Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Weardale in early summer: St. John's Chapel


Weardale is at its most beautiful in June.  These are a few photographs taken recently around the village of St. John's Chapel, in the middle of the dale.
















Burnet rose, the most fragrant of all the native wild roses.


















A single wood cranesbill plant in a sea of buttercups.
















Meadows full of buttercups, seen from Chapel fell


























A froth of cow parsley flowers along roadsides and around the edge of fields.


















Hawthorn in bloom along the footpath beside the river Wear















Hawthorn still blooming beside Harthope burn. Water levels are low after a very dry spring.
















Glorious hay meadows















Lady's mantle and wood cranesbill

























Meadow foxtail grass in flower

















Pignut's lacy umbels
















Lambs fattening


















Wood cranesbill

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful images Phil. It seems that Buttercups are proliferating everywhere just now, even in Oregon and Wisconsin.

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