We all gathered at the Palace Hub Gallery on the Esplanade, Redcar, on Sunday 25th October for the private view and the handing out of prizes for our Cleveland Coast Photography competition.
It was a great way to meet up with
Cloudy, with very little wind.
There were interesting plants almost as soon as we got out of our cars, on the layby opposite the potash mine. Here, verge cutting during the year (the equivalent to the gardener’s Chelsea Chop) had given
Sunny with some cloud; windy at the clifftop but quite sheltered on the steps.
As there is very little space for parking at Hummersea, we ferried people from the car park at Loftus and some people walked from there too enjoying
Sunny intervals, turning cooler later.
We started out looking at the white (and one pink form) Yarrow flowers in the field by the road and then looked at the Common Knotgrass (tiny pale flowers), Common Mallow (big purple flowers) and the
We started the day with some wildflower identification games – who knew that was even possible. Four drawings and all the children given a flower – stand behind the drawing (a simple enlarged line drawing) that nearest matches your flower
It was raining so we couldn’t go out…never mind, we stayed in at the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and learnt how to draw a plant accurately. First choose your plant (I’d been out earlier collecting some of the more plentiful
We all gathered at the car park and stared transfixed (first plant we looked at, so people are bound to be genuinely interested) at the Hoary Mustard behind the crash barrier which was a mass of quite small nondescript yellow
Lovely evening, but just chilly enough to be wearing a light jumper (a green one in my case, although I notice from the photos that everyone else seems to have a coat on – must be summer then).
So, having gathered
Cloudy, clearing later, but so windy we all wore coats and I had to put a different hat on.
This was a walk that took a little longer than advertised (well, erm…nearly twice as long) because when I was checking the
A bright and windy day with the sun occasionally peeping through the cloud.
We started with the purple flowered Common Mallow in the car park which was looking magnificent in full flower and could be seen as a tall plant almost