Some Places are just Gorgeous.

This is one of them.

Horse chestnut flowers

The horse chestnut tree has conkers in the autumn.
In the spring the tree bears lovely flowers, what I had not realised was the amount of colour that can be found in the chestnut flower spikes.
The flowers when seen from afar look white, up close they show pink and yellow are part of the flowers colour scheme, amazing.

Barn Owls

There are a pair of barn owls nesting in that tree over there!
I sat for a while but they did not appear.
Wonder if I will spend all summer missing taking a photo of the barn owls?

Walk in the Bluebell Woods

Had a walk through the bluebell woods at the weekend. 

I just adore bluebells and as it was a rather warm day their scent was wonderful.

Voles

The sad truth is we have voles!
I understand that there really are FAR more important and really sad things going on, however, when you are trying to grow food and find it is being eaten away under the earth, and the poor plants no longer have roots it is sad.  Oh and very annoying.

On a positive, the apple trees have a profusion of blossom, let's hope for a bountiful harvest this autumn.