Middlesex Filter Beds

Last Monday's cycling discovery, turning off the familiar path, was Middlesex Filter Beds (river water filtering slowly through sand). It's also a nature reserve, and where the path ends is a large sculpture, a sort of Stonehenge, by Paula Haughney, Nature Throne (1990), of which these are detail views -

Elsewhere, giant hogweed along the river, a swerving path -

Ah, the river....

On the walk to the station, the corner of Hollyhock Heaven is now dense with verbena -

 the hollyhocks gone to seed (and what wonderful seed) -

 Other seeds have flown -