Tag: Tansy

Yarrow and Tansy

yarrow and tansy

Seed heads of tansy, from a rough verge in Ossett and yarrow from a grassy area at Newmillerdam.

Newmillerdam

On Monday morning wisps of thin vapour blew over the surface of the ice. There was a hollow clacking as a child three chunks of ice and rock onto the frozen surface of the lake.

One of a family of four swans touching down at the far side of the overshot the landing site and went skimming along the watery surface of the ice. A drake mallard landing on ice near the open area by the war memorial did something similar but managed to do an about turn and slid back towards the other ducks he’d landed with.

mallards
Mallards at the Boathouse Cafe yesterday and the Calder below the weir from the Hepworth Cafe today.

Old Leaf

sycamore leafThis sycamore leaf has a blob of tar spot fungus across its midrib.

dry stems

I picked it up at the weekend at Barbara’s brother’s garden in Ossett and on rough ground by the lane found these dry stems. Although the flower head has a flattish top like an umbel the individual stems emerge from different points on the stem, so botanically it’s a corymb.

I think that it might be tansy.