Pictures of late summer England

[wongkk]

I took the camera with me to work yesterday so the views you see in this post are part of my bike ride in the morning and in the evening. I've chosen this time to take the pictures as the water-meadows (part of the local flood plain) have just been mown, leaving lines of golden hay lying in the fields. It is a very old-fashioned sight.

Comments

[wongkk]

It does look like some un-real Golden Era when the land was healthy and full of fruit. I hope your nostalgia is happy!

Thanks for visiting here.

[shyone05]

Lovely pictures. Thanks for sharing. :)
Reminds me of the open fields around my home, growing up; sad to say it's mostly been paved over, save for my mom's little oasis. The only thing growing there now is houses.

[wongkk]

Ah - it would be the same here if it were not for the fact that the land either side of the river is under water for quite a few weeks each winter.

The amazing thing about one of these meadows is that every two or three years it bursts red with poppies in the early summer; it must be something to do with when the field is ploughed, I think.

I'm glad you enjoyed seeing the pictures. I love seeing the landscape round where people live - it's one of the global pleasures that the internet provides very well.

Thanks for taking a look here.

[shyone05]

It must be beautiful with the poppies in bloom...

[bugackt]

Ahh now I missed the smell of the hays and the fields. What was there - rice or wheat? Or are those just plain grass mowed?

Is that a lake or a river? The greens surrounding the fields look very healthy. It's far different from the dry fields here.

It's a very nice place. I'd like to visit you there one day. :)

[wongkk]

Sorry for the slow reply. I have been very distracted these last two days. We don't grow rice in the UK (too cold) and, although we do grow wheat, this was just plain grass (which, dried, makes hay).

The water is a river which frequently floods in the winter so those fields are flooded or very wet for several weeks of the year. In the summer, it is different though and there is a public path along to river all the way into the city centre. The river flooding puts new mud (soil) on the fields each year and this seems to make the land continually fertile without the need for any artificial nutrients.

It IS a very nice place and I would be honoured to take you there if you are able to visit the UK. It would be lovely if you did have the chance to do that one day.