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Spring 2000 at Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England

More English Wild Flowers, Preening Swan, Ducks and Ducklins - 16th June 2000

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Sequence of Events

Images

Description

Not much true night time, dawn is approaching Moonscape over Runcorn

  1. Not much true night time, dawn is approaching
  2. Moonscape over Runcorn

Moonscape over Runcorn

  1. Moonscape over Runcorn

Moonscape over Runcorn Dawn getting closer

  1. Moonscape over Runcorn
  2. Dawn getting closer

Moonscape over Runcorn Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg)

  1. Moonscape over Runcorn
  2. Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg)

Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg) Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg)

  1. Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg)
  2. Broad-leaved Willowherb (Epilobium montanum agg)

Charlock (Sinapis arvensis) Charlock (Sinapis arvensis)

  1. Charlock (Sinapis arvensis) (Thanks to Jon Charnock for pointing out a typo in spelling of this - 12th June 2001)
  2. Charlock (Sinapis arvensis) (Thanks to Jon Charnock for pointing out a typo in spelling of this - 12th June 2001)

Charnock (Sinapis arvensis) Daisy (Bellis perennis)

  1. Charnock (Sinapis arvensis)
  2. Daisy (Bellis perennis)

Daisy (Bellis perennis) Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

  1. Daisy (Bellis perennis)
  2. Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)

Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus) Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata)

  1. Smooth Sow-thistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
  2. Scentless Mayweed (Matricaria perforata)

Red Campion (Silene dioica) Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)

  1. Red Campion (Silene dioica)
  2. Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)

Herb-Robert (Geranium robertianum) Wood Aven/Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum)

  1. Herb-Robert (Geranium robertianum)
  2. Wood Aven/Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum)

Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris) Duck and ducklings

  1. Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
  2. Duck and ducklings

Mute swan preening itself Mute swan preening itself

  1. Mute swan preening itself
  2. Mute swan preening itself

Duck and ducklings Maybe Hemlock (Conium maculatum)

  1. Duck and ducklings
  2. Maybe Hemlock (Conium maculatum)

Red Clover (trefolium repens) Common Catsear (Hypochaeris radicata)

  1. Red Clover (trefolium repens)
  2. Common Catsear (Hypochaeris radicata)

Bramble/Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus agg) Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

  1. Bramble/Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus agg)
  2. Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

  1. Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
  2. Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)

Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) Daisy (Bellis perennis)

  1. Common Bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
  2. Daisy (Bellis perennis)

Daisy (Bellis perennis) Daisy (Bellis perennis)

  1. Daisy (Bellis perennis)
  2. Daisy (Bellis perennis)

Cuckoo Flowers (Cardamine pratensis agg) Unsure - part of the carrot family

  1. Cuckoo Flowers (Cardamine pratensis agg)
  2. Unsure - part of the carrot family

Unsure - part of the carrot family Unsure - part of the carrot family

  1. Unsure - part of the carrot family
  2. Unsure - part of the carrot family

1915 (Robert Graves)

"I'VE watched the Seasons passing slow, so slow,
In the fields between La Bassée and Bethune;
Primroses and the first warm day of Spring,
Red poppy floods of June,
August, and yellowing Autumn, so
To Winter nights knee-deep in mud or snow,
And you've been everything.

Dear, you've been everything that I most lack
In these soul-deadening trenches--pictures, books,
Music, the quiet of an English wood,
Beautiful comrade-looks,
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track,
The broad, full-bosomed ocean, green and black,
And Peace, and all that's good."

(Refer: ALCS -
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society:
http://www.alcs.co.uk)
 

This England

"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
 This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
 This other Eden, demi-paradise,
 This fortress built by Nature for herself
 Against infection and the hand of war,
 This happy breed of men, this little world,
 This precious stone set in the silver sea...
 This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."


 William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, 
 Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1 
 (JOHN OF GAUNT (Duke of Lancaster) speaks)

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