What a glorious day. The croft is bursting with weeds (aka wildflowers) and we love it. We have buttercups growing in thick profusion next to the vegetable area, and it’s just so beautiful.
I couldn’t help have a bit of an ironic chuckle to myself today too. About two years ago we sowed pignut and bluebell seeds in the little copse on the western boundary before we moved onto the croft.
Now that we live here, we can see that we have a profusion of both popping up all over the croft. There was no need to sow them – they’re growing everywhere here naturally. The impatience and innocence of townies. All we had to do was wait and watch…
This is a beautiful time of the year here on the croft. Everything is in bloom, and the insects (sadly including the midges) are everywhere. It’s a price we’re prepared to pay. Anyway, we’ve got hats and nets…
We wake up each morning to the cuckoo, the skylarks and the swallows wheeling overhead.
I’d got so used to hardly ever seeing insects in the city that it’s been a bit of a shock to find ourselves cohabiting with so many at such close quarters. Weevils, oil beetles, lacewings, strange, alien looking creatures that we don’t know are friend or foe, but which have at least as much right to be here as us.
Google lens and plant apps are being used daily. This is richly diverse meadow and moorland, and we’re loving learning about it.
The house build continues apace, with plasters and plumbers being lined up to help over the coming months, but it’s very hard not to get seduced into just being on the croft.
Ravencroft Skye 
I too have been using my Google Lens around the clock – love learning about the local flora! x
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It’s such a good idea! Husband found it and I use it loads now
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You’ve definitely been bitten by the bug then 😄
Or even, lots of them 😶
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Definitely LOTS of them 😂😂
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Yes, bugs have rights! 🙂 But! Do you have ticks where you are??
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Yes! Far too many, to be honest. They come off the deer and are everywhere. Much as I don’t mind most insects I confess that I find ticks loathsome things
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They are terrible!!!! They terrorize people and wildlife, bring awful diseases and kill our Moose here in Maine! While I relocate most bugs outside we destroy any ticks we find.
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Same here. Horrible things
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Nature is so mysterious, she hides her greatest beauty for those with patience to see (not sure who I am paraphrasing here, but I remember it from my reading). We were the same on our block; I spent many hours spreading wattle seed to improve the nitrogen of our soils (and to help build soils with mulch) only to discover there were already many wattles spread throughout the bush.
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Well said that woman 👍❤️
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