Friday 14 July 2017

Vibrant colours of summer

As I often do, I joined Crafty Green Boyfriend for a lunchtime walk round Corstorphine Hill. The colours of the ragwort, rosebay willow herb and foxgloves are vibrant in the bright sunshine

We saw a couple of ringlet butterflies and a red admiral, which we will record for the Big Butterfly Count, which starts today and lasts until 6 August.

We also picked quite a lot of raspberries. Crafty Green Boyfriend's mother makes excellent raspberry jam, but I always like to eat some of the berries as I pick them!

There's also a lovely spash of wildflower colours in the mini wildflower meadow that has been planted in Brunstfield Links, which I photographed yesterday


And there's some vibrant colour in the Crafty Green Poet Etsy shop with this dragonfly charm necklace

which is in the shop here.





6 comments:

Simon Douglas Thompson said...

Your meadow shows how much later Scotland is - most of them here are past their best by now - all the poppies are long gone!

Wild rasberries though!

eileeninmd said...

Hello,the wildflowers are beautiful. I love all the colors. Your necklace is lovely. Happy Friday, enjoy your weekend!

sage said...

Scotland was so filled with wildflowers and I loved the fox gloves (but wondered about the name)

Lowcarb team member said...

Such lovely colours in your photographs.
I like the look of your necklace too.

Happy Weekend Wishes

All the best Jan

Jamie Purves said...

Great to see the hill so colourful. Any wasps around? The badgers used to dig the nests out in the summer and then dogs would blunder in to them; lots of cross wasps!

Crafty Green Poet said...

Sage - no real idea where the name comes from....

Jamie - very few wasps ...