From the woods

A dry day today, but I've been around most of the time as I was expecting my zoom lens back from repair and they said that it wouldn't be left in the 'safe place'. It hasn't come, not by 4.30 anyway!

Carried on with some London pictures this morning, or rather with the write-up. This goes on for ever! It's always slightly annoying to find now that I've passed interesting places without knowing that they were there! Being rather pestered today by what I call post-Covid woolliness - does anyone else suffer from this? It comes and goes with no apparent reason and really saps enthusiasm! 

After lunch I climbed up on the bank above the house to cut the grass and remove the many tree and shrub seedlings that have appeared, some with the help of the squirrels no doubt! There are many hebes naturalised in this area so they're constantly coming up and have to be removed, pretty though they can be. Unfortunately having climbed up I discovered that my shears needed sharpening, so climbed down again and hunted through my tool boxes for my file, without success. So I climbed up again with a pair of scissors, which although sounding daft, meant that at least I could hang on to something  with one hand! 

My Blip today is a variety of the South American Fuchsia  magellanica 'Logan Woods'. The species itself is most commonly seen, naturalised in many parts of western Scotland, and is generally red, though there is a pale pink variety. 'Logan Woods' is a more attractive cultivar and is very easy to grow and flower. I'll probably plant it out when it grows too big for its pot.