Crops are growing

I still pinch myself everyday at our new life and at the end of this month we would have been living this life for 1 year.  living in the middle of farming country you get to see every small detail of the season change and how glorious it is, all these pictures are taken on the road from our house to school and how could you not love to do the school run being greeted this.

 This field of barley is so beautiful that Sophie and I stopped the car for half an hour and just sat and listened to the wind rustling across the field and we actually saw waves form as the wind blew across the barley and the birds we singing it was a slice of heaven.

 The colours are totally amazing greens and gold's set off by brilliant blue skies and soft white clouds with the odd pop of colour from wild forna.

 Even the rivers are like glass deep cool and clear enough to see fish as dragonflies dance above them.

Sometimes I wonder if I am walking are a series of beautiful artworks, our countryside really is a wonderful place.

Owl in the meadow

 What a treat to see a barn owl, but lucky me got to watch one hunting and I took a few snaps of it so please excuse the lack of tripod, wrong speed and I wish I had a better lens

Seeing red

It is that time of year where the poppies are literally popping up all over my garden is a mix of self seeded wild poppies and ornamental and the country lanes are cram packed with gentle red heads nodding to the insects to come over and visit them.

On our street there is a wonderful gentle climb and it is awash with red, and is very eye catching.

Here are the poppies from my garden, I had Sophie help me shake seeds last year and she ended up shaking all the poppy seeds in a big clump rather than sprinkling them around now I have this rather strangely mass group of poppies slap bang in the garden, looking ever so lovely but very out of place.

Phacelia

 

 I really love where we live, we are so lucky surrounded by farm country I seem to be spoilt for choice for things to look at and you really do notice all the subtle changes each season bring.  I can literally walk out of my front door walk 400 yards and be greeted by this field of strange but very beautiful plants, this is Phacelia, grown for a few reason one as a green manure but also grown to help bring in all the beneficial insects needed for pollination and eating all those aphids, it is also a great meadow plant for the same reasons. 

 

I love the colour very effeminate with frothy tops of pretty flowers underneath a gorgeous structural spiral of trumpets holding all those lovely blooms.  I am definitely going to get a packet of seeds of this for our meadow I think they are just divine.

ladies down our street

Well this is how we roll now, living in the country and these are the local ladies on the street, how beautiful are these pretty cows, all bright eyes with long lashes and curious sniffing snouts, happy to great us and chew the cud of the day.

isn't that a face you could fall in love with, gentle brown eyes and a soft wet nose

 

 I just love this picture below, nose up mooing what a great day it is.

 I think these cows just loved having their picture taken they didn't stop posing and when we said good bye to continue the school run they looked a bit sad we left.