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Originally Posted by mobertol
I went out for my power-walk up the lane early this afternoon - didn't take my camera and wished I had so I came back and had a second nature walk a little later to take some photos of the lovely wild flowers I had seen by the stream. lots of colour and plenty of insects around including an orange dragonfly and a Common blue butterfly (a male one the guide says!) I think the pink flower is an orchid not sure about the first blue one - I'm sure Dave will put me straight.
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Not sure of the blue one, although it does have certain characteristics of the cornflower, so perhaps a sub species, and the "Orchid" is Betony (herb), Orchids have rosette type leaves close to the ground and send a flower spike up with just a flower on, Betony pushes up a flower with smaller leaves at the flowering point.
Good job you revisited your walk with a camera, those Common Blue Butterflies, I have been stalking those for over a year and never managed to get a solid shot of them, so two gold stars on the wall chart.