May’s discoveries
2026.05.27 An invitation to visit my world …
I’m Digital Wanderings - Modern Life - Edifice
Spring has truly arrived, in the countryside as well and town gardens.
This photograph was taken besides the millstream, wild plants growing besides and in the stream, known as marginal plants.
Love in the Mist - Nigella - self seeded, growing in gravel along a country lane.
Heuchera and fern shadows on a plastered exterior wall. The building is medieval, plaster on branches or wattle and daub was used to make the walls water and draft proof. Patterns on the plasterwork started appearing from the 17th Century onwards.
A different colour way - French Marigold.
An early bumblebee visiting a ground covering Cotoneaster.
A male branded damselfly.
A spring view of my local river
I have always associated the red annual poppy with remembrance, the poem below was written after I remembered something my grandfather said. He parachuted into the Netherlands in WW2.
This was originally a Haiku, and grew, but I continued with that style.
September 1944
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Falling from the sky,
Is this autumn day I die?
A parachutist
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Battle below, noise
Machine guns blazing, horror
Hell below my feet
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Another leaf, falls
Like fragile poppies, blood red
Parachutists, dead.
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A photo - grandad
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Standing upright by the door,
Emerald green,
An unlikely steward …
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Five feet six inches tall,
Red Devils beret in hand,
Buffing the winged insignia …
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Breath vapour,
A cold drab day,
Coventry. Nightfall.
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The wild flag Iris
down by the lake - goslings & swans
On of nature’s architecture wonders an ornamental Allium flower
The buttercup meadow has been a lovely place to sit, enjoy, ponder and meditate.
And a digital reimagining…
A Holly blue butterfly visiting a cranesbill.
Shrub Rose Canary Bird
A very big thank you for your continued support of my corner on Substack and for joining me on my daily wanderings.
@Margaret Fleck I really appreciate your restack of this photograph. Thank you
@Kathryn Benander I really appreciate your restack, thank you