Moods and Flowers

Colder these last few days, cold enough to relight the woodburner in the hall.  We have had torrential rain and then sunshine, and the grass needs looking at.  The wild flowers along the bank are changing all the time, dandelions giving way to buttercups and now hawkweed, fiery orange-red flowers on shaggy stems.  White foxgloves in the garden, the allium is flowering, the lithodorum, the aquilegias.  We have a lot of flowers but they are spread out and not in beds or borders as clumps.  There are a lot of small purple wild flowers as well that I haven't identified.  

Cold days in summer are a strange thing, more common than I expect and every time it takes me by surprise.  The rooms have a chill to them, and short sleeves are out for the moment.