#289 - Dock Stalks against Sky

Yesterdays spectacular evening sky behind the humble dock which dries to such sculptural perfection. Some moments just feel like a gift.

#224 - Dock flowers

Walking through the tall grass this afternoon, the colours in the meadow were heightened by the rain... green, fawn, mauve, dove grey and all shades of pink including these gorgeous fuchsia and lime-green dock weed flowers.

#56 - Dock and Nettles

My seven year old has been saying for some time that she wants to make a picture out of nettles which made me see them rather differently as I had not particularly noticed anything picture-worthy about them before. Saw these wonderful speckledy dock leaves on my walk today with frilled edges which I thought would highlight the toothed edge of the nettle leaves, and of course, docks and nettles always go together...

#29 - Dock Shadows

I had an idea about contrasting the dark brown, dried up stems of dock on the vibrant green leaves. Twenty nine days into this blog and I'm starting to see everything differently  -  but I wasn't expecting the shadows the seed heads cast onto the leaf.

#28 - Dock Weed flowers

I've never really looked at Dock Weed before. I grew up applying them to nettle stings and I have noticed the ugly, dark brown seed heads once the leaves have died, but my daughter picked a stem the other day and I discovered these lovely heart-shaped flowers in a reddish, rusty colour.