Botanical Heaven (better picture resolution, the last was rubbish)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Sadeik

Hopefully these pictures will have a much higher resolution. You may have to wait a little before each photo becomes sharp and clear though.

Atrip to the local market was in order
Grim reaper
Sultan and his family
Brown bear front paw
Some vegetibles
A hard but rewarding life
Even some cheese
The setting sun
The arable land
Gyimes valley
An evening walk up to the high meadow
Lumber
Is that more fatty things Kevin?
Palinka break!
Mowing the fodder barley
Lunchtime
Sharpening the scythe blades
Some harness for sale
Mowing
Flowers galore
Monkshood
Cooking by starlight
Past the train station!
More palinka
Swallowtail butterfly
60 years shepherding
Lost
Job done onto the next one!
Palinka with spruce shoots in it
Nigel Adams mowing 33 acres
The wee little hoose
Last day arrives, some more palinka before work!
No mod cons here!
Mowing 33 acres!
The parking lot!
Forestry stallion
Dianthus
Globe flower
Kevin Austin doing his share
Land tenure
That’s it, finished mowing
Oh and the pigs
Hind bear foot track
What a view
Wow!
Richard’s nemesis
Up some steps
A good few Romanian acres mown
And finally to the place we were going to stay at
Looks like a musk beetle to me
Early morning sunshine
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The walk down

About Sadeik

You may ask why "Sadeik" well it means friend in arabic. Worked in Jordan a lot doing tree surgery you see. I have worked in forestry since I left school with a two years in Telecom. Went back to forestry and tree surgery as it may not have paid as much but was far more interesting and dangerous. Spent a lot of years mountaineering, caving and canoeing too. At 29 I went to Bangor University to study Forestry and soil science then did an MSc in Water engineering all very interesting. By a quirk of fate in 1995 ended up helping sort out the woodland and park at Wimpole, funny thing was then I only intended to stay six months or so, but 18 years later I'm still here learning all the time. That's the best bit, if I wasn't able to learn something new every year I would not have stayed and as you get older you realise that the grass is not so green in the next field after all. In fact my patch is getting greener while much of the rest is getting browner.
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5 Responses to Botanical Heaven (better picture resolution, the last was rubbish)

  1. Shane says:
    July 29, 2015 at 19:25

    Simon you have excelled yourself, these photos are incredible and worthy of an exhibition, well done. Shane

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  2. Graham Teece says:
    August 1, 2015 at 11:42

    Beautiful shots and beautiful people. Only spent two weeks there but makes me want to go back. Met some of the nicest farmers and woodmen there who had nothing material but did have a rich and contented life. Graham.

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  3. D. Greenwood says:
    August 7, 2015 at 11:49

    Amazing photos! I went to the same area (I think) in April and it was still wintry and snow capped, how amazing it looks when you went. Thanks so much for sharing.

    Daniel

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