A Summer Voyage Around My Garden

Birds a-plenty, including at least two young woodpeckers

Collared doves

House plants are out getting fresh air and exercise, while the windowsills get an airing

Jay

Lady blackbird and chaffinch

Marguerites self-seeded by the washing-line lawn

Strawberries

Poppies

Geraniums and honeysuckle

Another jay

Assorted tits

Poppies again

Hose-plant holiday camp

Collared dove and male blackbird

Lettuces

Mock-orange

More assorted birds

Pink roses and self-seeded poppies by the woodshed

All is green, exuberant, and smells so nice...

Not shown (but maybe later) the freshly-mown lawns and strimmed edges, new (wonky) burning-waste bin, vegetables and soft fruits...

 

Cranky Afternoon and a Half-Cut Lawn

Fettling cranks - dirty work but I seem to have to do it more and more these days. Lovely sunshine all day, and I managed to cut about 30 buckets of lawn, then fell gently over having got...

...this far...

Cat approves

...but prefers the longer stuff....