Brenda🥕R

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Sat on a blether bench. Living in South Lakes. Happiest outside, walking, gawping, talking. Little knowledge loads of curiosity.

Close-up of possibly a female black darter gripping a slender green reed. Top right corner a seed head mirrors the colour of the dragonfly
At the top of a flower spike are a pair of bright pink two-lipped flowers.
Red admiral head tilted back and antennae pointed forward, and proboscis extended upwards, the butterfly looks hilariously aristocratic.
A close-up of a pale pink double antirrhinum spike. Each flower has a pale yellow centre.
Volucella bombylans, a harmless hoverfly evolved to look like a stinging bumblebee to deter predators
A buddleia bush lying on the lawn
Common blue butterflies mating on a fern leaf
Close-up of a moth wing, possibly a small emerald, on tarmac.
A rusted and non-functional gate latch
A no mow area in my garden; long grasses and wildflowers
Gale force winds on the north coast of Scotland. Huge waves crash over a pier. There is a metal gate in the right corner.
A narrow path through woodland above Loch Alsh. The dappled sunlight casts the shadows of slim birch trunks on the path leading to a rustic gate.
A common frog on a tarmac path
A large area of yellow azelea at Leckmelm arboretum.
A tall flower spike of loosely separated green white flowers amongst tall grasses and daisies.
From the path above Sgalpaidh looking along the Kyle of Lochalsh towards Kyleakin.
The closed buds of a greater butterfly orchid among daisies and cowslips
A purple orchid in growing in my lawn.
A wooden milk churn style bridge over a stream leads to a drystone wall stile.
It is blue sky tiny faint white clouds day. In the foreground is the round pillar of Thornhill Trig point. The sound of Mull is in the background.
Cooking on a wooden picnic bench with Loch Maree and Slioch in the background
A stile over a deer fence on the Assynt coast looking north towards a point
My leggins encased in thick stinky bog mud
180° from the top of Meall Mor, Rhue
Rhue lighthouse and the sea beyond from Meall Mór
Looking down the road alongside Little Loch Broom
Sitting on a boulder in a narrow river gorge. The camera looks over my crossed feet at river, boulders and over hanging trees.
A solar halo above the silhouette of a rock
My walking pole has sunk worryingly deep into an area of soft moss. Luckily not wet
My crossed feet and an erratic boulder in the foreground Toridon and Fisherfield hills in the background
A colourful sunset on the coast of Wester Ross
A Wester Ross coastal scene. A rainbow is reflected on the sea.
Wester Ross coastal scene. Double rainbow seems to emerge from the sea
A panoramic video from a rocky hill above Mellon Udrigle
A peachy coloured frog scampers to a similar patch of lichen on a stone.
A seagull flying across a calm Scottish loch. It's a grey day with low cloud over hills in the background.
A blue sky day on a hillpath above Loch Alsh. My crossed feet in some shade created by turning an umbrella and walking poles into a sunshade. Genius, IMO.
From the hills above Loch Alsh: blue sea, a stile and a blue sky with a small faint white cloud
A McLaren Senna with Gulf Oil racing livery . Registration Ayrton Senna's name and birth year) I had to search all that info. Just think 2 minutes and I could have missed it!
As the sunsets leaving the top of a Scottish hillside golden an almost full moon rises.
Looking across Loch Linnhe from Sròn a' Gharbh Choire Bhig.