A fine pear!

Change in the weather today! Sunny, cloudy, showery - much more like normal!

Carried on with my London pictures this morning - now on to day 6 out of 8, but still a lot to sort. Then I'll do my usual of titling all the central London ones and writing up the route. Good fun - or I think so!

After lunch I went out for a walk, a loop around the roads more or less up at our level. Some wonderful cumulus clouds sailing through a blue sky. On the way back along Duncraggan Road I passed this lovely tree. I've taken pictures of it many times and spent some time a couple of years ago trying to identify it. I came to the conclusion then that it was a pear, Pyrus calleryana, which is native to the Far East, maybe the cultivar  'Bradford', but I'm not sure if that's correct. If so, it's very invasive in the USA though considered ornamental. Apparently it's of very unstable growth and many trees are misshapen and have broken branches - this specimen has certainly had some very major surgery done to it!

Later on a Photo Club friend came round to collect some pictures and we had a long chat over a cuppa - inside this time as the showers were passing rapidly.

Quote of the Day: 'Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!’ - Zora Neale Hurston.