‘Ello, ‘ello ‘ello.’ It’s a small copper butterfly.
Each time we see one of these we say ‘ello ello ello’ in a small copper type voice.
It’s puntastic fun. 🙂
Lots of stuff happening this week. As well as being stupidly busy in my day job in local government IT I’ve added a new level to my bird game, to represent the disused bit of our town centre that the community has made a bid to buy and redevelop. Over 1,100 people chipped in to buy this disused land, raising a total of over £900,000 to bid for it. We wait for the decision from the council to see if money is the only consideration or if community counts for something too…
Find out more about Mayday Saxonvale. Here’s how it looks in real life, and in my bird song guessing game… Players listen to a song, and guess which bird is singing. Players can travel in time from the days before humans arrived and hear how our impact on nature and avian biodiversity changes the soundscape. It’s a free, web based ‘app like’ game, you can give it a try at https://bird-times.lovable.app/
Over the garden this week I’ve seen either several red kites, or perhaps a particular frequent visitor. My mobile phone snapshot may have somewhat missed the majesty of this marvellous bird. It’s wonderful to see this successful reintroduction of a species.
In the garden, the pinks are flowering. These cottage pinks (dianthus) I think are probably descendants of a ‘lilly the pink’ plant that we got a few years ago. They regrow from cuttings really easily, so we have plenty of them dotted about the place.
The lawn is parched.
The horse head statue is currently surrounded by flowers with the ‘floppiness’ I expect in late August, not in July. But I think the hot weather has caused a lot of plants to stress out and try to set seed as soon as possible.
And finally, I especially like these little pansies. They were grown from seeds saved from last year’s plants, and seem happy hanging out by the pot of thyme by our back door…
So that’s my six for this week. See more at Garden ruminations.
Have a lovely week!
Jen xxx
Even dry down where you are! My lawn also is mostly brown and yes, I would say that things here are looking like early September, but the vegetables are doing well as I am watering them rain water or no. I am butterfly starved if you don’t count the cabbage whites, so my fave is the adorable copper. Bravo on the red kite. I saw two bald eagles in a tree near the park and ride the other day and was pleased. I took a picture, but only to confirm they were bald eagles, zooming in to verify a very pixilated, but white head- made me long for my old film camera with telephoto lens. I could have gotten a nice shot with that, but then I would have had to figure out where one gets film developed now. I remember there used to be little drive up kiosks where you would drop off you film. No idea what people do now.Monday I am off to River Falls for the culmination of this year’s radiological emergency preparedness exercise. Apparently the powers that be have given FEMA some operating budget. We might get some rain Monday as well. I sure hope so! Temps in the 90s (30s) this weekend, again. I will probably drag out the hose again on Sunday to water the veg.
What a beautiful little butterfly! My lawn is parched, too, as are the Hydrangeas and many other water hogs. I hope we’ll both get some needed rain soon.
I did see one or two kites in Cornwall perhaps 10 years or so ago but none in recent times. I’d have liked to have seen them become more common. It’s encouraging to get that level of community involvement with the town centre development, I have a hunch it wouldn’t happen in our nearest town.
Are those the same pansies that I was so skeptical of?
Yes 🙂