Of meadows and flowers

Today we're moving more at fauna and flora in exploring that area and we'll start here with this restful meadow with clovers which I loved.

Things that grow along the edges and hedges of paths can be easily missed by an eye that's trained just on looking ahead but this was really colourful, attracting butterflies and bees.

Wild flowers in the wild are more my thing than cultivated and planted in groups but these seemed to have found each other on a grass verge overlooking the canal towpath.

This was impressive and not to creased from being blown about. I used the telezoon end of the lens to help throw the background out a little while remembering to lock the focus on the flower.
I prefer manual focusing for tasks like this.

There was much to see and more importantly the walk itself was calming for seeing open countryside, meadowland and flowers that I forgot about time altogether while out.