Harvest time

How did it ever get to be the last day of July? Once again we were out surveying this morning, but it feels like time is running out - verges and grasslands have been mown, the harvest has begun and many fields are already ploughed. We stopped briefly to look at the flora of Sutton Crossways, an ancient trackway dating back at least as far as Saxon times, which crosses Ermine Street close to this point, but this too had been mown making it difficult to assess.