CAMERA CAPERS

We had a few days away last week to our usual hotel in Folkestone and decided to go by bus to Canterbury.  We did not go into the Cathedral - £12.50 Each (!) to go in was rather too steep an amount to pay.   We could not even get near the outside.  Besides, we have been in in the past, when it was free, but we would have liked to take a few photographs of the outside, although part of that was covered in scaffolding. We were lucky the weather was warm and sunny. Entrance to visit the Cathedral This little church was just off the High Street.  There was an Orthodox service going on so we did not look around. Just look at the size of this tree trunk!

Just a few flowers in the garden this month. Purple alliums - looking like exploding fireworks The last flower this year on the Tree Peony I don' know what this is - it appeared in the garden many years ago and comes up year after year. Bleeding Heart (sorry blurry photo).  I need to move this as the tree peony is overshadowing it. This also sometimes known as "Lady in the Bath" - a sure way to get very small children giggling is to take off a flower and turn it upside down whilst pulling gently on the sides to part them - et voila! A Lady sitting in her Bath! I think this is called Avens - a wild Geum  Also a white one.  These also suddenly appeared in the garden many years ago and pop up each spring. Geranium macrorrhizum - A beige iris - given to me by a neighbour several years go. Rhododendrons just coming out A pink geranium Gold leaf form of Leycesteria Pink Astrantia - just coming out Thrift - I love these fl