Walker, bimbler, nature lover, home baker and inexpert gardener. Toot musings mostly on those subjects but political opinions may slip in. Member of the Green Party and proud member of the wokerati. Devon born and raised, now living in West Wales, UK.
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Last Notes npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Out for a proper walk for the first time in ages. The Doethie valley looking beautiful in its autumn colours. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton And I have a #caturday! I went to get veg from the farm shop and Rudi (former hedgehog food thief) came to greet me. We had lots of cuddles, she groomed my hair and dribbled a lot! npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Even the most humble path looks beautiful in golden afternoon sunshine. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A #hedgehog shaking it all out in slo-mo is too funny. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I juiced enough apples from the damaged tree for one batch of cider. Still have enough to do at least one more. Not as many as last year, and smaller fruit but tasty all the same. Hopefully it ciders ok. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Water back on 🚿 🎉 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Just opened the lid of the hedgehog feeding station to fill the food bowl and found a very puffed up and indignant hog. I apologised and let them finish. When I went back they’d gone. Food now topped up for the next sitting. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton My favourite apple tree (the one outside my office window) has fallen victim to storm Boelo 😢. It is still standing but it has lost a main branch and is now very lopsided. The trunk is hollow so it’s pretty vulnerable. It is laden with fruit as the variety is late to ripen. I started picking them today with the intention of making cider. I will need to look into propagating it fairly soon, just in case we lose it. No idea how mind. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Spotted a couple of melanistic fallow deer today (the deer fence of a posh estate doing its job of keeping them - and the plebs - out). There’s a big population of this colour variant around these parts. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Dartmoor and belties ❤️ npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Ah rural life. I’ve suspected a mouse in the house for a while. Ultrasonic deterrent doing little to deter. Mouse droppings in the cupboard under the sink. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I finally managed to get a good day in the garden today. And I found a froggy friend. Two actually, though I only got a pic of one. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton The husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary yesterday so we enjoyed an actual day out together for the first time in I don’t know how long. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I went out to get the hedgehog camera sd cards this morning and was ambushed by Mrs P the pheasant so she got some corn. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton French #Train travel folk, would you recommend OUIGO over normal TGV for a long-ish journey? Friend and I are planning a trip next spring and fares are now available for the OUIGO trains but not yet for the normal TGV. We’ll have baggage so as with no-frills air travel we’d have to pay extra for those and seat selection etc. Just wondered if worth it. Train journey just over 4 hours. Thanks! npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton This is like a hedgehog ‘follow the ball’ game. Follow the hog to find the winner. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’ve donned my shepherdess cloak (sadly only metaphorically) for the next couple of weeks for my neighbours’ sheep. The ewes are in the fields in front of the house so I can count them from the window, but I walk over to feed the rams (they’re having extra treats to build up stamina!). They came running yesterday and, after a bit of jostling, organised themselves in order of size at the trough. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Mrs P making herself comfortable again. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Common carder bees (I think) feeding on the dahlias, which are enjoying a second wind. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton If anyone else has a shit-ton of damsons, I can recommend this cake recipe as a change from jam and crumble (nothing wrong with either btw). It uses apples too. So that’s two of my five a day. Three if you count cream. No? Oh, ok, two it is. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Crappy zoomed in mobile phone photo but cool sunset (made less cool by me saying ‘it looks like a burger!’). npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’m painting our soffits this morning. I found a very wet and bedraggled bumblebee at the top of the scaffolding so carried them down to some flowers, which they seemed to appreciate. Then I found a bush cricket inspecting my pointing! (Don’t look too closely - it’s my first attempt). npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I went to hang out some washing and Hen Pen the pheasant ran up to me, so I went to get some food for her. She followed me to the house and back, running at heel like a tiny, feathered pet dinosaur. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A hedgehog just took a liking to the hem of my long skirt. I had to gently extricate it from their teeth and/or claws (it’s dark so I couldn’t see). They froze for a moment then ran hell for leather into the shrubbery. They’ve recovered enough to go and eat some kibble now though. