Mortal Haze So this year’s crazy summer is now coming to an end, Despite sometimes beautiful weather allowing staycation to become the new trend. The nights are drawing in as daylight hours soon start to lack,
While all the schools and universities start a new norm regime as they have the green light to go back. Things are still far away from normal as everyone tries hard to fit in, It’s now a world that’s changed so much that no-ones really sure how to begin. Though the world will keep on turning and new procedures will be learned, Slowly etching new norms into our minds, getting a bit easier each day until hopefully we’ll all feel more reaffirmed.
It wont be classed as the new normal. as we’ll all take it in our stride, As the new generations will already be adapted, having lived with the regulations applied. The world will settle back to yet another type of phase, And we’ll all be adapted as we carry on through our mortal haze. Source: Andy—resident poet. How true this is. Things change so quickly but the younger generation will be more prepared to cope with any future changes that may occur having lived through this pandemic.
Have you seen this? I came across this on our hedge, I thought it was a clump of moss but then noticed it was attached to a wild rose stem. It’s the size of a tennis ball and is created by the larvae of a Gall wasp. We have five rose gall wasps in the UK. The one that causes this gall is very small and it doesn't sting. Each gall contains many larvae, each living in their own chamber inside the gall. The larvae create a chemical which makes the leaf or bud of the wild rose mutate into the ball you see in the photo. The gall reaches full size in late July to early August and doesn’t harm the plant. The larvae don’t leave until the following spring when they’re fully grown. I don’t know if you have seen one of these before, I certainly haven’t. Ken Care.
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