Once turning off the ‘main’ road, we went up a lane and left at a fork in the roads then through a wooded copse. I knew we were on the right road. At the bottom of the hill we parked up and after grabbing our gear from the back set off up the meadow.
Our eyes scanned the grass for signs of what might be an orchid. At first we spotted a lot of bright purple, but that ended up being some early purples coming to an end of their time, and were looking very sorry for themselves. However, I did begin to notice what looked like they might be spears of asparagus, some had colour at their tops, and it was these that turned out to be the monkeys. Right at the top of the meadow, in the lea of the western wind, a couple of spears were showing not just colour, but blooms and with one or two open wide. We got down on our bellies and snapped them up close. It was quite a thrill if I’m honest; these are some of the rarest plants in Britain, and here we were just snapping them on a side of a down here in Kent.
It was the end of a glorious day, but as it turned out the beginning of a week, and counting, of increasingly sunny weather.
Each morning the mist and fog would burn off before mid-morning, and the sun shone down from a sky unbroken by clouds. Heading to work as the temperatures raised was difficult, as thoughts went through my head of all the places I could be photographing instead of working. But, it has to be done, and by Thursday the wind began to blow too, and any macro shots would have been impossible anyway and so I got my head down and worked on an increasing number of complex spreasheets. But by the end of the week it was making some kind of sense, and the report I wrote to accompany the spreadsheet seemed to make my boss happy.
And that was it, soon Friday dawned and time crept towards the weekend and clocking off time……
2 comments:
Great pic of the monkey!
Many, many thanks for the tip!
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