A walk on the wild side

KG had badminton this morning and he dropped me off at the sports centre a bit earlier than I needed to be - I was to meet him back there at 10 with my bit of shopping.  As (mostly) always I had my camera but with only the 14-42 lens on.  I walk from the sports centre to Tesco quite often but stopped to take in the wild flowers etc around this morning.  The little red leaves were my first spot and I loved the colour but have no idea what they are.  Next I spotted the long grasses and decided that having done a slow shutter speed that would be my background - then a blackberry flower and finally the sycamore keys.  I picked a bunch of these for KG as he wants to do something creative with them.  I also found some purple flowers that the bees were buzzing around but unfortunately couldn't get a good shot. I was just about finishing my photographing and off to Tesco when this gentleman asked me what I was taking.  I told him the bees and we had quite a long chat - it turned out he was 80 but didn't look it - had done lots of travelling he said he had visited 50 countries and gone on 16 cruises.  He doesn't do digital photography but told me he had a Leica and various other expensive cameras.  A fascinating gentleman. After a quick whip round Tesco I arrived back at the car park just before KG came out. 

The leak is fixed now  which is great.
Weather dull cool start but sunny again this afternoon