Fruit, soft-bodied, must be enjoyed while fresh. While the hard encasing of nuts and seeds means they’ll store for winter. Like these . . .
Seeds of the common mallow taste just like peanuts
Fruit of the oak. These can actually be eaten but require something like three months of processing to remove the bitter tanins. Yet our ancestors ate them . . . before they discovered the convenience of grain.
These hazel nuts aren’t yet ripe. And being pale they’re reflecting the day’s strong sunlight.
Chestnuts . . . but not the edible ones. Within these stubbly husks of the horse chestnut are nuts better known as conkers. Boys fight battles with them.
The linden tree (though strictly speaking that’s the small leaved lime while this, clearly, is the large-leaved version). In spring when in flower it is heavy with bees collecting pollen. Now, in early autumn, it is heavy with ‘keys’.
It’s not only the lime heavy with keys. These are of ash, and are slightly more ripe than in the next shot, taken earlier this summer
I couldn’t resist the shot, I loved the colours of the young ash keys
This time of year butterflies seem kinda drowsy allowing this bonus shot. The tree is a sycamore. The butterfly is a red admiral
And the very definite ‘wingedness’ of the field maple’s keys
Since I started with an herb, I’ll finish with one. This is the seed head of hogweed (featured previously in ‘Rhapsody in Pink’), a humble plant much beloved by rabbits.
My next photo-blog will very likely feature cliffs, and the sea. I’m away on a holiday, though nowhere exotic, just a different patch of Norfolk to walk.
crispina kemp 
But every place is exotic, if you haven’t been there!
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And I shall make it seem ‘exotic’ . . . when I have finished transferring the 600+ photos to the laptop for editing. (No, I shall not use all of them 🙂 )
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E.J. also took about as many photos, although many of them are either architectural details or pictures of furnished rooms in period styles that she wants as references for her current graphic novel project. So not that many are typical tourist photos.
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Currently ploughing through them and higher % seem to be of the gull-dotted shore, and loads of heavy skies/ But also, like EJ’s, architectural studies, particularly churches. Oh, and I came across Norfolk’s answer to the Bayeux tapestry. I’ll email it later; not to be used on blog as it might infringe copyright. Oh yes, and I found some excellent examples of various fungi!
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E-mail received and to be read today, though I must also spend time helping E.J. prepare for “24-hour Comic Book Day,” in which comic book creators sit down and try to write and draw a comic book in 24 hours straight, noon to noon.
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Wow! Wish her luck from me.
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WOw more great plants. The colors of the first image really drew me in.
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Yea, and some of these I’ve been holding since the late July, wanting to use them, but wanting this ‘full set’, which includes the acorns.
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