Field Flowers

I went out looking for fungi in the wood at the back of us – climbed over the fence, jumped over the stream and clambered about among fallen old trees and little young saplings. I found a couple of little toadstools

The moss is Polytrichum commune – very common around here

and some hard fern, some heather, and a tiny oak tree growing out of the root ball of a fallen tree.

By this time I'd acquired a new collection of midge bites and decided to go back into the massive, open, midge-free field and follow some deer tracks. Heading away from oor hoos at the Boggy Brae,

the first thing I came across that I've never seen before was dock leaves eaten up between their veins:

Then I came across various lovely wild flowers and realised where the Devil's Bit Scabious in my garden comes from

Devil's Bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis) and soft rush

Devil's bit Scabious

Sneezwort (Achillea ptarmica)

Wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris)

Thistledown of Creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense)

The lovely colours of ripe dock seed against bracken

Along the top of the field the rowan trees were looking good:

The field dips away at the far end so, without climbing onto a fence post or up a tree, this  is all you can see of  Boggy Braedom from there:

At the far end there are larch trees

A curtain of larch with rowan behind

larch cones and 'larch lumps' of leaves
(spruce some singly, pine comes in pairs, and
larch comes in larch lumps ;-)

And then I was homeward bound, just as the smirr began to feel a bit damp, so the camera went in the rucksack