Down of a thistle? No!

 Energetic - me?

 Woolgathering on floor two

 Downy Woodpecker:

 WOB

 

I was not expecting to gather any wool or down, honest, not motivated. wob

Forest Drought

 I am looking South:

 I am on the East side of the road - the sun is on the right/West side.

 The Sun is sufficiently far away that one can say the rays are parallel - the rim of the hat

is 28cm across and its shadow sets the scale on the  ground in the ditch .I am looking down, into the ditch on the East side from the edge of the road.

About midway along the ditch  but still 100m from the lowest point, I take 2 photos:

one looking back, North:

 

 And one looking South from approximately the same spot:

 

Very few signs of Arrowheads after the bushwacking/ditch clear-out.

 

Sadly,

WOB 

In memoriam

 

Flower of Scotland  

 

 

Will we see your likes again?

 

 

Scottish Tapestry

 

 

 

 

 

WOB 

 

Flower of Scotland   

Will we see your likes again? 
Scottish Tapestry 

 

Vicki and I were strongly influenced by the Corries and Roy Williamson who penned this song about 1967. about the time we met Mary, James, and Michael.

 

WOB Teaches Turtle Trick Two

 It was nearly 10 days ago, back to school before the Winter break  when the WOB taught high wire balancing on a belly button - except that turtles don't seem to have them!

Yesterday was another teaching-learning opportunity:

 An idyllic class room surrounded by Mother Nature.

 Now wait for it, this is a tale about a tail!

 

 Class dismissed for exceptional achievement.

 

Proud teacher,

WOB 

Along the Severn
A Turtle suns on a rock
A tale of a tail 

A "chance" encounter on the Severn

 We were walking along the canal enjoying the Autumn colours:

 

 

Alvar bathing

 Alvar bathing now

 Now? Before it is too late!

 Wylie?

 

 - Line Thirteen!

 

 "Charlie" on the plains

 Carden before panels block
Alvar's birds and plants:

 

 It will not be easy being "green", renewable and sustainable, will  it?

 Solar panels, a solar "farm" for Carden? Bye, bye diversity of the rare

and endangered. 

WOB