#summer

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I sometimes wish I'd taken my #camera along with me when I'm #cycling. As today was going to be a bright sunny day, I made sure I did.

Part of the #cycle #track is along the side of a #canal and here you can see what I presume is a family unit of #swans. The #cygnets are pretty well developed by this stage and I guess it won't be long before they will shed their grey #feathers for white ones.
Two adult swans and two cygnets on a canal

Further along, the path goes over a #straight section of single #RailwayTrack and so you get a nice illustration of the #VanishingPoint of two #ParallelLines. Notice the reflection of the of the blue sky on the smooth #track surface
Straight section of railway track

Not on my usual route, there is a section of double #Tracks which you can see curving to the #left,
Double tracks curving to the left

or to the #right depending on the direction you're looking.
Double tracks curving to the right

Finally, here's my faithful #bike itself, which is a veteran of of 20,000 km and counting.
My bicycle

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A stroll through the #garden at lunchtime. It's a bright, sunny day here today with very good light conditions and so I just wandered around to see what was of interest to #photograph.

In a pale which is used to store #water for watering #plants, you can see what look like #mosquitoes skating on the surface of the water using #SurfaceTension to keep them on top. No doubt, the females will be laying #eggs. You can see #ripples in the water and reflections of the plants around as well as a few #RosePetals which have fallen into the pale.
Insects on the surface of water

The #blackberry plants are flowering. Here are some #white #flowers.
White blackberry flowers

And others are #lilac.
Lilac blackberry flowers

The #RunnerBeans plants are currently less than a metre tall but will grow to close to 3 m in height. However, they're already flowering.
Runner bean flowers

Finally, here's the obligatory #Bumblebee on #Allium #florets but you can see another guest at this hotel, which seems to be a small wasp.
Bumblebee and wasp on allium

I like the bumblebee so much that here she is again in a cropped version of the above image at full resolution.
Close up of bumblebee

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