Some memories of the beautiful summer at the sea-side.
Set Lleuad (Moon set) at approximately 2:30 in the morning. I deliberately woke up to do this picture however it still isn’t the best one, that has yet to come next year probably. 
Machlud gyda hwyliau-cwch. (Sunset with sail-boat)
Wylan (Seagull)
Penblwydd Hapus, Rambling John!!!
And from me!!! 
Also, I think that pic looks exactly like our plant with little yellow flowers and I think that is lesser spearwort, blaen y gwayw, but I’m no botanist, so if anyone else knows better, please let us know!!!
Penblwydd hapus oddi wrtha i hefyd John!
Here goes mine! “Vse najboljše!” 
Well i didn’t tell anyone but somehow word got out.
Now what would be really nice is if we could all sit around the same table
and share Tatjana’s cake. (tea for me but of course you can drink other brews).
A surprise this morning in (dod o hyd) finding this caterpillar (lindysen), i think i know the species (rywogaeth) but it is rather late in the year. Anyway if anyone would like to take a guess that’s fine with me.
Linysen, of course as soon as i picked it up, it curled into a ball as defense strategy.
Lindysen. now in a box with food which it probably does not want, that’s using the theory it is looking for somewhere to pupate. (we shall see over the next few days.
Cheers J.P.
Coffee for me, please.
I’d love that too, for sure. Hope you’ll have a great celebration and party. 
Cyfarchion cynnes ar dy benblwydd John 
Penblwydd Hapus John.
Penblwydd hapus, John! 
Hope it’s a great day! 
Penblwydd hapus, John! Faint oed dych chi?
When we were walking last weekend I called @ramblingjohn “hen John” to empathize with him. We’ll wait to see if he confesses to being ‘hen’ in the other sense!
chi i gyd yn rhy garedig rwan, te, coffee, cacen a sgwrs, pwy sydd yn gofyn mwy.
Bydd y bosib byddych chi’n galw fi Dinosaur rwan (chwerch deg oed). Hen John, Calon ifanc. Dw i ddim yn sicr amdan fy ymennydd fi. 
It was a good day, the best bit was this beauty.
Rhingia campestris (that snout seems to house a great suction tube (nature never fails to amaze)).
Gwyfyn llenni crychlyd - Angle shades.
Cheers J.P.
Gwych!! There will definately be cake on the next crwydro!! Maybe even a cannwyll neu ddwy 
Penblwydd hapus hwyr i ti, John! 
Did you mean ‘snout’?
And 60 isn’t old from where this one is sitting!!!
editing: the above isn’t me cross. It’s my new signature when feeling happy, friendly etc…
That’s what it says now (isn’t the ability to edit later wonderful).
And in case it wasn’t obvious in that post here is a close up with the feeding tube indicated.
The feeding tube just seems to hinge downwards from the cover/snout. Remarkable!
Cheers J.P.
It was a grey moist day - Roedd yn ddiwrnod llaith llwyd.
So time to look at some plants. Felly, amser i gwilio rhy planhigion.
Grug - ling, Seems to be the most common heather here.
Grug y mel - Bell heather.
Rhosyn gwyllt - Dog rose, now fruiting.
Troellig yr hydref - Autumn lady’s tresses.
For anyone wondering about the caterpillar, i can see evidence it has been eating but was quiet this afternoon, so i will take occasional sneak peak but basically leave it quiet if it is pupating.
A delicate time, but after a week may get a nice image of a cocoon.
Cheers J.P.
I’ve always preferred this more delicate version. Bell heather looks more ‘blousy’!! You are seeing all my favourite plants!! But there is a tiny little rose that grows in the sand behind the beach between Horton & Port Eynon that I always liked & haven’t seen elsewhere!!
p.s. Look forward to your cocoon, I haven;t kept one that way for years!!! (I was about 6, I think!!!)
I wonder if it’s the same as the one i saw in cornwall (just north of Bude) on the coast.!
Barf Yr hen Wr - Old man’s beard.
Ichnewmon - Yes i couldn’t resist another unknown (to me) Ichnumon.
Gem fforch arian - Silver y, gets it’s English name from the upside down letter (y) on it’s wing.
Defnyn dwr - water droplet. (trying to be clever and almost succeeding, reeds are reflected in the large droplet but lower down it’s confused) will try again sometime no doubt.
Cheers J.P.
