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Along the hedges, not quite
all is harvested, a bumper crop here of elderberries awaiting
the thrushes or a keen home winemaker.
And a reminder that Christmas
is on its way and coming into conscious notice ...
... but bizarrely a very
late flowering of Cow Parsley also showing.
Fortunately on the other
side of the fence, but not really interested in me ...
... with such a bunch of
young female charm to attend to.
A strange place to put a
dustbin? Not if it is a dispenser of feed to farmed pheasants
'released' into the wild but kept on the farm by the easy feeding
and ready to be driven to fly over the shooting positions. Not
only pheasant but partridge too were plentiful on my walk - shooting
not yet in full swing then!
Behind the hedge, serenity
beyond the lawn: Whirley Hall.
Heading back, now. Glimpsing
through a gateway the view across to Kerridge with the dot of
White Nancy centred just below the horizon.
Fiddling about trying to
compose interesting pix of back-lit leaves the owner of the trees
engaged me in conversation and invited me into his garden extension
being developed as a private arboretum.
Hops, something of an unusual
plant hereabouts ...
... but young trees do not
yet have stature and form and the best looking one was this old
oak in the hedge.
Time was pressing as the
sun sank lower and it was time to head home and leave the Edge
for another time.
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