Nuts

The grey squirrels may have stripped the unripe nuts off our nut tree, but there were still some left on the trees down Horton Lane this morning. Maybe there is enough grub for the squirrels in the area at this time of year that they don't get around to stripping all the trees.

I am also wondering whether there is not something to eat inside these immature nuts. Nothing much for us, but maybe a little something if you are a squirrel. A lot of fruitless bother for them otherwise. Fruitless in the literal sense of the word for once.

A bit further along the road a resting cyclist was doing a bit of light grazing on the blackberries, with a fair number now looking black and ripe. So time to start the annual picking.