Sunday 4 March 2012

DofE, Haiku 37, Found at last!

Yesterday was the DofE training day in the Brecons, a chance to show the girls some hills. It's a long way for 5 or 6 hours walking, but most times enjoyable. After a long gap another Haiku sprouted, in good haiku fashion from the conditions at the time. it was as you can see, near freezing with 50mph+ gales, enough that we had to divert off the path which was a bit close to the edge of Pen Y Van & Cribyn. The girls walked clinging to each other laughing outrageously each time they were blown over, but not a single whinge, so this one's for them!

37
needlesharp gailhale
fingerburning aftercold
hotchocolatedream


Last May WWA went to bag some munros, I photographed several unidentified flowers, one I found was the creeping azalea. I stumbled on a not-very-precise drawing that could have been one of the white ones in Richard Mabey's "Food For Free" ukwildflowers confirms that it's Cornus suecica, the  Eurasian Dwarf Cornel. It dosen't seem to be very common, so pleasing to have found and eventually identified it.
Here's a reminder,

                           


and the last unidentified one.


 Any ideas?


2 comments:

  1. Could it be the Trientalis europae? Very rare!!

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  2. Brilliant, I'm sure that's right according to the website above, thanks Barbara!

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