Tayview 5th September North Fife

Tayview 5th September North Fife,  Changeable weather as Atlantic low pressures drift by, low cloud with accompanied humidity, still warmish though.

Lamium album (white dead-nettle) North Fife

All over North Fife, trees, wild flowers are coming into leaf and flower. Spring... a burst of renewal, difficult not to feel good and enjoy the magnificence of it all.

White Dead-nettle, the nectar at the base of the tube-like flowers of Lamium album is only accessible to long-tongued insects such as bumble bees and mason bees. Smaller insects are often not heavy enough to open the flowers. The nettle-shaped leaves of Lamium album do not sting and are eaten by slugs and snails.
Lamium album got its common name ‘deadnettle’ because its leaves resemble those of the stinging nettle (Urtica dioica). Unlike the nettle, Lamium album does not have stinging hairs, and can be easily distinguished by its large white (or pink) flower (the flowers of Urtica dioica are tiny and greenish).
Medicinal Uses
Flowers boiled in water can be used as a traditional herbal remedy for catarrh and dropsy, and the roots boiled in wine as a remedy for kidney stones. The plant is also used as a herbal treatment for leucorrhoea, benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) and for gastrointestinal problems.

There is a wee lay-bye 2 miles East of Newburgh flanked by stands of this useful Herb.

Many people stop to enjoy the panoramic Views from Black Earnside.
For those who stop and admire the view, just behind them is a valuable medicine.

Tayview North Fife

May, mixed weather yielding changing light over the river Tay.
In the garden life continued.

Tayview 9th October 2012

Tayview 9th October North Fife. Same place as many times before but with totally different light. The night before there was an amazing solar storm giving rise to the so called northern lights, ( aurora borealis ) I looked and looked again through the night of the 9th, too much cloud, such is life, not everything works out. mmmmm Tonight might be different of course.

Tayview December 30th

Tayview December 30th. A good slow thaw over a few days with only light snow remaining on the fields and roadsides. What a relief. Long mat the warmth last.