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| Chicory, Cichorium intybus, in Jubilee Country Park. 21 July 2013. |
Here are a few more iPhone pics taken during the year. There's a bit more of nature in this set.
The first one is a bank of chicory in Jubilee Country Park. The park has this flower as its emblem. I took this shot to show the white-flowered plant in the foreground. It seems to be a natural variety.
The salad chicory plant is a different subspecies, but you can certainly eat these flowers, if you are prepared to chance the possibility that they have dog urine on them. It's a popular park!
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| Hayes Common, 20 June 2013. |
Someone had left this lighted candle on the barrier. Probably it had been there since the night before. It's vanilla and hazlenut scented, which sounds quite tasty.
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| Railway bridge on Tiepigs Lane, Hayes. 20 June 2013. |
I took this because it seemed to be in a state of disrepair - and it's a well-used bridge, with 8 or more trains an hour, and it's my route into London, so I did wonder how long it would be left to deteriorate. But it has since been repaired.
The sign on the left identifies the bridge and gives a phone number. So if it falls down, we will know who to call, if we can get the sign out from under the rubble.
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| Rowan trees on Ashdown Forest. 6 August 2013. |
Two beautiful Rowan trees on Ashdown Forest. Rowans put on a lovely show in the second half of the summer.
The beautiful Rowans sent me to Wikipedia, where I found an unusually thorough and interesting etymological essay. I don't think much of ladies' novels fascination with rowans and witches. Tolkien, of course, as first a philologist, was interested enough to use them. The only other male author I can think of who liked witches was Terry Pratchett, but of course those titles were books for little girls. I still like the rats better. But the trees are indeed lovely and interesting.
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