The Last Day in May 2023

A few more photos of the last few days in May 

A ship a sailing...

The water lily is almost ready to flower.

Lots of toad tadpoles.

They look quite different to frog tadpoles.

One of our lovely bush roses full of flowers.

A small climbing rose we have just planted.

Such a delicate little flower.

Percy's rose is full of blooms as well.

Beautiful yellow.

Gorgeous scented freesias.

These ones have come up 'wild'. 

Fantastic blue sky...

 

Sunny Sunday.

A very beautiful early morning walk today/

Naughty sheep outside of their field.

You can see where there have been coming in and out of the paddock.

The lighthouse in the distance.

Sea and sky, perfect.

Listening.

Splash

I believe this is wild garlic.

This is a memorial to a young boy who died after falling from his horse in this spot

You can read about it here:   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106656935/francis-gray-bacon

I seem to do a lot of hill walking...my phone app is quite funny in that it says how many 'floors' I climb...today apparently it was 45 floors!  

I know that I do feel a bit like a mountain goat at times.

I must see if it gives highest values...that would be interesting.

I forgot to post a couple of photos from the garden yesterday...or rather the pond.

I had to top the water up as the level had gone down significantly the last couple of weeks.

The water lily is growing.

There are masses of tadpoles

and yes still a lot of green slimy blanket weed!

Today I reorganised the green house a bit.  Planted out some radishes, and also sowed some parsnip seeds in my top garden patch I dug over a few days ago.

I cleaned out the guinea pigs this morning, so they are happy munching on their new hay. 

Flowers on Sunday

Into the garden...it has rained the last couple of days so been a bit miserable.  The first four photos were taken yesterday during a brief dry spell.  

This spider was seen when we were clearing out a mini storage shed which we have moved to the back of the garden.  We are finally having the house painted which also means a jolly good clear out and clean up!

The rest of the flowers were taken during the week.  All from my garden.

The tadpoles are growing up!  They were all enjoying a spot of warm sun one afternoon.

Every morning a woodpecker visits our bird feeders...but he/she is proving to be very elusive when it comes to capturing her/him on film!  Hopefully patience will eventually pay off and reward me with a shot.

I am still working away at clearing and sorting.... I have started to clear out my sewing studio, but had to stop due to the rain as I have to move everything out and put on the patio area and then put everything back in again later in the day before I have finished which means the job seems to take so much longer!  I just seem to be so exhausted all the time which doesn't make a lot of sense as I am otherwise fit and healthy and eating properly.  Wondering if my iron stores have dropped to a low level again - can't think of any other reason why I would feel so exhausted.  True I don't sleep especially well because of the pain, but this is something else.  It is more than just being tired.