The weather over the past few days in East England has been a bit disappointing for July! However, in this case every cloud does have a silver lining…and orange, pink and purple!

Sunset
Cambridgeshire,  10 July 2014

Le Tour

The third stage of this year's Tour de France came through Cambridge.  We claimed a spot outside St John's College and waited - patiently - for the riders to come past.  It is quite narrow there so they couldn't go too fast, even so it was over in a flash!

Tour de France Bunting,
Cambridge, 7 July 2014

Tour de France Riders,
Cambridge, 7 July 2014

Tour de France Support Vehicles,
Cambridge, 7 July 2014

Always lovely to see the bees in the garden.

Bee
Cambridgeshire, 7 June 2014

Our go-to local walk is a couple of miles of meadows and woodland in our village and despite walking there often we normally find something new to photograph.  Today the cow parsley in the woodland has finished but the thistles are high and the wheat field is ripening.  There were a couple of butterflies and the nettles were covered in places by Peacock caterpillars.

Large Skipper butterfly - Ochlodes venata
 Cambridgeshire, 15 June 2014

Ringlet butterfly - Aphantopus hyperantus
Cambridgeshire, 15 June 2014

Peacock caterpillar - Inachis io
Cambridgeshire 15 June 2014