A Mid Morning Stroll

[poliphilo]

It's a changeable morning with clouds blowing over from the south west. Now I'm in sun, now I'm in shade, now I'm in sun again. The hawthorn in the hedgerow is a week or more ahead of the roadside ones we saw yesterday,  its blossoms pinking up and drying out. The chestnuts are in full flower. Every day there are more and more wild-flowers: compact clumpy purple ones and white ones that stick to the boggy patches and yellow ones on long stalks that I'm almost sure are kingcups. Note to self: buy book on British wildflowers. A butterfly flickers past; It has white wings with orange tips. Note to self: buy book on British butterflies. If I stand at the top of the lower field I've an uninterrupted view stretching ten miles or possibly fifteen to the North Downs. 

Comments

[craftyailz.livejournal.com]

Book ordered - and one on wildflowers. xxx :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you. You're wonderful :)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

If you can see the North Downs, give us a wave! :o)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hello. Hello. Can you see me?

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I'll get me binos out! :o)

Btw, that butterfly was probably a sulphur tip. Pretty things although the chalk hill blue is my fave.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sounds likely.

Anyway, I plan to educate myself.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

It's certainly been that way here this evening! to start with, rather overcast, then becoming beautifully bright for a while (no big bunny happenings today, though), before clouding over again for a heavy shower finale. =:/

I wonder if there's a good app for identifying butterflies using the device's camera.. with suitable image recognition, it could automagically bring up the entry for the species in question. Something along those lines for birdsong as well would be rather cool, but I don't believe I've heard of either actually existing. Maybe I should have a go, if not - I've long had a hankering to get into iOS development, and either would be appealing ideas for me.

[charliemc.livejournal.com]

Now those are some exciting ideas for Apps!!!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Those are good ideas.

I'm hopeless with birdsong. Not musical enough. I can't tell one melody from another.

[charliemc.livejournal.com]

Miss butterflies so much. In the killing of moths, they've pretty well done in most local butterflies during my lifetime. It's very sad, I think... (sigh)

Love wildflowers, too. I wish I knew more about flowers, period. Well, never too late to learn!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Why kill moths?

I just saw a really fat one hovering over the hedge in the twilight....