My picture of the day-Where's yours?

[Mojonaut]

Blue skies all the way but a nasty headwind on the return leg

Fotheringhay Church

Winwick Church for a break for lunch

 

[welsh dragon]

Spring is well and truly in full swing now. The fields are a deep shade of green and there are ewes and they're lambs

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

lovely white cherry blossom from today's ride.

 

[welsh dragon]

lovely white cherry blossom from today's ride.
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Beautiful photo

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Beautiful photo

thank you. sadly it was all I managed to get before the battery decided otherwise, so whilst I now know how long the battery will last (around 400 shots with about half using flash) I wasn't able to get any other shots of the blossom, and suspect that it will have faded/fallen next time I am over that way, but the tree itself is heavily laden with blossom and looks amazing - it just didn't photo very well against a white cloudy skyline today!

 

[welsh dragon]

thank you. sadly it was all I managed to get before the battery decided otherwise, so whilst I now know how long the battery will last (around 400 shots with about half using flash) I wasn't able to get any other shots of the blossom, and suspect that it will have faded/fallen next time I am over that way, but the tree itself is heavily laden with blossom and looks amazing - it just didn't photo very well against a white cloudy skyline today!

I think it's really sad that blossom that lovely disappears so, quickly. Its not fair

 

[Mojonaut]

Spring is well and truly in full swing now. The fields are a deep shade of green and there are ewes and they're lambs

Whilst here in Northants. we have sickly yellow everywhere

Last week and Today,

 

[welsh dragon]

Whilst here in Northants. we have sickly yellow everywhere

Last week and Today,


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Is that rape seed?

 

[Mojonaut]

Is that rape seed?

Yes and the smell is almost as unpleasant as the colour - tho' I recall seeing a news item last year of Japanese (I think) tourists coming over specifically to see it.

 

[welsh dragon]

Yes and the smell is almost as unpleasant as the colour - tho' I recall seeing a news item last year of Japanese (I think) tourists coming over specifically to see it.

I didn't know it smelled. I've never seen any growing.

 

[simon.r]

Yes and the smell is almost as unpleasant as the colour - tho' I recall seeing a news item last year of Japanese (I think) tourists coming over specifically to see it.

Plenty of yellow fields around South Notts as well. I quite like the smell tbh.

 

[welsh dragon]

Plenty of yellow fields around South Notts as well. I quite like the smell tbh.

What does it smell like. It has to be better than sheep poo. which currently is being spread all over my field

 

[simon.r]

What does it smell like. It has to be better than sheep poo. which currently is being spread all over my field

Its smells like, er...rape seed! Difficult to describe, quite a sweet, sickly smell. Very distinctive. I wouldn't want to live next to a field of it, but riding past a field I think it's quite nice.

 

[Mojonaut]

I couldn't really describe it either Simon, to me its not a nice perfume like from say a Rose , but neither is it a cat pee smell ....well maybe nearer to that than a Rose

If you ride bridleways through it, it's quite overpowering, I found this description in a search....

In the 1970s, oilseed rape was barely known in Britain. Many people were suspicious of this alien seed which announces itself with its all-pervasive perfume, reminiscent of honey to some, cloyingly sweet and as sickly as regurgitated baby milk to others.

maybe its a Marmite thing, love it or hate it.

 

[welsh dragon]

I couldn't really describe it either Simon, to me its not a nice perfume like from say a Rose , but neither is it a cat pee smell ....well maybe nearer to that than a Rose

If you ride bridleways through it, it's quite overpowering, I found this description in a search....

In the 1970s, oilseed rape was barely known in Britain. Many people were suspicious of this alien seed which announces itself with its all-pervasive perfume, reminiscent of honey to some, cloyingly sweet and as sickly as regurgitated baby milk to others.

maybe its a Marmite thing, love it or hate it.

Sounds rather like ewww. I'll stick to, sheep poo