Big Butterfly Count

I'm doing my best with my still very sick right leg to get back to some walking, so today, with the Big Butterfly Count in mind, I managed to follow the track up towards the forestry for about half a mile, the spur being a hope that, somewhere, I might catch a glimpse of that rarest of insects, a butterfly.

In the event, having walked all the way up to the gate and back again, it was only as I approached the house that I spotted one, a meadow brown which, seeing me, landed as close at it dared, stretched out its wings, and said, "Photograph me!"