Early this morning I went for a walk with Belinda. We took the car out of Shepton and ended up at the picturesque village of Mells. It is a lovely village, full of beautiful historic stone buildings. We started by walking through the churchyard and then onto public footpaths. The church has a majestic venue of ancient yew trees (see top left pic) and around the village there were loads of flowers, including one of my favourites, Hollyhocks. They come in such wonderful colours - see bottom middle and middle right pics above...
A large part of our walk consisted of circumnavigating an extremely large field of maize which was in places as tall as me and is still growing!
There were some interesting wildflowers, including several varieties of thistles, so we had to be careful where we walked! It was a strange day for weather, cloudy, but extremely warm and humid. Apparently, we are in for a mini heatwave during the next few days with hot air coming over from France, so if there is walking to be done it is best to get out early!
