Where's the heatwave?

After several days of weather forecasts full of hot weather and sunshine, we in Cumbria are beginning to wonder where it is. The answer is simple. As usual, it's in the south, but it looks like we might be offered a taste of sunshine early next week. Here's hoping. So after a wet morning we managed to get out for an hour or so, a walk that is known locally as 'round Yewdale'. Out of the village on the Ambleside road, into Yewdale Woods, cutting across the Yewdale Valley at Low Yewdale, through to Boon Crag and the head of the lake, then returning to the village. There has been much cutting of the hedgerows and verges, so not many flowering plants left to photograph, but the decimation of the hedges by mechanical means has far wider implications for our wildlife than for a photographer. The impact on birds, mammals and others can be a devastating loss of food sources and habitat. Here is some of what we did see today....

I seem to be developing a strange fascination for this bridge in Yewdale Woods...

Yes I know, I've photographed it a few times this summer.

Crocosmia, growing beside the path in the wood.

Angelica, a flower that apears in the woods and along the margins of fields in late summer.

Snow berry, a shrub with a tiny flower and soft white berries.

A very small balsam flower. It looks like a smaller version of the Indian Balsam that I posted earlier in the week, but yet to be positively identified.

The same balsam flower.

These are the seed berries of an arum lily goes by many common names. Lords and Ladies, Parson in The Pulpit and Cuckoo Pint to name a few.

Sailing offshore from Tent Lodge.