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On my recent visit to Cambridgeshire, I was lured to visit Wimpole Hall by the prospect of a National Trust pot of tea and a scone.

(  A wander round the walled garden, on a bright June day... )

Just because you take a day off work, it doesn't mean that the sun will shine...

( Summer's gone and autumn has yet to arrive )

A sudden desire to go walking in the sunlight with the leaves falling... So I drove over to Kingston Lacy for a walk in the park.

( Mission accomplished )

All along the lanes, the leaves are changing: dogwood turning red-purple, field maple to gold. So I thought it might be time to make my autumn pilgrimage to the maples at Minterne...

( Paths through the shade... )

Anyone know what this is?

Cosmos: not an image from the James Webb space telescope.

( A garden in an August heatwave )

A visit to the perfume garden at Keyneston Mill today. And although the gardens themselves were perhaps more interesting than spectacular, the walk through the garden's river meadows beside the Stour was fabulous, with the strong summer wind setting everything in motion - the grasses and reeds and the silver-leaved White Willows - and with Meadow Brown butterflies and metallic blue damselflies fluttering up from the vegetation at every step.

( Grey cloud, green river... )