Flowers and growing chicks

The incredibly warm weather has really brought on the flowers in the garden and in the countryside.   The red hot pokers, I only bought a few weeks ago and it's lovely to see them in the border.

I have delphiniums just outside my sitting room window and like the budded stem below after a shower of rain.

The two clematis both grow up the same leg of my pergola.  The red one is Westenplatt which I planted last year.  I love the deep red of it.

The chicken and chicks are still in their little run in the rabbit park.  They are growing fast and now have the beginnings of their proper plumage.

In the lane outside my house there are baby horse chestnuts on the tree and my neighbours wonderful irises, which grow in the verges around their house.

On the way to bowls this morning the steam was coming off the fields as the day warmed up after a damp night.  My team won the game this morning, but it was a very close thing which always makes for a good time.

On the way home, I parked the car to have a closer look at the river weed which is in flower at the moment and looks amazing.

There were groups of wild white Marguerites along the banks and verges and I love the yellow centre with its swirls and patterns.  There were lots of insects on the blooms, but I'm not sure what they are.

And, last of all for today was a lovely patch of poppies in one of the fields I passed on the way back into St Nicolas du Pelem.  They're such ephemeral flowers and so lovely.