As I look out on the torrential rain this morning, last week’s two days of summer seem a very long time a go. Anyhow, proof that they did exist, around the boating pond at least. But even then that grey cloud was already hovering. Anyhow, I also made the best of the two days and, …
Boating pond Hampstead heath
Cool off……
These ferns in Kenwood Woods looked amazingly cool and appealing this afternoon… as did this walk the same woods’ towering trees. And I was obviously not the only one with that idea! Earlier today, before the heat set in, the men’s pond was already heaving at 7am. Yes – all those dots are swimmers. But …
More bark, more birds – and lots of wind
Sheltering from the winds in the woods this afternoon, I happened upon some rather stunning tree bark. The first one is, I think, an elderly birch… ..but I have no idea about number two…. …or, come to that, bark three – except that I can see a a small and well disguised lizard …
Gone fishin’
It was grey and miserable on Friday when I walked round the boating pond, but that was not putting off those keen fishermen who, finally released from lock down a few weeks ago, have scarcely been able to get near the pond for the hordes of un-socially distanced families and people ‘working from home’. So …