Just a few photos from my evening stroll at harvest time. Views over the Crouch Estuary and around little-known parts of Hockley. The Parish Council has worked hard to maintain our public footpaths.

Views from the cliffs at Leigh on Sea with oil refineries, Hadleigh Castle and Kent in the distance. Bracing walk and breezy today considering it’s June.

Sunshine would have been nice but…

Spring must be here. The daffodils are blooming, white blossom is prominent, the birds are singing, and the ice cream van is blaring out  “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic”.

A lovely sunny crisp start to the day.

Today's Spring evening looking North towards the tidal River Crouch from one of our many footpaths, which are currently very dusty due to the long dry spell.

The last two evenings on my favourite walk the Spring flowers are really prominent. The wood anemones carpet the ancient hornbeam woods, and along the edge the May flowers are there in all their glory. The big trees have hardly made an effort to come into leaf, not even the adjacent hornbeam.

The May is cause for conversation with a dog walker as we admire the show.

The cock robins sing their songs from the bare trees and the telegraph wires, staking out their territories. There is so much to see and hear and I feel sorry for the girl running with her head down, earphones in place, because she is missing the audio-visual show.