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Susan Sanderson
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Blogger, reader of books, knitter, chorister, poet https://suestrifles.wordpress.com and https://sueswordsandpictures.wordpress.com
formerly @suesconsideredt on Twitter
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A few from Wharfedale for #FingerpostFriday
A Yellow Public Footpath sign on a gate. Yorkshire Dales National Park. A fingerpost for the Dales Way is in front of a tree growing next to a limestone wall Ivy is covering a wall and the post of a signpost marking the Dales Way in two directions Public Footpath Conistone Road 300 yds through churchyard
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Still early for #WildflowerHour more from the Yorkshire Dales: harebell, knapweed and a yellow flower, possibly Autumn hawkbit. Other flowers I noticed were (like the ones pictured) few and far between, daisy, buttercup, yarrow. 2/2
A single harebell flower Two purplish flowers, leaves and seedheads of knapweed. Grass growing around these. A partly open difficult yellow flower. Its leaves are hidden by grass and other plants.
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Early for #wildflowerHour a few flowers still blooming in the Yorkshire Dales: salad burnet, Lady's bedstraw, mouse-ear hawkweed, hogweed 1/2 🧵
Dark red flowers growing in grass. The leaves are right of centre near the bottom of the picture. Fluffy yellow flowers with spik-shaped leaves growing in grass Pale yellow flower next to a white stone. Leaves shaped like the ears of mice are lower than the flower to the left. Hogweed flowers and leaves seen from above.
October 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Early for #WildflowerHour with #FavouritePlant Purple loosestrife is always spectacular, flowering at the time of year when wars traditionally start. Don't blame the plant! Photo from 18/8/25 Other favourites include primroses and coltsfoot.
A tall plant with spikes of purplish flowers among other plants and trees
September 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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For #WildflowerHour #Fruits Elder, guelder rose and crab apple in a wildflower garden 2/2
Large clusters of elderberries hanging over a wooden walkway Guelder rose berries with purple loosestrife flowers. The leaves of the guelder rose are beginning to turn red. Crab apples glowing in the sunshine
August 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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For #WildflowerHour #Fruits hawthorn (haw) , blackthorn (sloe), Bramble (blackberry) and rugosa rose (hips) 1/2
Clusters of hawthorn berries A single large sloe on a blackthorn hedge Ripe Blackberries A fading rose flower near top left and two hips in the centre of the picture
August 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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For #WildWebsWednesday pollinators on what I think is ground elder
White flowers with grass and young conifers in the background On the flower to the right there is a beetle and a fly. The flower in the centre has a smaller insect on it.
August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Another umbellifer I couldn't be sure about #WildflowerID #WildflowerHour
Soft rush and brambles in the foreground are obscuring the stem of this plant with white flowers, but one leaf is just visible in the foreground
August 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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In the valley the predominant colour is white. It looks like ground elder, but I wasn't sure #WildflowerID #wildflowerHour
Dock, grass, marsh thistle and soft rush in the foreground, white flowers in the valley where trees have been planted, trees woods and fields in the background. White umbels and pinnate leaves of the flowers growing in the other photo in this post
August 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Early for #WildflowerHour Bird's-foot trefoil en masse
A grassy path through a young mixed woodland plantation with predominantly yellow flowers
August 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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On the cliffs and foreshore #ByTheSea thrift, sea plantain (1st photo) and sea mayweed (2nd photo) were the only seaside plants I noticed among pignut, bird's-eye trefoil, yarrow and yellow flowers from the daisy family
#WildflowerHour
A clump of thrift with pink flowers and light brown seed heads, sea plantain in the foreground A plant with large daisy-like flowers
August 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Lots of #pollinators yesterday for #WildWebsWednesday There were also red-tailed bumble bees. ID's in ALT text
A bee fly on field scabious A small bee (carder bee?) on field scabious A white-tailed bumble bee on a knapweed flower. There is another insect on a different flower top right. Small tortoiseshell butterfly on red valerian with brambles
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Too hot to go far looking for any more #HairyPlants for #wildflowerHour This nettle is aiming for the sky. (It isn't really taller than the hedge. I took the photo from below.)
A stinging nettle in flower in the foreground. There is a hedge behind it. Clear blue sky.
