#255 - Green Elderberries

The elderberries are purpling as the season turns, but the green, unripe berries are striking against the red stems.

#254 - Purple Cranesbill

This is from my Summer stash, but we have been away and I saw that meadow geraniums, which are a similar colour, are still out in the fields down country.  This blue I couldn't resist and the distinctive geranium veins are feathering the tissue-thin petals oh so perfectly

#253 - Three Leaf Clovers with Raindrops

Leaving the park today our eyes were drawn to a patch of clover leaves in the grass bejewelled with droplets of silver.

#252 - Wild Morning Glory and Herb Robert

Oh we love bindweed although we know we shouldn't - it's brave, bugle-shaped flowers appear all over the city, it's green tendrils twining lovingly in hedges and fences. My daughter can only remember that it's called Morning Glory, my favourite name for it, and the most fitting because it sounds like trumpets... and hope.

#251 - Ragwort

I know this is a common weed but it is so bold and beautiful. Rain or shine and pretty much all year round, it is lightening some corner of the city.

#250 - Pink Clover and Dried Grass

These are the colours of my Summer - the soft,dusky pink of clover flowers and the faded straw colour of tall grasses dried by the sun. It has not been the bright beautiful Summer I would have liked, feeling somewhat grey myself I have struggled to look for the beauty around me, but these calm colours, which clothe the hills near where we walk almost every day, have been unfailingly comforting. 

#249 - Kiss-me-on-the-mountain

A happy name for these bright, butterfly-like flowers which were all over the park we were at today.