The April drought continues producing some strange results. Lack of mowing has produced some spectacular displays of roadside flowers, notably dandelions. They reckon that flowers and their eventual seeds are a plants efforts to regrow after distress. The flowers are at their brightest but soon die back once pollenated to produce seeds. In the case of dandelions they take the form of pom-poms which soon look scruffy as the wind and rain do their parts in distributing the individual seeds. Not this year though:
This small verge by Settle telephone exchange is covered with a fine display of perfectly formed and complete seed-heads. No recent wind and certainly no rain for weeks.
Taking the air yesterday on the tank deck to see the six o'clock trains come and go I was delighted to see a black cloud up there - so much so I took a picture of it. No rain though:
Further up the valley the setting sun lit up Pen y Ghent, emphasising its likeness to Australia's Ayers Rock:
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