Maximum temperature 24C, minimum 15C. 24 km/h NW winds with 39 km/h gusts. 13 mm rain measured this morning.
Calendula and bee.
Gatekeeper female -she seems to have a little wing damage....
A different Gatekeeper female....
and a male.
A Shield bug that I cannot identify further!
Bee in a pumpkin flower.
Choisya ternata flowering for the second time this year.
Echeveria....
And the second Echeveria flower that I have had this year
Hydrangea.
Finally in the veg garden - Haricot beans in the front, chard left back, carrots far right back and if you look carefully, you can see the fern from the fennel between the carrots and haricot....
Spring onions in the front and more carrots behind....
and under all this green are some excellent parsnips.
Sunflowers by the side of the road en route to Angouleme.
