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Post by 4wd on Aug 21, 2019 8:09:27 GMT
Wild mint in a ditch, is the white fuzzy plant Angelica? Not sure about that one. Nice little composition anyway. Many years ago my brother would experiment with making mint sauce from this, it's about 10x stronger than the cultivated version, most things don't try to eat it (clue there)
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Post by 4wd on Aug 22, 2019 9:51:31 GMT
That time again
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Post by 4wd on Aug 24, 2019 17:05:37 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Aug 29, 2019 12:18:51 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Aug 29, 2019 21:38:04 GMT
This is Freeborough Hill by the A171 bewteen Guisborough and Whitby, it looks a bit like Silbury but definitely a natural outlier of moorland sandstone somehow left behind when the ice from Norway gouged all around it. The heather was good this year but has gone over faster than usual in the hot weather last week. There's a nice line of shooting buts visible, which are completely grown over with heather and bilberry.
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Post by 4wd on Aug 31, 2019 18:33:37 GMT
Fading of the summer
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Post by Joyce on Sept 1, 2019 20:33:53 GMT
The flower meadows are stunning, were there many visible insects? The verges between here and the Mids have been in good bloom this year. Much cheaper, prettier and insect etc friendly than neatly cut!
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Post by matthew on Sept 2, 2019 17:59:11 GMT
The son of one of our milk recorders went into a business selling wild flower mixes to plant on the side of motorways. He did very well.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 2, 2019 18:14:41 GMT
It must attract bees and butterflies but it had been showery and rather cool all morning when I stopped. There seems to be a some controversy about using too many North American desert/prairie flowers! They seem to have to re-sow it every year but no doubt poppies and a few others would come again. It looked like it had been rotavated earlier in the year, but I didn't see them do it - and heaven forbid they sprayed off the grass with roundup
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Post by 4wd on Sept 7, 2019 16:27:26 GMT
Looking south from the moors this afternoon - some pokey showers running through Ryedale and Flamingoland theme park/zoo ( click here for full size )From the same spot this easily overlooked stone known as Saddle has been a mapped waymark probably for hundreds of years
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Post by 4wd on Sept 8, 2019 20:11:52 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Sept 17, 2019 8:43:38 GMT
Whorlton Castle near Swainby yesterday. The main ruin is actually just the gatehouse and survived due to being partly rebuilt as a dwelling, probably in the 1600s - then converted into a makeshift barn and storage for a couple of centuries. All that remains of the main castle is a vaulted undercroft/store which is popularly considered a dungeon but it probably wasn't. There are significant outer earthworks though, so it was an important place which was apparently used as a base by the Normans during " The Harrying of the North" Most likely then it would then have been little more than a timber fort on the site though.
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Post by 4wd on Sept 19, 2019 14:37:08 GMT
Classic Fordson Major tractor still earning its keep at Wombleton sheep sale. The only pens of lambs I saw apparently bloom dipped, and they won first prize.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 3, 2019 15:32:49 GMT
Black and White
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Post by 4wd on Oct 11, 2019 17:30:50 GMT
Classic view of Hutton-le-Hole today, but the little beck is a lot higher than normal Where the small waterfall is was a road crossing until about 1970 We went to school thera and on the annual school day trip to Scarborough, the bus got grounded both ends going through the dip.
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