The bright morning promised a fine day ahead and that is what we got. Still a chill wind (which dried my washing beautifully) but out of the wind it was verging on warm.
Our walk today was through two bluebell woods, starting at Crwn Wood then through the university fields and into Gogerddan Woods.
As far as the eye could see both woods were carpeted with bluebells. (According to the Woodland Trust they are an ancient woodland indicator plant.) Stunning to see on our gentle afternoon ramble.
Only five of us started the walk this afternoon then our numbers reduced to four as one member had to turn back due to a back issue.
Walking through Crwn Wood our path followed a gently meandering stream. We did manage to see a couple of trout in one of the deeper pools.
Leaving Crwn Wood we crossed fields where the university agricultural research department has experimental plots of legumes and maize and on to Gogerddan Woods.
The woods were once part of the estate attached to Gogerddan Mansion. I've been looking further into the history of the estate going back to 1500 but it's too late in the evening for doing more research today.
We stopped in a woodland glade to eat our lunch and I took the opportunity to amass a bundle of sticks suitable for supporting the hardy geraniums in the garden. They're getting to the stage where right now they have formed neat clumps of foliage but once the rain comes, as it inevitably will, everything will just collapse in a soggy mess. As soon as I got home the sticks went in around any plants that needed them.
A couple of photos from yesterday's stunning sunset.
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