Mid Morning Sky

Mid morning at The Glen near Slaley today.

Early One Morning....

Early morning at the cottage a few days ago, looking over the Kellas Fell Plantation.

Moon Set...

The sky was crystal clear this morning here in South Northumberland, and the moon wonderful.

Durham

A trip to the Osteopath in Durham today, followed by several cups of coffee and a delicious cake at the Cathedral, always a favourite visit since childhood.

I didn't have time to find out about these crosses on the edge of Palace Green, next week perhaps.......

Marbling

Earlier today, the sky at the Cottage was looking as if it was marble, a mixture of wispy cloud and jet trails.

Evening Sky in the Tyne Valley

From Thornbrough Quarry near Corbridge.

Cloudscape.

Interesting cloudscape over Townhead and Hexhamshire yesterday afternoon.

Malus Golden Hornet

Sunset over Weardale

From Edmundbyres Cross this evening.....

Weardale

Looking towards Weardale from near High Stoop.

A Foggy Morning

I opened the front door a few days ago and the view up to the Kellas Woods was shrouded in fog and morning light...

Birch Polypore

I found this Polypore on a log pile above our little burn today.

Bramble Leaf.

Fly Agaric Gills

Fungi

An unknown fungi in the field this morning, a shot made more difficult when Piper the Labrador kept dropping a stick on my head as I lay on the grass....!!

Brambles

Beside the Burn this morning, I just loved the colours....

One God and his Dog.......

The River God Tyne outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne Civic Centre today, along with his "Snowdog", presumably called "Wor Tadger".....!!

Street Art

A striking piece of Street artwork in beside the Ouseburn today..

Bracken

Stormy.......?

St Andrews Church - Corbridge

Verbascum (and companion)

St Andrew's Church, Corbridge

One of the lovely stained glass windows.  Today was the first time I have been in here, my father was Confirmed in this lovely church around 1930 I guess.

Bracken Fronds

Bracken in the morning sun ......

The Sage

I am fascinated by the roof of the Sage Arts Centre in Gateshead...

The View

The View, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Business School and a.n. other. I have had my eye on these three buildings for a few years now, today the light was perfect for what I wanted...

Bird Cherry

Bracken Frond

Taken with a Lumix TZ60

Tansy

Nettle

For the last few summers I have spent hours picking my way through the nettle patches on our land and finding a rich and varied stock of insects but this year they are barren.  Perhaps the ducks who spend a lot of time grazing there have eaten them all?

This summer I will have to make do with  a nettle leaf.......

Gills

The gills of a fungi I found in Slaley Forest a few weeks ago.

Hedgeline Near Slaley

I spotted this a couple of years ago one winters day.....

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Civic Center

Sunset

We are quite blessed living here at the cottage for many reasons, not least of which is the regular, magnificent sunsets.....

Another Day. Another Sunset.....

Lesser Stitchwort

Lesser Stitchwort nestling in a bracken frond on the banks above the burn today.

Dock Leaf

The time of year when leaves start to change colour is rapidly arriving. This dock leaf is one of the first.

Solanum tuberosum L.

Every year we have potatoes growing in the compost bays, none of them planted but growing from some which must have been waste from the kitchen years ago.  No idea what it's companion is called, a hoverfly of some sort.

Post Referendum Apocalypse ......?

I have it on good authority that this is what the sunsets will look like post EU Referendum. Now then, was it the "Stronger-in" or "Brexit" chap who told me.........? Never mind, sounds like we are buggered either way..!!

Daisies

I found a lovely patch of daisies in the orchard at the cottage this morning.

Shakes

We have a pile of timber in the field waiting to be split into logs, as it is drying the surface the wood is developing more and more character.

Primrose

The primroses beside our burn are probably at their peak at the moment, I took this shot in the evening sunlight today.

Pink Tinged Daisy

You will have to forgive me for another photo of these lovely little common daisies, tinged with pink, I think they are fascinating....

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Autumn in Spring

Spring is here (it must be, snow yesterday!) and the usual plants are beginning to come into flower.  Beside the Burn there are still reminders of Autumn, this bramble leaf looks gloriously autumnal in the bright sunshine this morning.  I am guessing that this discolouration is caused by fungal decay.

A very mixed weather day was trailing into an dull and undramatic evening, then I glanced out of the window as the clouds eased to bring this view over Townhead to Hexhamshire beyond....

30 minutes earlier, a Barn Own flew past.......