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