Beauty

It doesn't matter that we've now seen hundreds of six-spot burnet moths and even more orchids, their beauty, and the joy of finding them, never seems to fade.

With some things, like these 'uncommon' blues, although we've seen them so often over the years, their colour continues to stun the senses, and when, as on our walk today, they're out in abundance, they're like flying jewels, flying aquamarines.

Some things seem so dull, but then....

....they show their other side, and the surprise takes one's breath away.

So often the delicate beauty of a creature is enhanced by their proximity to the mess we make. This is a skylark, which has, for months, serenaded us with its song.

Again, today, as we crossed the golf course we were wading through a meadow of bright colours, in stark contrast to the mown fairway where all that survives is grass and daisies.

Mrs MW had gone off to see if she could find a different orchid but instead came across....

....something else which doesn't look particularly beautiful but which is another of nature's amazing adaptations. It's called a dune cup fungus, and it may be Peziza ammophilia, which translates as 'the Piziza which likes sand' because it is capable of surviving on bare, coastal dunes.

We are so, so fortunate to live in a place surrounded by these riches.