Justsmudge

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Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆

Red Admiral butterfly 🦋 in the scrub on the edge of woodland Birdlip, Gloucestershire
Not a true flower at all.. but a rose gall often tied to Robin Goodfellow (also known as Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream) or Robin Hood. In English herbal medicine, the gall was dried, ground up, or hung around the neck as a folk remedy to treat whooping cough or toothaches. As to whether it worked 🤔
Bumble bee on a large red poppy head. Exemplars of matriarchal decentralised democratic government
Gatekeeper butterfly, wings closed on a partially eaten bright green cherry tree leaf
Yarrow - millefolium, white heads in summer sun
Bright red crocosima in the morning sun surrounded by green and rear ceramic pots
Bright yellow calendula, often known as pot marigold, in the sunshine
Two hover flies on a poppy head
3 space swift box under house eve
Red kite in front of my Victorian rose wall
Hover fly in the head of a climbing rose
Plantago in garden scrub area. 3 stems with poppies in the background
A mulberry in the morning sunshine betwixt green leaves!
Cheltenham racecourse with oxeye daisies in the foreground and cleeve escarpment in the rear
Yellow rose growing up a cottage red brick wall
Blue delphinium in a garden bed in the sunshine surrounded by green 💚
Screen Shot of Little Britain Prime Minister shot outside no. 10 Downing Street with Anthony Head and David Walliams
Purple single peony head 💜
Gertrude Jekyll
Close up of Painted Lady butterfly
Patterdale terrier flat out in the heat on a lap
Wisteria vine through a metal gate. Ethereal secret garden somewhere is Cheltenham..
DJ Yoda on his decks counting down to the millennium. In a rave tent with 900 middle aged ravers remembering what fun was like before children and jobs happened!
Sticky weed close up held by my hand whilst pulling it out of a flower bed
Close up of birds foot trefoil in orange 🧡 3 flower heads close together
Red helenium head with yellow halo seeds
Rhyparochromus vulgaris
Wellingtonian Sequoia
Yellow buttercup in the morning with green grass in the background
Cox's Meadow, Cheltenham at sunrise
Hairy footed girl been in bright blue lithadora in the sunshine
Hawthorn May flower in full bloom on a sunny roadside in Cheltenham
Pink bright 🩷 phlox heads reaching up in the sunshine
Honey bee 🐝 in blue lithodora .. few forget me knots dotted in!
📸 of Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
White Iris in the sunshine 🤍
Multiple truly bright and sunny Euryops pectinatus yellow flower heads.
Holly blue sat on a yew hedge in the sunshine wings closed
Dusky pink magnolia flowers on a mature tree in Cheltenham
Geum today tangerine bud
A selection of sprightly coloured spring flowers taken today in my garden 🏡
Green multi headed hellebore