Beautiful views of some of Cumbria's mountains from the camp site. We took a walk down by the lake in the evening and were entertained by a flock of swallows feeding over the water. A "V" of geese flies high over the hills which are shrouded in clouds, wild garlic and ragged robin grow on the shore under the canopy of trees whose trunks are all covered in moss.
Ragged Robin ( lychnis flos-cuculi) . Bringing a splash of colour to marshes. wet meadows and damp woodland throughout Britain . Although the flowers are usually pink, white flowers can also be found. The plant has tall, slender flowering stems. Flowers from May - June. Like buttercups and marsh marigold they are also known as bachelor's buttons as country girls believed if they picked several flowers at the same time, giving each a name and put them in their apron, the first to flower would be that of their future husbands. Children called them thunder flowers as they believed picking them would make it thunder and lightening.
