Daisy

A day out at RHS Wisley with my photographic group.  Not that I deserve to run one given the quality of the past couple of blips. :)

Starting out at a smaller cafe, that sits in the orchard, we avoided the queues as the mass of young families aimed straight for the main watering hole.  It's always quieter there but mostly when I post an event we go to the one that people who haven't visited previously can easily find. 
Today it was just a small bunch of regulars ... and Avril.  Sadly, she''ll soon be moving back north. There are few people who just walk into the group and fit as though they've been with us since day one but Avril is one of them.
She's hilarious and the men among us had little option but to listen or join in with our banter! I think it started when someone tried to photograph mating beetles. Something along the lines of 'perfect focus, pity the penis isn't.. because it's flapping in the wind'. 
The cracks and innuendos just went on and on.  By the time we stopped for lunch we were in such high spirits that I believe there was a real risk we could be barred from the restaurant area but we did modify our language for the benefit of young ears. 

We didn't get far. There was so much to photograph around the orchard and vegetable gardens. There's a very pretty meadow that was swarming with insects, which is my cup of tea and I've managed to pass the bug to almost everyone else. 
A child was playing with a magnifying kit and plastic spider.  I feigned fright when she mistakenly threw it my direction, which pleased her no end.  Within seconds I had made a little friend and was explaining that the Harvestman she had caught in her box wasn't really a spider. Then she tried to balance her little plastic spider on a poppy. My second photo is added as a momento of the precious minutes I spent in company of Angelica and her family. 

It was Penstemon day and we all picked up a well packaged gift pack of six collectors plug plants.  We'll use the excuse that they were difficult to carry without bags for only getting a little further than the fabulous display of Dahlias and the Sunflowers that should be stunning by next week.  

All too soon it was time to get back and walk the mutts, who really don't appreciate being left at home. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day.