Summer 2016, misty floral days

There have been few really sunny days this summer but every season has it's winners and losers. This year had the summer of fruits : rhubarb, blackcurrants, strawberries, red currents and there are loads of little apples and pears on the trees.
The heavy rain early in the spring seems to have suited them and also many of the wild flowers in the hedgerows and by the lakes.
Random photos below of the sights this year (along with Connie) the red Border Collie. She's not very smart but she is our "Love Dog" - nothing pleases her more then to lie with us and get petted and  snuggle. A needy girl but full of charm.

Some Cultivated flowers by the house.

Summer walks

Canal Walk

Barley Harbour

                    Look what he found!

Wish I could record the delicious scent along this path.

                            Successful duck family

A trip to Kinvarra

A hot day, a good day to drive over to Kinvarra in Co. Galway

A bit hot for the old boy

Then back to the fields

June and July 2016 - Fruit and Flowers

Spring two thousand and sixteen brought a LOT of rainfall and it didn't look like summer would ever really come - but of course it did.

                                                 Old Faithful in full bloom

                                         A blue sky - there were several - especially mid-July

Even boring old Potentilla looking good by the canal

A great season for soft fruits this year (apparently they appreciate loads of water in spring)

Plenty of fruit crumbles and Clafoutis and wrapped in the freezer and 

some sinful desert - Raspberry and Strawberry Pavlova - the queen pf

all deserts.

Looking Back at 2015 - some more

It's wet wet wet - soggy, muddy, cold now in February 2016, here in the midlands.
Looking back at photos from this time last year through spring, summer , autumn winter is somewhat consoling - we shall have them all again.
Until then...

 Blue pump, grey sky January 2015

Huddie in the woods in woods feb 2015

                                         "Let me in!"...frog at the font door feb. 2015

Moos our again

                                          Hello mini daffs

                                          Snowey March 2015

Young moos out 

Circles walls, hut in Moat

Woods light 

Hawthorne May 2015

Here are the herbs! 

                                           Pink Hawthorne is out

 
                                         Strawberry flowers - self-planted in the gravel
                                             

                                         Poisonous beauty - Laburnum

                                                       A little lettuce

                                                       Violas are loving it in their basket

Goosegobe and black currents on the way May 2015

                                       "Outside in " in September 2015 - pot and cut flowers