Monday, June 10, 2019

Monday morning on the Trail

One of my favourite times to cycle on the  Monsal Trail is Monday morning because it's so quiet. I set off at 7.30 in a desperate mood after reading the news, but just a quarter of a mile from home, I was already feeling better.


Last week Jenetta, a blog reader, suggested I should drip feed pictures of the vegetation on the Trail that are mentioned in Even When They Know You, so here are a few I photographed this morning.

These are what I call moonpennies - what do you call them? Oxeye daisies? They can be as tall as 2 foot high.




Dogroses:



Rough chervil:




Bird's foot trefoil, on the cliff-top above Water-cum-jolly, Jane's favourite 'thinking spot'




And here's something growing by the station platform at Great Longstone which I can't find in my wild flower book. Do you know what it is?
  
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6 comments:

  1. Helen1:10 pm

    Was that today? It's been raining all day here in Amber Valley. Beautiful pix. Possibly Sweet Cicely? Can't quite see the leaves. Hubby would know but he's on a school trip until tomorrow

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  2. Sue Hepworth1:36 pm

    Hi Helen, it was still sunny at 11.30 here.
    It isn't Sweet Cicely - I know that, and oddly, there is hardly any on the Trail.

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  3. Helen1:48 pm

    Am clueless then!

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  4. Anonymous3:37 pm

    Lovely photos.
    LRH

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  5. Sue Hepworth4:33 pm

    Thank you, LRH. xx

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  6. Anonymous9:25 am

    Well you learn something new every day so they say: I have learned much googling cow parsley vs rough chervil - and now know it can be very similar to Hemlock - wonder if your mystery plant is a juvenile Hemlock? Jenetta

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