July 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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When did it become a 'thing' that authors talking about their latest books have to wear the cover? (Fascinating talk from postalpathsguy.bsky.social hosted by the local library) #WritingCommunity #BookSky #BookChatWeekly
Alan Cleaver giving a talk in a library, wearing a shirt with a leaf design print, resembling the cover of the book he was talking about. Cover of The Postal Paths. The trees on the cover resemble the pattern on the author's shirt in the other photo. The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain's Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked them
July 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Butterflies showing both sides of their wings for #WildWebsWednesday 2/2
Meadow brown butterfly with closed wings on a blade of grass Meadow brown butterfly with open wings sunning itself on a bramble.
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A few examples of #WildWebsWednesday creatures 1/2
Ragwort in flower with soldier beetles, caterpillars of cinnabar moths and more A shiny snail on a bramble leaf. Unripe blackberries out of focus in the foreground. A moth among blades of grass
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Some I am less certain about for #GrassChallenge #WildflowerHour #WildflowerID I suspect the third one (a least) is a sedge.
A tall grass, which bends over growing with cleavers and other plants A fairly tall grass which could be Timothy grass from its shape. Grasses and possibly sedges growing beside a path with bushes and a flood plain beyond Grasses (or possibly sedges) with brown flowers
June 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I can hardly believe I forgot about #WildflowerHour after braving the high grass pollen to take photos! It was a busy day with two choir practices and two services. Then we were listening to a fascinating PG Wodehouse audiobook. So I am posting late! #GrassChallenge Descriptions in ALT text🧵
Cocksfoot in the foreground with hedgerow trees and fields in the background, pale blue sky Rye grass in the foreground with nettles, hedge, and fields just visible in the top left corner. Close view of Yorkshire fog with some soft rush on the right. Yorkshire fog on each side of a path along the edge of a plantation of trees adds colour. Brambles on the right. Taller trees top centre, fields and a view towards a village on the left. Pale sky.
June 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Two photos for #FungusFriday ID help appreciated
A group of toadstools, one with a flat top others pointed Toadstools with pointed caps and circular markings in shades of brown
June 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Can a snail be caught red-handed? #WildWebsWednesday #NatureWriting
A small snail in the centre of a daisy-like flower (Ox-eye daisy?) with some petals partly eaten. Other plants in the background include Bird's- foot Trefoil in flower.
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Common Valerian growing on the opposite bank of the beck from the Hemlock Water Dropwort in the previous post for #AquaticPlants and #WildflowerHour (bonus photo of Meadowsweet with ducks!)
A grass-like water plant is growing top left and covering some of the surface of a beck. Tall white-flowered plants are on the bank with ferns and other plants. Meadowsweet on the left and five ducks one of which has its tail in the air as it feeds.
June 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A few #AquaticPlants from a walk yesterday evening before the storm #Wildflowerhour water forget-me-not, soft rush, Himalayan balsam with meadowsweet, and hemlock water dropwort
Forget-me-not flowers in pale blue and yellow in clusters at the bottom right and near the top in the centre of the picture. various leaves. Various plants in front of a boardwalk. The rushes are in the foreground. there are more plants beyond the boardwalk over the edge of a pond. Pink and white flowers of Himalayan balsam near the top and bottom of the photo with white meadowsweet flowers near the centre. White flowers of Hemlock Water Dropwort falling from the bank of a beck, where a grass-like weed is covering the surface of the water.
June 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Other #UrbanPlants included Redshank, Shepherd's Purse, Bramble, dock and wild rose #WildflowerHour
A plant with pink flowers in the shape of a small brush growing on the edge of a carpark A few plants, mainly Shepherd's purse, on the edge of a car park Along the edge of a wide pavement near a store, bramble, dock and wild rose are a few of the plants bringing the countryside into the town #NatureWriting
June 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I found two #UrbanPlants that were new to me in Penrith - hop trefoil and purple toadflax #WildflowerHour
A plant with clover-like leaves and yellow flowers A fairly tall plant with narrow leaves and purple flowers at the top of the stem growing next to a wall
June 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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For #WildWebsWednesday a shiny beetle on a mouse-ear hawkweed flower
A bluish green beetle in the centre of a yellow flower in a field
June 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM