I have always loved this grass which covers the local fields. It ripples like waves on a calm ocean when the wind blows through it.
Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus), local field, Staffordshire, England. May 2017.
By Peter Hillman
I have always loved this grass which covers the local fields. It ripples like waves on a calm ocean when the wind blows through it.
Yorkshire Fog (Holcus lanatus), local field, Staffordshire, England. May 2017.
I love them too, they are like a tinted sea in the wind. All rosy.
miriam
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They are all rosy. Thank you for your comment, Miriam 🙂
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You are not alone. We have a lot of wild grasses that sway in the wind here on the Prairie. I absolutely love to watch them. Okay, I also take photographs… but I’m sure you knew that 🙂
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I love wild grasses. There are so many different ones to enjoy but they are often overlooked. I need to pay more attention to them 🙂
Ahh … I had an idea you took photographs, too, Sumyanna 😉
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Soo tranquil….😊
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🙂
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Nice Pete! I’d frame that first image 🙂 And by the way…thanks for the inspiration, should have my new Olympus macro lens next Tuesday evening.
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Thank you Diana 🙂 You are welcome, and oh, wow, you sure moved fast on that! I was a little behind in my last reply, I guess, lol! I hope you get to post your images on your blog, If you do I will look forward to seeing them! 🙂
Happy Snappin’!
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Thanks Pete! Yes I checked reviews and found a nice recommended lens. Now will be counting down the sleeps. In the meantime will be perusing your blog avidly 😊
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Nice one, Diana 🙂 It will be like Christmas come early, as it was for me at the time:) Thank you 🙂
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Laughed quietly to myself when I saw these photos … I avoid this stuff like the plague – gives me terrible hay-fever!
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I am touched by the hay-fever, too, but luckily and thankfully just a little. When I took these they were damped down some after the rains, which helped 🙂
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I too love grasses as they gracefully dance in the winds. Great shots, Pete!! 🌹
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Thank you, Amy 🙂 Indeed they do dance as you say! 🙂
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I don’t think many people realise just how many grasses there are. These pink tinted ones are just lovely! 🙂
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In the past I have found trying to isolate grasses ad then trying to identify them quite a challenge. There are indeed so many. Then you have your sedges and rushes, all beautiful and interesting in their own individual ways. I may do a project on them this summer, but like always, time is is such a factor 🙂 Thank you, Jude. They are probably my no.1 favourite of the grasses because of that rosy pink 🙂
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I’ll look forward to a grasses project if you do it! 😀
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Thank you, Jude 🙂
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I love the various grasses also……for that very same reason. There are many used in the formal Landscaping along the river near my home and I love the way the wind blows one row one way and the others the opposite, making a sort of zig-zag effect. Can be hard to photograph though. Same with the dying sun catching each seed head and turning it into a field of golden lights.
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Beautifully scribed, Vicki 🙂 They can be quite a challenge to photo, and yet just being amongst them as the wind blows, all moving around you, and listening to them whisper is really quite something.
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This grassy type of Yorkshire Fog I like, though I didn’t know it was called that. The other type, coming from Yorkshire, I’ve seen enough of this week, as early June has been so awful.
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Same here with the rain and dull weather. Made up for for the dry April and May, I think. I just hope it picks as I have a few days off work and want to get out! 🙂
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