Ladybirds

Ladybirds in the garden

Weybread Mill weirs

After the orchid picnic we drove to Weybread and has a walk along a bit of the Angle Way, mostly me wanting to look at the river but we all had a lovely walkabout.

This is the main weir, the top drop is about two feet and the slope is about another two feet.

An easy enough slide/scrape in any sort of a play boat. This is at pretty low but not quite Summer levels.

Below is the main flow control sluice, about four feet to a flat brick floor. Unlikely to form any sort of user friendly wave as flow increases but you never know...

Orchids

Still very early for orchids but we had a picnic at a patch of unimproved grassland and I managed to find, in a sheltered hollow, the smallest Early Purple Orchid I have ever seen.

A slightly larger companion was about a foot away, they were the only two orchids in the whole reserve, at least around the edges were I walked.

Cowslips were common but mostly very stunted, this was again from a sheltered spot.

Bluebell by the picnic blanket

Haddiscoe woodland Bluebells

In Haddiscoe the Bluebells are just coming out. Another week and a sunny day and they will make a lovely picture.

Pretty Yellow Archangel by the footpath:

And a white Comfrey, just starting to go over:

Primroses on the A145

From a few weeks ago, primroses by the Beccles road

Garden Violets

Violets in the garden still growing well under the Sycamore.

Misty morning

Early morning mist at ground level. To my eye it was grey with a grey silhouette of the tree, remarkably blue on the photograph...