Saturday, 6 November 2021

Unusual Sky Behaviour After an Aircraft Flew Overhead.

Living by the coast, I am used to the weather changing a lot, and the differing sky patterns, however what happened yesterday was extremely unusual.  We don't get a lot of planes fly overhead, usually just light aircraft and the odd spitfire.  

Yesterday morning was a beautiful morning with a completely blue sky.  I then heard what sounded like an aircraft overhead flying backwards and forwards, and this has happened before, but they have never left trails like this, EVER!

I wasn't the only person to notice this, as the delivery driver said the same later in the afternoon when he dropped off a packaged.



This was the result


The whole sky became completely covered with these 'trails'.





Notice the streaks coming down from these 'trails'







Now this is what you usually see when an aircraft flies overhead... no trails.  


This was yesterday as well.


The day gradually changed as these trails 'thickened' up.



Until it became this!


From my almost two years here of observing the weather and cloud patterns I have never seen something like this happen before.


Oh and I noticed the weather app completely changed from what it was reading in the morning for the next few days forecast...not that I usually believe that anyway, but a complete change in just a few hours???





Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Butterflies Galore!

I don't think I have ever seen so many butterflies in one place ever before.  Yesterday, while standing at the new garden office building we have been having built we saw what would be probably at least 50 if not 100 butterflies flying and landing on our fig tree and also on the sunflowers.  It was incredible and they were there again this morning.  What an amazing spectacle and a real delight.  I managed to capture some of them on film.  Rather a few butterfly photos coming!


On the sunflowers.



Beautiful Red Admirals. 


Red Admiral and Large White





Sunning themselves on the shed






A Comma on the fig



Wings closed.

A few flowers...



Loving this rose.


Cyclamen under the plum tree.


We have a lot of these growing wild in the garden, mostly in the orchard, but also round the bottom of a few trees, and along our bank.

 

Monday, 13 September 2021

An Afternoon at Mottistone Gardens.

We had a lovely Sunday afternoon at National Trust's Mottistone Manor Gardens.


I'll let the photos do the 'talking' while I wander around with the camera.




Love this cabin.  I have taken a photo of it before the last time we visited, but this time I forgot to take a photograph of the outside. 


So I have 'borrowed' the photograph I took in 2016







We had a pleasant lunch outside in the gardens.




Beautiful yellows against the blue sky.











Mining bees.


A glimpse of the sea through the trees.






Lovely paths wandering through the gardens.






Gorgeous sweet peas.



My MIL and hubby.

































The history behind Warrior is fascinating and amazing to read about his life.  What an amazing story and such a brave animal.















There are also some lovely walks which we will probably go on when the gardens themselves are closed.  It is such a beautiful place to visit.