it was a lovely morning for a walk today.
i woke up to blue skies and it was chilly but oh so nice to be out
every holly tree is laden with bright red berries~i still say we are in for a hard winter
i woke up to blue skies and it was chilly but oh so nice to be out
every holly tree is laden with bright red berries~i still say we are in for a hard winter
plenty of rose hips are on the bushes...but i think people were there before me as a lot of them are a bit of a reach!
the green bracken of summer has now become either a golden brown or red~some of the ponies fur matches it exactly
crab apples litter the ground~next year i shall be making crab apple jelly
hey its me!
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i started gathering my rose hips this afternoon but my bag caught on a bramble and ripped~which made swampy laugh~so i only had a handful.
tomorrow i will be taking a Tupperware box and on the way home found a long line of untouched bushes near where we walk so hopefully i will be able to gather the two pounds i need.
i noticed some sloes but don't think that at this time of year i will be able to gather enough to make use of.
next year i plan to be much more organised.
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now i am home in the warm, with candles lit and 'the darling bids of may' has just come on the tv~so i shall say goodbye for today!
6 comments:
lovely :)
what are sloes?
your time when you arrived home - candles & darling buds of May sounds so snuggly xo
I quite enjoyed that walk ;-)
You mentioned candles in an earlier post (still trying to catch up!)... can I ask, do you make them or buy them? I ask because I've been on a bit of a hunt lately for some scented ones for winter, and have been so disappointed with any I've purchased as the scent seems either non-existent or goes within a couple of burnings :(
I love it that we Blog friends can share oneanothers favourite walks!
robyn sloes are the fruit of the blackthorn.
they are a purple/black color and can be used for sloe gin
Lovely walk, thank you. We've noticed on our recent jaunts that the hedgerows are loaded down with berries.
twiggy x
Ah, time! How nice when we have enough of it to walk, and notice, and harvest what we can. Laoi, thank you for this post.
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