Thursday, June 28, 2007
20th June. Our Summer Solstice Walk.
It has been a week now since our evening walk at Tilgate Park to celebrate the Summer Solstice.
Summer still has not arrived - it has been such a wet week; but here in Sussex we have suffered no terrible floods as have occurred in The Midlands and Yorkshire.
But summer flowers still bloom and the world looked lovely as we walked last week.
Foxglove.
Honeysuckle - its scent filled the evening air so sweetly.
The tall lonesome pine.
New season's pine cones.
Astilbe flowers.
Path through the forest by the lake filled with late evening sunshine.
A quiet time by the lake - few people there late in the day.
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A lake has always attracted people to its beauty or its facilities for leisure.
The plaque reminds us that Sir Malcolm Campbell used the lake to test Bluebird his famous speed record breaking boat.
Anglers spend the hours of darkness by the water.
The lake at dusk.
