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The sky at night, from your Morecambe correspondent... about 9.15pm.

Apologies, couldn't help bits of window frame in some of the shots - the attic this time, not the loo!

The first three pics are looking over Lancaster towards the Bowland hills, the others are over Morecambe Bay.

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Two more, high in the sky.

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you actually got the sunto set nicely for you tonight. Too dull in Accy.

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Just luck that I happened to be looking out the window at the right time. It was actually better a few minutes earlier but there was a camera malfunction and I had to do a bit of tweaking before I could take any pics.

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Its not down to knowledge, its searching for the right flower on identification guides.

I actually had a damp posterior and mucky knees (I was in shorts as Mrs. P. will confirm). You cant get closeup shots without getting down with the flora. So I'm braced ready.

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I cant compete with the sunset pictures, nice colours, couldn't see the window frame at all, looked like buildings, so If you hadn't said we wouldn't have known.

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Bottom RH corner, pics 5 and 6...

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Part 1. Today in Pictures. A familiar walk not so familiar perspective.

1. Its been raining ...again
2. The snails are moving to higher ground. What does that tell you.
3. Its a wood louse coming down a wall.
4. A quick butchers down the canal.
5. Another butchers over to the Nab.
6. I think that one is caramel flavour.............it wasn't...........it was snail flavour.
7. Flowers on the lime trees overhanging the towpath.
8. Willow Herb flower.
9. A look over to Pendle Hill.
10. Moss on a wall, with fruiting bodies.

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Part 2. Today in Pictures, the second batch start with creepy crawlies.

11. Its watching me.
12. Sit...Sit...Shake a paw.
13. Thats my aunty.
14. familiar scene but later in the season, and without buttercups.
15. Nearest I can get is Sweet Cicely, but not definite.
16. Another I cant identify, its so small its hardly visible to the casual glance.
17. I used to have a haircut like that.
18. St. Marys Graveyard, with a view to the Petre Family vault.
19. Sphagnum moss on a wall.
20. View across the field from a corner of the graveyard.

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Part 3. Today in Pictures, almost time for the journey home.

21.Pine tree bark, with my nose pressed against it.
22. Is it safe to park on the bend?
23. Its a race, chase me.
24. Does my bum look big in this?
25. Tigg, your on.

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Some brilliant pics there Dave.
I would love to be able to take pictures of insects, but if I am honest they scare the britches off me(I'm a wuss and am afraid they might bite me sting me or worse...run up my trouser leg). I don't mind snails, but slugs are repugnant....another 'boy' thing I guess.
I chickened out today.....the tinlids got mini laptops for getting brilliant school reports, so I was loading them with music, pictures, videos, word processor programs and a couple of games.
I was flavour of the month when they got home from school.

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Love 21..but you knew I would didn't you?
Pattern, colour, texture. Great stuff.

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Great selection today Dave, especially the slugs and snails! Oh... and the woodlouse is my favourite!

I would say that is definitely not sweet cicely, that flowers much earlier and will have set seeds by now. Easy to recognise when you do fiind it (I have it in my garden, cook it with rhubarb as a sweetener instead of adding a lot of sugar). The leaves smell of aniseed when crushed, and the seeds are about an inch long and taste of aniseed - good to chew if you have an upset stomach.

Having said all that, not easy to work out what it is, could be wild carrot, fool's parsley, hedge parsley etc. Withe umbellifers a lot depends on leaf shape, flower bracts etc - things that need a close scrutiny.

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I am definitely going to look out for an Observer book of British wild flowers........it would be useful and I would share it with Dave.

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I went out ready for the rain, but it stopped fine the whole way around. It was warm actually. I think there is always the camera between myself and the wickies, and if a slug ran up my leg it would have to get past my bike clips first.

It was me trying abstract, I walked around the tree for a while until I found the right bit, good job there was no one about