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’m sitting watching the swallows and house martins swoop over the field and gather on the electricity wires. Noticed this ‘rainbow without rain’. Any guesses as to what might cause it? 🌈 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A #hedgehog just sniffed my toes 🥹 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I think these are damsons. There was only a handful of small fruit last year and I thought they were perhaps bullace, but the trees are laden this year. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Cheeky mouse! I’m sitting right here. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday #BloomScrolling npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Scaffolders have been here since just after 8am. A nice bunch and their radio is tuned to a station playing music I actually recognise…ah just heard that it’s an ‘80s feel good’ playlist. That explains it. ‘Footloose’ playing atm 🕺 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A branch has come down on our electricity line. And we have low water pressure. Apparently both issues heat related. Yay. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton This was the second hedgehog scuffle last night after I saw one earlier. A totally unnecessary and unprovoked bulldozing! The bulldozed hog was fine and seen trundling away in a subsequent video to return later when the coast was clear. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton In addition to dolphins (best shot I could get) I saw a couple of grey seals loafing on a rock. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #FootpathFriday from the Ceredigion Coast. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton We have this big piece of timber along the edge of our pond. It’s rotten and needs replacing but this is on a long list of jobs (it’s on top of a wall that needs to be reset 🙄). npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Have just been sitting out watching a #hedgehog. They hung around for about half an hour, polishing off the decoy biscuits that are meant to distract the mice and voles from the hedgehog food. They then hoovered up the hedgehog food I’d scattered in front of the feeding station, and had a good drink or two, before trundling off. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #BloomScrollingWithABee npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday #BloomScrolling npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I got caught in traffic on my way home yesterday. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I had a much needed dose of nature today. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’ve not had a great day, very down in the dumps. But it was a nice evening so I thought I’d pull some weeds in the driveway (an endless task and not one to help my mood). For some reason I looked over to hedgehog corner and there was a hog trundling about early, before I’d put the food out. I quickly filled up the dish and scattered some food for rootling. Hog made themselves scarce then shortly after reappeared. Watching him did cheer me up. He’s the one with the cough but a couple of videos reassured the hog rehabber that it wasn’t severe and that intervention wasn’t needed right now. I’m relieved, not least because he’s actually quite fast when approached. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton The robin giving me a look (and preventing me from finishing my coffee) because I don’t have any mealworms to hand npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’ve managed to do well with sweetpeas this year after a couple of lacklustre attempts. I have a wall of them in the veg patch, having thrown all spacing rules to the wind. The majority pink and white ones are ‘painted lady’, an old fashioned mix of colours is a bit slower to bloom. All have a divine scent. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I planted out 12 sweetheart cabbage babies yesterday. Under fleece. All munched 😭. Those pesky voles. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Bloody hell just found peach carnage in the greenhouse. Looks like squirrels may have discovered them. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’ve just eaten my first peach from the tree this year. It was super juicy and delicious. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Finally made it home, stopping on my way back from the station to watch the sun set over Cardigan bay. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton L’arbre d’or, the golden tree, stands in the Val sans Retour, the valley of no return, in the forest of Broceliande in Brittany. Broceliande is known for its Arthurian legends but the golden tree is a memorial to the forest destroyed in a fire in 1990. This chestnut was one of the last trees to burn and was then covered in gold leaf to stand as a monument and to symbolise hope. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Had a little bimble on my way back from getting my hair cut. A little spot that’s been on my list. It even has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort. No dolphins or seals today but lots of birds. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton @nprofile…j87y I’m trying to confuse everyone (myself included) by popping plants in randomly wherever there’s space and hoping some will go unnoticed, but the voles are too smart for that. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Companion planting in the veg garden is great. It’s really important that your voles have a balanced diet. 🙄 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton @nprofile…acpk we do get bunnies but I’m pretty sure it’s not them this time. