psmv5: Trolley 880

The circuit started with a minor blockage in Station Approach. There did not seem to be any particular reason for it, so perhaps just one of those random bunching effects. You get them on motorways too.

Progressed through town, failing to find a trolley, and got to the corner of Hook Road and East Street, where the barley grass was looking well, getting ruffled from time to time by passing puffs of wind. It has, I believe, been mowed since.

The steel frame in what was the Majestic car park continues to make progress. Perhaps I will get to find out why the steel work right looks much sturdier than that left.

Took in the hollyhock, to check on the petals. Despite appearances, a bit of non-destructive poking around revealed five petals, with each petal springing from the gap between two points of the five pointed start at the base of the flower.

I would not usually take a trolley from the car park end of the passage by the side of the store, but on this occasion, given that the passage was somewhat obscured by the eco-works visible behind the trolley, I thought it was OK. The resident trolley man was unlikely to reach it any time soon. The rules committee allowed it, but hinted in their report that any future claims of the same sort might be disallowed.

Some large and striking leaves on the way to the footbridge. Some kind of magnolia?

However, Google Images seems fairly clear that it is a walnut (Juglans regia), which I did not think of. He adds: 'The leaves of the walnut tree have a distinctive aromatic scent when crushed, which is sometimes described as smelling like polish. This scent is believed to help repel insects' - which may help when I next take a look.

Then a second look as the possible aspen fluff noticed at reference 3. Poking it around suggested that it might well be large catkins of burst seed pods. A sort of fluffy version of popcorn.

Google turns up something similar, described as white poplar (Populus alba), to be found at reference 4. I think not my tree, but it is a relative and it does produce a lot of fluff..