As I was leaving the farm crossing I noticed the Morning Glory flowers growing. I swapped lenses and took a couple of shots with the leaf showing. I must remeber to do that now when I take flower pix. Leaves can help to identify species in cases of uncertainty.

Went out to Yatton to get shots of the Stanier Black 5 hauling the Bristol to Par excursion. As they were stopping at Yatton Station to pick up passengers I went down to the farm crossing in Wemberham Lane. Noticed that the old cattle grid had been changed to a rubberised one. Much better and longer lasting I expect.

Thought they were a bit longer than they needed to be. 2 sections instead of 3 would be plenty and they would save 1 set up for each crossing they install. Looks very efficient and better than wooden strips. Dont know about water and ice in the winter though.

Decided to go out to Mud Lane to see if the Melilotus is still growing there on the railtrack parking space.

Found it had been completely grubbed out.

I took both the A350 and the A77 with me. Stopped to take some IR shots on the way back and also some pix of Meadow Sweet taking shots of the leaves too. 

The flower spray is so tightly packed it is hard to get a pic of a single flower. 

Hard to isolate it from the rest. However I persevered and this is the best I can do. Appart from cutting a single bloom from the spray and trying to take that this seed head shows nicely.                                                                                   

but when I tried to get a single flower they all merged into a tangled mass

Sorting through some original folders from when I first had the Sony SLT A77, and came upon some JPG's to file away from pix I had taken with the A55.

When I first saw this plant I thought 'Vetch' but it is Melilotus altissimus
It was growing along the side of the rail track at Mud Lane.
Culpeper names it as King's Claver says of it "Melliltot boiled in wine and applied modifies all hard tumours and inflammations, etc'. and adds; 'The flowers of Melliltot or Camomile is much used to be put together in clysters to expel wind and ease pains'  

Had a comment by Peter on Floral pix that this could be mistaken identity he suggests officinalis .I have checked on Google images but all the shots there are too small to get a macro of the flower.
I went out to Mud Lane rail crossing Thursday Morning but they had grubbed out the patch where these plants had been growing. Why did I not take pix of the leaves ? I didn't start doing that until later. 

As can be seen the flower is very similar to a vetch but on closer examination it has a difference.
I am almost sure it must be a mistake but according to Flickr the pic I uploaded there has had 1,443 views. Friday:- Looked at Flickr this morning and the views have gone up to over 5,000 something crazy is going on. 

Had to puzzle on this shot from Dial Hill Road. I had taken the Sigma 170-500mm lens to get some distant 'close-ups'.

I was finally able to find it on the sweep shot I had taken - Winash, to Waverly in Albert Road with the house in the left background being in Princes Road.

  

 After I was taking pix of Clevedon from Dial Hill Road I went back via Court Lane to see what was about on the moor. Noticed a lot of horse transport at the Hand so I looked down there later. There was nothing doing but there were literally hundreds of cyclists coming down Court Lane and going on toward Kenn Pier and, I think, through Nailsea?

I stopped and took a few shots; talked to one of the stewards and found it was the "Bristol's Biggest Bike-ride" week-end.

I passed him one of my cards and told him that anyone was at liberty to copy pix from Morguefile and use them for any purpose they wished.

When I was uploading to Morguefile I had a thought and posted one to David Bickell at at the North Somerset paper. I mentioned that I had to give up taking rugby pix because of standing problems. Has a very nice Email from him Monday morning to say he would use it if there was enough space. 

Went out early and took the A350 as well as the A77. Got some shots from Dial Hill Road but the stitched was not so successful. 

 I just did not realise just how much green Clevedon had through the town.

I took the Sigma 170 to 500mm and got some close shots of distant places too. Took a few with the Sony A77 while I was there. It was quite early on around 7.30 so I was able to park and spread myself a bit,  Went down to the Green beach afterwards, no problems with traffic. I took a few IR pix there  and I was back home by just after 8 o'clock.