#ThrowbackThursday - Hydrangeas turning russet ahead of Autumn: - On road explored in August, I first thought different breed/soil pH. - Besides our house, previously blue: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Next door recently & ... - June before full bloom. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 155

Hilarious SMS from @VirginMedia this morning (no email received) to tell me how reliable they are..! When I've been monitoring a dozen or so annoying little internet drop-outs per day. Can't cope with their support-hell after Herculean effort for compensation of 2 week outage.

5 Month-iversary of DailyNaturePics (154)! I'm spoiled for pretty sights. But I kind of wish I could transport you all to this understated wood, for that tree-bathing feel wondering the warren of little paths. #MEcfsEgress See [ALT]s. Water mint. Blackberries? #BloomScrolling

1/ #Timelapse Tuesday - I caught our penultimate rainbow (no 6) on phone time-lapse mode (and sped it up more)... Ironically having to bring in my SLR from shooting the fluffy clouds from the roof when the rain blew through. Better in portrait! #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 153

I've been on successive day 30min bike rides exploring side roads & alleys I've not been for decades, or ever! Without leg pain/PEM.😶 Here, across the main road, down the dip: - Gazania - Chinese-Plumbago - Between-road treetops #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 152

Shallow (AKA soft) Focus Sunday: - What could be softer than fluffy bird feathers..? - Maybe dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) seed heads? Photos from early May. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 151

Scruffy Saturday - photos from May where the subject 'got out the wrong side of bed'; I was thinking of running an "ugliest flower poll" for some of them.😅 - Scarlet Avens (or Geum?) - Welsh poppy - Wallflower #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 150

#FruitFriday: - Rugosa rose: a few doors up & at a kid's playground. - "Hips": their (odd) fruits can be used for rosehip supplements (high vit-C)?! - Blackberries: best few I've spotted. - Snowberries: toxic, invasive (American). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 149

#ThrowbackThursday - our back garden in April: - Overgrown broken pot. Mmm, rustic. - Sea campion(?) dense leafy pot (died in summer). - Veronica of slab-gap city. - Mexican Orange Blossom? Later, in profile pic background. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 148

#WildlifeWednesday: down to the little dudes, almost unseen! - Love the energy of this Miridae nymph/Rose aphid(?) commanding a St John's Wart. - Parasitic wasp (Ichneumon?), ovipositor needle-butt, on a Michaelmas leaf. - Spot the lavender ant! #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 147

#RoseTuesday: a bit of a photo clearout! Phone pics from all around our neighborhood, from June to August. As per usual, it's hard to identify exact cultivars/hybrids. So there's just visual descriptions from Gemini in the ALTs. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 146

1/2 Big moody skies! On Thursday, Autumn Wanderlust took me, on bike, a very slow & flat 2 miles(!) to our local crematorium grounds. Which I've never managed to visit before. Miraculously dodging rain. Fantastic view of open countryside... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 145

1/2 Shallow Focus Sunday - from next door with my SLR the other day: - Ajuga reptans (Bugleweed) - Penstemon barbatus (Beard-Tongue): better than previous phone pic. - Clematis seed heads?: PlantNet hasn't a clue. Oddly pretty. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 144

Butterfly stonecrop, Orpine or (Mum says) Sedum: knee-high plants dotted all over our and other gardens. I've been watching many weeks for them to bloom. Our friends' sunny corner house (pictured with bees) was first. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 143

#FruitFriday: Next door's garden is dominated by 2 large apple trees. I hear "thunk!" noises in the evening as they drop. With no one there, Mum started clearing some up, while around. We have some cordons & a small tree; green cluster mid July. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 142

#ThrowbackThursday - front garden flowers in June: - Geraniums (Horseshoe/scarlet) - Midnight Clematis, few houses have a trellis right up front like this. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 141

1/2 Wet Wednesday: English summer #rain slo-mo videos. Just playing with my phone while frustrated for any place to sit (outside). #MEcfsEgress #DailyNaturePics 140

#RoseTuesday - popped next door with mum to help sort the side of our shed, before the new young family move in, took SLR… New blooms budding on dead looking plants (Wichura's?) and burned up looking blooms others still verdant. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 139

Cloud cover looked tantalisingly viable for a #LunarEclipse shot, yesterday evening… Biked for open space with interesting/new foreground subjects. Explored 3 miles. Saw open countryside… No glimpse of moon until home & cooking. More in [ALT]. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 138

Shallow Focus Sunday - blooms in the canopy of our little Sweet mock orange tree, one June evening. SLR shots, on my old Nikon D5100, of course. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 137

Scruffy Saturday - neighbourhood flowers tired of summer: - Blanket flowers: like a planted bouquet! - Another variety, alone, elsewhere. - Michaelmas-daisys purple in the boarder... 🎵🎶 - Abelia & bee (rarely seen & dopey). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 136

#FruitFriday with… "Oregon grapes"?! Low-slung shrubs growing all around our house and next door. I thought some kind of holly, from the leaves & small berries. Oh, aka Mahonia aquifolium, winter blooming? Ops. Unripe shot May. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 135

#ThrowbackThursday - is June far enough back? On my walks (PlantNet IDs): - Alpine delphinium - Veronica salicifolia (Koromiko): tall bush. - Campanula garganica (Adriatic bellflower): a whole shady front garden boarder with these! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 134

1/2 #WildlifeWednesday at our bird bath with... - The fluffy-wuffest dopey juvenile(?) Bluetit. Just stat there with it's head tucked for 30 seconds. - Collared dove, rare sight here, all alone. - Hedge sparrow, malting. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 133

