Inspired by barewirewalkers dandelions, (and as DevonDave said we're probably all getting board with bluebells) I took my camera for a long walk and took a few photos of the different wild flowers that are now appearing in the countryside around my local area.
Thought I would put said dandelion up
. Most impressed with the superb pictures of flora that this humble offering has sparked off. Perhaps the least appreciated aspect of walking and worthy of a topic of it's own. I think that anyone interested in taking photos such as these may well have committed the heinous sin of stepping off the righteous way. I know of a bed of orchids in a wood that can be seen from the RoW but to take a close up the walker would have to stray more than the 5m allowed to avoid an obstruction.
Of course a little trespass such as this is rarely seen by the person who might take offence and so no damage done
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Should you see a tree and want to get the light behind it, how far might you have wander? It is such little observations as this which show up the inherent common sense within the 2003 Scottish Land Reform Act, when compared to the rigidity of only being allowed access by RoW.
I know there are members, who know of farmers, who are sufficiently civilized to share this aspect of our countyside but when you wonder why there are others who do not, you might, like me, think it is due to the anti-access poison that is being trumpeted abroad by the CLA.
On a happier note, lets not forget the humble fungi.
and safely taken in Scotland