Day 21

Joyfully woke up early to full sunshine and headed to orchid glade.  Normally, this weekend every year, it’s a meadow alive with butterflies and carpeted with wild flowers including twayblade and southern marsh orchid growing as high as your knees.  Today, I found some thistles, a couple of buttercups, briar rose and a half eaten trefoil.

Not to be deterred, I looked a bit harder.  I found 3, 2 inch high, orchids with deer/rabbit/insert herbivore of your choice - nibbled leaves.  This meant going fully prone for the shot - so I’m giving myself a star for effort......and now it’s cold and rainy so back home with a cuppa feeling smug ;-)