Wolves Wild

Dandelions growing close together like a miniature forest in a front garden I noticed in passing.

Ground ivy is not actually related to ivy. It’s a hedgerow plant with leaves supposedly a little like those of the climbing plant, though I don’t see much similarity.

Instead, it’s a dead nettle, a group of plants which aren’t actually nettles, but get their name because they look a bit like nettles. Are you confused enough yet?

Hawthorn flowers also known as may blossom, so the bushes should be covered with it about now.

View from a footbridge over the river Worfe (just visible in the foreground) towards an old mill and its millpond.

Rindleford is the last settlement on the Worfe before it joins the Severn near Bridgnorth. Originally a hamlet for millers and farmers: several of the buildings, constructed from stone quarried nearby, now seem to have undergone barn-conversion type transformation to up-market housing.

Pink cherry blossom on a tree in Bantock Park, seen against a blue spring sky.

This female orange tip butterfly was just yards away from the male featured in a post yesterday. For me, proximity to one or more males is the easy way of telling the female from one of the whites.

I think that the green tinge shown on the underwing here is because it is being lit by light reflected off the leaves – the darker green pattern normally shows against a white background.