Potfest in the Park

A really pleasant wander round Potfest .... I could have spent a lot of money! ....and then, on the way home a woodland walk with Broad-leaved Helleborines and Ceps.

On the way home ....Broad-leaved Helleborine..

..and Ceps...

Purple Iris fused glass

You may be familiar with my single Irises that I make and place in the flowerbeds ..this was another step up! Although they will end up outside, at the moment they are in the kitchen - nice and safe and out of the wind ...thanks once again to Roxy at RD Glass for letting me use her studio! 

My first Irises.

A more ambitious piece, before firing ...

After firing ...

In detail ...

In the window the light is from outside, so the detail doesn't show so well...

Outside the colours really show ...

Detail...

Arthur's Pike; Bonscale Pike; Loadpot Hill and Wether Hill

We'd only intended on doing Arthur's Pike and Bonscale Pike .....but being as we were there ....

Loadpot and Wether Hill weren't great last time we were up there - in the mist - and it wasn't a lot better this time! 

We started by going up Arthur's Pike - then along the ridge to Loadpot ....down the dip and onto Wether Hill where we, again, searched for the summit. We knew it was marked by four stones - we found one and noticed that there were three barren little dips where the stones had been removed and put on the nearby, slightly lower, cairn. Then back down and over to Bonscale fell before returning to Arthur's Pike and across to the High Street Path before returning to the stone circle and back to the parking above Helton. A fabulous view of a Merlin taking a Meadow Pipit and plentiful Bilberries and Horse Mushrooms added to our return journey. 

The stone circle.

Looking up Ullswater. 

Cross-leaved Heath - a splash of colour ...

It was misty - moisty! 

Rocky on the side of Loadpot Hill - not the top ...

Happy dog! 

Wood Tiger Moth.

Plentiful Bilberries. 

Golden- ringed Dragonfly.

A solitary stone on the way back ...

In celebration of Bilberries

 It's that time of year again ... and another bumper harvest in the Northern Fells of Cumbria.

In the field ... the berry combs make a tremendous difference ...

Tidied up and ready to eat! 

General views...

Cross-leaved Heath; Bell Heather and Ling. 

Northern Eggar caterpillar. 

Ripening Cranberries. 

Heaath-spotted Orchids. 

Small Skipper. 

Juniper. 

Small Scabious

 Some more photographs from Maryport of the Small Scabious...

Maryport flowers

  After buying fish from the Chelaris we walked out to the lighthouse ...

After the recent rain the dune slacks have really greened up. 

The Yellow- rattle is well over. 

Fleabane. 

The most spectacular flowers were adjacent to the road to the lighthouse...

Good to see seven Small Blues ..second generation. 

Small Skipper. 

Lots of small scabious - deserving of its own blog! 

The roadside. 

Small Scabious and Wild Carrot. 

Wild Carrot.