Norfolk Gardens In Bloom

The new gardens and cycleway in the centre of Bradford today.  It has been unusually hot earlier in the week here in Bradford with temperatures up to around 30C, today has been much more pleasant with temperatures in the low 20s, more normal for the time of year.

Northcliffe Park Meadow - Wild Flowers

I must have driven past the gates of Northcliffe Park hundreds, if not thousands of times over the years, I decided to pull over and take a stroll the other day. The entrance to the park is on the very busy and very noisy Bradford to Keighley main road, but once I had passed through the gates and followed the uphill pathway the traffic noise soon disappeared and within ten minutes I came to a large area of undulating meadowland with extensive views over the Aire valley. It was a very hazy day so I don't have a picture of the view, but I managed to take a few pictures of the wild flowers.

Poppies - Cliffe Castle

I had a wander around the grounds of Cliffe Castle near Keighley at the weekend and came across a wild flower meadow. It was raining heavily at the time, not ideal conditions for taking photographs, but the colours of the flowers were quite striking, so here are some bedraggled looking poppies.