A full moon to the south, sunset in the west, and a shady man on a bench being moonstruck.
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And then the sweet scent of Lady’s Bedstraw which this year has colonized much of the hill, pushing out the orchids…
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And then some views of Wenlock’s hay-cut fields between the moonrise and the sunset…
Tish Farrell 
Smashing post, Ms. T.
Thank you, kind sir.
Great captures of the tranquillity of the twilight hour, Tish!
Thank you, Peter.
It’s nearly my bed time at sunset!
Ours’ too 🙂
Ladies bed straw is a new one on me. Pretty…is it considered a weed.
Not really a weed, but typical of limestone meadows. In the past it was used to stuff mattresses, particularly for women confined to bed during pregnancy. I think I’d like a pillow stuffed with it, it smells so lovely, but here wild flowers aren’t to be picked.
Lovely twilight. Bedstraw is behaving badly, but everything else is perfect.
It’s very beautiful though. I imagine it can cope better with the hot weather than the orchids, and even it is keeping lower to the ground than it usually does. The late summer flowers are out too.
I should not complain on behalf of orchids!!!
I was on my patio last night with guests, and looking at that same moon in the sky…
That’s a nice thought – all of us looking up across the world.
Quite mystical
Lovely to see the windmill again. These summer evenings are such a blessing.
Yes, warm evenings – how often do we have them. Now we’re having them all at once!
What beautiful light! 😀
Very other-worldly 🙂
It was indeed a lovely evening, Tish. 🙂 🙂 We landed at Leeds about 8, popped in on James, and then drove north with full moon on one side of the road and sunset on the other. Sorely tempting but it had been a long day.
That must’ve been pretty spectacular. Glad you’re safely home.
So beautiful. Very enjoyable photos, which calm man’s soul. I am interested in windmills, not in those modern, but traditional windmills. The windmill in Your photos must be old, because it has lost its wings.
In Finland, we have about 680 traditional windmills and I have found them quite late when having my digital camera. If You are interested to see some of our traditional windmills, then
Traditional windmills
Happy new week.
Your photos of windmills in Finland are simply wonderful. There are not many left in the UK with their sails, or wings as you put it ( a much better word). Our windmill is a bit of a mystery. I think there’s a date carved inside of 1673 or thereabouts, but no-one can work out how the milling mechanism would have looked on this particular structure, or even if it did have any wings. There are old records relating to a mill in that location, but no descriptions, as I suppose no one thought they needed to describe their own mill at the time.
Can You give here the exact name of windmill. I will check it later. Tomorrow I will post a quilt post and then after two weeks a post presenting the life of three windmills in Finland.
Thank You in advance.
It doesn’t have a name as such other than being the Much Wenlock windmill. Here are a couple of links: http://www.windmillworld.com/millid/1255.htm
http://www.ellinghampress.co.uk/page/muchWenlockWindmill
Yours was better than mine:
http://milldatabase.org//mills/58113
Thank You.
Wonderfully atmospheric!
Thanks, Kate 🙂
So beautiful Tish you have a good eye for a good shot. Much Wenlock must be magical to live in 😊
Thank you, Athena. There is indeed quite a bit of magic in this place. People have been here for 13 centuries – probably longer – lots of tales of glowing saintly bones and not a few wells.