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton @nprofile…acpk except the peas were in a rabbit proof bed. Supposedly anyway. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Something has nipped the tops off all my peas 😭 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A foreboding sky on my walk earlier but thankfully no rain. Well, not over me anyway. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton TIL that a collective noun for snails is an escargatoire 🐌 🐌 🐌 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton A beautiful demoiselle for #InsectSaturday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #FootpathFriday from the Côte d’Emeraude, Brittany. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #FensterFreitag npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday #BloomScrolling npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton The neighbours sheep were being shorn this evening so I popped over and helped bag up fleece. My hands feel nicely conditioned now! npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Me too Mrs Blackbird, me too. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday #BloomScrollingWithABee npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #FootpathFriday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #FensterFreitag npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton The very fragrant oleaster and philadelphus are in bloom. It’s a heady mix. The bees are most pleased. 🐝 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #sewing #mending fedi help please 🙏. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I am curious to see where our hedgehogs go on their trundlings and suspected they were coming and going under the fence into the neighbours’ field so set up my camera. There are SO many comings and goings. Some make more of a meal of it than others (for some reason they’re not using a bigger hole that the pheasants use 🤷♀️). Anyway I’ve stitched 3 videos taken over a space of 6 minutes. Hard to be sure but I think two different hogs - one in then another out and back in…maybe. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I think I might be getting my sourdough mojo back. I’d lost it for a while. The loaf may look a bit anemic but was baked through and the crust good and cronchy! npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Sad to see such destruction and that it wasn’t prevented earlier (especially as it is National Trust land (tenanted but even so)) though hopefully the penalty will be a warning to others. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’ve been to the plant nursery with the adorable floofy assistants. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Please take a moment to enjoy watching a hedgehog drinking (and sneezing) to the accompaniment of the dawn chorus this morning. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday #Moostodon npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #BloomScrolling npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #BloomScrollingWithABee a common carder bee I think. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I guess I can cast my clouts now, though it’s still on the chilly side. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Advice needed. I plan to use 2l water bottles to slowly water my tomato plants. There are various methods inc. tubing and aquarium stuff but I’m going for the simple one of planting the bottle upside down with tiny holes in the lid (base cut off). First I made 4 tiny holes as per instructions but I’ve had slower showers tbh. Way too fast. 2nd go had 1 tiny hole (1.5mm), tights fabric over lid. Slower but emptied overnight. Is that about right, any ideas? Thanks 🙏 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I tooted a week or so ago a pic of what I thought was my last apple tree to bloom. But I’d forgotten about this one. Mère de ménage which produces an apple perfect for the classic Apple Charlotte dessert. Chap who came to help prune was amazed the tree was still standing, let alone alive. It leans at an impossible angle and the trunk is more dead wood than live. It had a gentle prune to remove dead weight and it seems so much better for it. The bees appreciate it too 🐝💚. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #WaterfallWednesday from a misty Monday. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Lambs in the mist npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I can never get a decent photo of a greater whitethroat. They always perch so they’re backlit when I see them (fog doesn’t help). Still, a distinctive silhouette. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I’m now above the fog. Not sure how long for. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton It was lovely and sunny when I started my walk at the coast this morning. Then fog rolled in. A walk inland through beautiful wooded valleys full of wildflowers and birds (heard cuckoos and greater whitethroat) though one slightly creepy path through farmland. Thought the fog might lift when I got back to the coast but nope! Finishing off on a bit of coast path so there’s still time. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton #SilentSunday npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton I will be removing seed feeders in May but lovely to see a pair of siskins on the sunflower hearts today. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton More #BloomScrolling in the golden hour. npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton The last (and the best) of my apple trees to bloom bloomed today! Bloomin’ marvellous 🌸 npub15ss3xwn8dyrx7wjg6wpfwfrjwuq8ryykxkpdcy8694wssl78u5uqftv283 Helen Clayton Just a lil squirrel snoozing in the sun.
