Blue Skies

Hitting the deck, literally, landing in the squidgy muddy silt, legs completely skidding from under me, I was only thankful that I hadn't dropped overboard! The drop of 15 foot into the Severn Estuary onto the mudflats would have been disastrous!

Standing on a sunken barge at Purton, blistering heat, no-one around thankfully, I thought I was walking onto a grass covered area and bang down I went. Covered in mud as I had to get up onto my knees first and crawl onto a safe area , all around was very skiddy. Big mistake to touch the camera at this point too but I had to grab it to stop it touching the floor. Consequently I ended up doing a wash and brush up sitting on the grass with a tissue and a bottle of water but my shorts were covered in mud - the least of my problems really when I started cleaning down the camera with lens fluid! No I wasn't going back to the car but just carried on hoping that no-one would come up and follow me.

However the sun was so hot that everything dried out even down to my knickers - I know - too much information!

Loved this blue butterfly on the Tansy flower clusters gorgeous to see in the sunshine.

More pics from today on flickr.