• Rural view with field next to maize crop with trees and gate on rainy afternoon
  • Thistle seed covered in dewdrops caught on dock seeds
  • Seeded stems of hogweed and dock in a field with trees
  • A clump of thistledown covered in fine drops of water
  • Tall trees bordering a field of dying hogweed and dock plants
  • Red and green dying Dock leaf
  • Seed heads on tall hogweed in a field
  • Yellow Ragwort flowers and downy seed heads
  • Seed head on Hogweed in a field

August has not finished yet but it has been dismal and damp for much of the month. There are places around my village where it seems as if autumn is well under way before summer has finished. The start of the path to Charminster passes through a rough field before disappearing up the slope among the trees. In the drizzle and mist of a sunless afternoon last week, unkempt and dying grasses, fading Ragwort flowers, rusty-seeded Docks, and Hogweed skeletons were covered in dewdrops and clinging wet thistledown.