Yes, I know: it is late, too late... =)

Well, what I mean is that it is so long since last posting that it is too late... but I did take photos - actually I have over 600 photos to choose from... So the net connection was lousy for weeks because of the heat or there was thunder so I could not have the plug in the wall - electricity, I mean... So finally I thought I'd make them pics to videos... and that is what I'm doing - but not ready yet!!! =D

Is there anything more beautiful than a meadow in morning mist when sun is rising and dew evaporating? The scents are misty, too, and insects buzz and whine...

Longshanks!

Birdcherry has berries for birds and the morning glory climbs on the verandah windows.

Dewdrops  shimmer in the light... like color and like ice!

Morning mist and the light of rising sun...

Two small tortoiseshells - in the picture above is a beautiful young one and below an old and battered!

It is dead, the bumble bee in the pic - died by it's work!

My little oak... it has survived two winters and that is a miracle! Tough guy!!

The High Summer is Over!

Yes, the high summer is over - in the past you noticed it when the hay poles emerged on the fields - now it is those 'eggs' - not yet them but another sure sign is the willowherb (epilobium) blossoming. And the white clover (trifolium). We used to make garlands of clover and let them dry on the wall inside - the sweet scent floated around the house for weeks...

Sneezewort (achillea ptarmica) and yarrow (achillea millefolium) also open their flowers at this time to continue for perhaps two months until september. Their flowers are small and modest but if you have a big bunch of them in a vase they look really gorgeous!

 I ran after this admiral trying to get a better picture but this was the closest...

Ditch bank is a home of many plants including spreading bellflower (campanula patula), red campion (melandrium dioecum), northern dock (rumex longifolius) and different cow-wheats (melampyrum). It also seems to be delicious to this little butterfly...

Little birches by the road turn red because of the straight sun shine. 

This field has not been ploughed in some years and it has turned to a meadow with a lot of flowers growing.

Meadow buttercup (ranunculus acris) is opening yellow flowers through the summer from may to september and at midsummer meadows are full of it's beauty!

Wild lupins (lupinus) are growing everywhere but somehow just for a while: after some years they disappear to come back again someday. Lupin have three colors - white, mellow pink and deep blue.

 Many different thistles (cirsium) are also found - handsome purple flowers but on a closer look the stems reveal some frightful spikes!

Sorrel (rumex) has bunches of leaves you can use for a soup or eat with bread and butter - delicious they are! Sorrel is common on meadows and roadsides.

Ditches give humidity to sedge (carex), aöso in bloom now. And in the garden an old perennial has gone wild blossoming here and there...