Pete's Walks - Ox-eye Daisy
Photo taken 22/05/07 near Woodcote, on Day 19 of my second Chiltern Way walk
A common and easily recognisable flower, I saw it many times in the grassier places I visited on my second Chiltern Way walk. Apparently it was the Ancient Greeks who thought it looked like the eyes of their oxen - what with Homer describing the sea as 'Wine-Red', I'm beginning to wonder what drugs they were on ...
Photo taken 6/06/07between Little Hampden and Cobblers Hill, Bucks, on Day 24 of my second Chiltern Way walk. I somehow managed to get the toe of my left boot into the shot!