Checking out the Garden

This morning is warm and the sky is clear.  The pond is looking good and is teeming with life.

This damselfly is resting at the pond, ready for its next hunt.

The pond water is clear and the newts are active.  I am seldom able to photograph a newt with its shadow showing on the bottom of the pond.

Ah! a snack.  This newt is about to take a fly from the waters surface.

Two Great Mullein plants have grown in one of the top garden raised beds.  They are so unusual in this area that I have let them grow on in the hope that they will produce flower spikes later in the year.  That will be something to look up to!

Most of the flowers are bright and firm, though I suspect that they will start to suffer later when the ground water level drops in the long term heat of the week.

 

Not in the garden, but at a local reservoir, there are lots of young rabbits. These animals are not as numerous as they were in the 1960's when I was a youngster myself.