Herb Riddle's photos with the keyword: Wild-flowers

Seen on our local short walks last September. Our council have created quite a few of these wild flower area’s to brighten the place up and give our wild life a better habitat. I have even seen people sitting on this bench! PiP Enjoy full screen.

Cumbria, an area in the North West of England, most famous perhaps for the National Park of The English Lake District but having more to offer on its extensive coast, towns, moors and pastures. Here we see another side of the lake of Loweswater where trees and wild flowers full of bees cascade from the high Fells towards the lake. A very small portion of which, can just be made out almost middle left. See PiP Enjoy full screen PS - I shall take a break from these Lake District scenes for a week or so now and return to my 2014 Wonders of Mallorca selections.

As we walk past fields of glorious yellow, we see and feel the beauty of our world again. Even the damp fence post seem to reflect the yellows too, but in actual fact, on closer inspection one can see it is in fact yet more of the yellow heads dancing around in the foreground breeze. Now let our eyes and mind meander along to the gate on the right and simply Enjoy! The yellow flowers are 'Ragwort' (senecio jacobaea), a semi- poisonous nuisance weed –that is very bad for livestock, although it tastes so bad that animals are repelled by it. It thrives with other insects though, so good for nature in general. HFF. Let’s have a safe and enjoyable weekend.

As we here in England take the first steps to normalisation in this C19 lockdown, we get natures reply. Taken on a recent isolation exercise walk, this is along a place I know as ‘Roger Rocks’. In reality it is part of the larger Country Park area called ‘Park-Bridge’ in Ashton-under-Lyne. Running down the centre of the photo from left to right is the River Medlock, almost in draught condition. Of course the colours and verdant wild-flowers of late May in this beautiful lighting attracted me to this. As usual best view full screen on black.