It was raining today. I waited patiently for the raining to stop so I could train my camera on the lily of the valley buds and wood sorrel, but of course it doesn’t always help that the raining stops. It was still overcast and the wood sorrel didn’t like it at all and stayed closed. But there are other things to find in the forest – I came across this huge black slug.

Everything is relative… slugs are supposed to be slow but when you’re working with a shallow depth of field, they move really fast!

Yesterday I mentioned the lesser butterfly orchids, today I had a look at a place where I know there’s always heath spotted orchids. Sure enough, found plenty of leaves, I didn’t even try to count them because they grow in a kind of a cluster so the leaves were all entangled. It provides some nice opportunities when they’re in bloom because you can fill the frame with the flowers. That would be in about one month…