pollinated along with the Primroses. I think there's an older photo amongst my collection of the bank of Primroses and Cowslips that comes up every year despite being smashed to bits in mid-summer by the 'smash-it-to-bits' machine that clears all the roadsides.

12 Mar, 2012

 

I must have been about 7 when we rented a caravan in some woodland near Exmouth one year. The surrounding countryside was covered in swathes of bluebells and cowslips, and, to my shame now, I collected armfuls of both to take back for my Mum. They didn't last very long at all. I think you're right about the cowslips being extinct in the UK now, Nariz.

12 Mar, 2012

 

Nooooooooooooooo! Cowslips are thriving here, mostly in my back garden . . . I give away hundreds of seeds every year (even to some GoYers :))).

12 Mar, 2012

 

hi Nariz
really nice pictures and a nice walk :))

12 Mar, 2012

 

A lovely walk with nice views and interesting plants to see :o)

12 Mar, 2012

 

Could I put myself on the waiting list for some cowslip seed, please, Sheila? I'd love to see if I could get a little colony of them going in the garden, and then what seed I can collect from those I might try spreading around the countryside.

12 Mar, 2012

 

You'd be most welcome Gattina. Just PM me your address, and I'll pop 50 in the post!

13 Mar, 2012

 

Lovely blog: it's nice to see spring spring has arrived, although we really need a lot of rain here in the south east of UK.

13 Mar, 2012

 

We could do with more of the wet stuff here too, Rbtkew.

14 Mar, 2012

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