Rose Tuesday! Winding back in time: - Lady Banks (Rosa banksiae): from next door, behind our shed (August). - Climbing rose: a dense front garden shrub, a road over (July). - Damask rose: all alone, up our road (May). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 132

Rainbow season has me restless... Also having musty parosmia overnight in my 1 previously safe room… - Ivy covered cedar/cypress bow (front garden mini-forest). - I literally got in amongst the bulrushes/cat-tails (Typha latifolia, drainage pond. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 131

Shallow focus Sunday - in our hanging baskets: - Garden Pansies: early May. - Smallflower hairy willowherb: gangly weed I've also seen about. - Hybrid Pelargonium (Geranium): reprise. - Ornamental Bacopa: again, looking dreamy. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 130

Yesterday, I went for a casual bike between rain showers. Found myself at old pond in 'new' development... ... Then, on the flat smooth tarmac, out the other side. Looped a total of 2.5 miles! More context, plant names in [ALT]. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 129

1/2 I got a little overexcited about the most vivid rainbow I've seen in years; whipped out my SLR! A double rainbow, in fact. Zoomed in, you can even see the reverse colours below the violet. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 128

Chinese/Japanese lanterns (Physalis alkekengi): up in our garden boarder, (adjacent to the bluebells, long gone). Leaves currently wilted from lack of rain. And from May last year, their skeletal remains with little fruits inside. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 127

1/6 #WildlifeWednesday special thread!: - Webs (spider-free) - Flies - Spiders (cute then scary all blurred as sensitive content for arachnophobes). Sun beam lights up an iridescent double web between lichen encrusted monkey puzzle branches. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 126

Rose Tuesday! Slowly combing the neighbourhood by bike, I feel roses are doing the best in this dry summer. Plantnet IDs were quite uncertain, best guesses in image [ALT] text, except the last (group of 3): Rosa moschata Herrm. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 125

Sunny bank holiday Monday, venturing further down our estate. Pedalling back up slower than walking pace, I passed, for the first time in a decade, a lovely little front garden with these Snowdrop Anemone (Anemonoides sylvestris). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 124

DailyNaturePics 123: a 4 month special mini-thread with our huge artichokes (Cynara cardunculus, AKA cardoon)! - Plants so tall they reach into space?! - Continually abuzz during the day (ambient video below)! - Hard to get a bee-butt-free shot! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling 1/3

Eryngium spinalba(?): an odd plant that I walked past every day, but never spotted looking more alive than this..? ... Vs definitely dead and dried up globe thistle and lavender. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 122

Return to the far side of our estate where my sneaky Dahlia phone photos had been interrupted: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Sunflower (Helianthus annuus): 'wild' in the cut-through path beside. - Dahlia (pinnata) varieties, all 3?! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 121

DailyNaturePics 120 - a line in the sand (excuse for cut flowers)... Another: parent's Emerald wedding anniversary, earlier this year (bouquet, then whites white chrysanthemum). Earlier still, Birthday flowers with Google Home (where my posted photos also live). #BloomScrolling

1/2 #WildlifeWednesday - Just about; late night edition with our moth collection!: - Common grass-veneer: on a blind slat, in nice detail. - Morning-glory plume moth: nailed that T pose. - Orange swift: can jam bat echolocation using ultrasound! #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 119

1/2 #TreeTuesday - an ode to an old oak (Quercus robur). On the house corner-boundary at the end of our garden, who knows how many (hundred) years it quietly sat there before my parents arrived in the late 60s... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 118

Without obvious PEM or muscle pain, I expanded my gentle bike ride right around our estate perimeter, finding new flower variants!: - Dahlia pinnata? - Calendula stellata. - Cosmos bipinnatus. (& bee!) - Long Smooth-headed Poppy. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 117

Shallow Focus Sunday: - St John's-wort (Hypericum), apparently?! An unassuming chest high shrub that's been chilling in a shady spot near the top of our garden for as long as I remember. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 116

1/2 Red-hot-poker (Kniphofia uvaria), unglamorous just after sunset, yesterday at a retail park. A stream runs through the middle. Far from picturesque, but the first watercourse I've gazed on for years. Ambient video below... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 115

Pretty little weeds in many grass verges here. PlantNet calls the white ones "Sneezewort". Gemini thinks them all "Yarrow"..? Google: environmental factors might affect colour, as well as generic variants. "Achillea" regardless. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 114

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Yesterday's restless bike diversion into a cul-de-sac: - Echinacea angustifolia (Purple coneflower): another herbal supplement that's also decorative! - Helianthus (? Perennial Sunflower): round the corner, up against a fence. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 113

Spot the hoverfly! #WildlifeWednesday - Spiked speedwell (Veronica spicata). - Annual mallow (Malva trimestris): one perfect bloom on a gnarly mess of plant. - Dandelions (shrug) with a pretty Ladybird. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 112

Not many flowers about our Hospital yesterday (big blood test draw), but: - Great Bindweed: around stream to car park, mediocre but nettled my hand taking it! - Giant Sequoia?!: apparently introduced to UK since 1850s & grow fast. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 111

Dahlia pinnata looming over Rudbeckia fulgida (Black-eyed Susan), a couple streets over and a week back. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 110

Bright red beauties freshly download from my SLR! #ShallowFocusSunday - Pelargonium hybrid (or Geraniums?): blooms have been improving over the weeks. - Begonia, in a ground pot, kinda beats last Sunday's hanging basket bloom irl. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 109

Back on my bike (gentler on new found plantar fasciitis/neuropathy), I returned to the housing development today... Pappus thick atop Field thistle stuffed ditches. Some braving a dessert grass-scape. Elsewhere, hawthorns fruit. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 108