Ripening Wheat at Selhurst Park

Most males will associate Selhurst Park with football, but for one with a fairly limited interest in the subject, this is an area of woodland on the South Downs rather than Crystal Palace's Ground (If they still use it!!)

It was a horribly hot and humid day - the kind of weather that I really dislike. Despite this it was fairly tolerable in Chichester and up here on the way home it was not too bad with some breeze. This end of the downs has a mixture of woodland and large arable fields. The woodland belongs to the Forestry Commission and some possibly to the Goodwood Estate and comprises quite a lot of conifers. I always think that this mix of country with fir trees reminds me of the vast expanses of mixed open arable land and forest that I have seen when passing through Germany, especially in parts of the south of the country. The wide expanse by the edge has been left for wildlife, but apart from a solitary Meadow Brown, there wasn't much up here!