Today's 3.5 mile walk was in the scorching heat on footpaths and bridleways (part of which was the Clarendon Way) through farmland at Houghton, south of Stockbridge. As we left the car I had a waft of 'the smell of summer' - well it is for me anyway - a privet hedge, yum! It reminds me of summers back when I was a child because our next door neighbours had an enormous privet hedge across the bottom of their garden.
The smell of summer, privet flowers.
you can't make a phone call from the box any more but you can
borrow a book!
The edges of the fields were full of flowers.
This explains why.
It was just soooooo hot walking along here.
Just imagine the heat!
I do love fields of cereals, we saw a few types today but I especially like the look of barley (at least I think it's barley!), the whole field looked soft and fluffy.
Scabious.
We saw lots of butterflies, a kestrel and a couple of buzzards and heard lots of small birds as well as a fair bit of rustling in the hedgerows as things scurried away.
After this walk today, it'll be a miracle if we don't get a tick or two, they're a true sign of summer!
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