David

A frog rests in a garden pond which has a surface sprinkled with pondweed. The frog was sheltering from me, and keeping cool on a day which was for once hot and sunny.

The weather warmed up just at the right time for buddleias to flower in profusion this year. Sadly, there have been virtually no butterflies around to take advantage of this abundance on the butterfly bushes. The long term decline because of the various ways the environment is being degraded has been heightened by this year’s mainly cold and wet weather. The same for bees.

So I decided to picture a buddleia flower from a different angle (literally). So here’s an end-on view.

This insect, and not any kind of bird, is the creature responsible for the gobs of froth, so-called cuckoo spit, which appears towards the tops of plants around this time of year.

Small dusty wave, a tiny but apparently quite common moth. This one had taken shelter on a day with bursts of heavy rainfall.

On the roof of one of the shops in Bridgnorth’s Low Town, stonecrop thriving in the guttering.

East Castle Street in Bridgnorth has some showcase front gardens. These poppies were growing on the pavement in front of one of the houses which doesn’t have a front garden, escapees.