Down to the town again before breakfast, light better than yesterday, but would be better later in the day.

Went to the Bosco Quarto and the Carbonara Valley in the morning

Road back to Monte Sant'Angelo in the afternoon.

The Castle

Drawbridge

Seseli montanum polyphyllum

Plants growing in the castle walls

Random roof

The Sanctuary

Chimney pots and tiles

Bodged job

Long view

Flax austriacum

Ophrys

Vicia melanops

The best paeonia mascula that we could find

Green lizard

Adonis annua

Morel

Orchis pauciflora

Saxifraga

Viola reichenbachiana

Farmhouse

Anemone nemorosa

Myosotis sylvaica

Corydalis cava

Panorama from the tree tops to my feet

Narcissus poeticus

Polygonatum multiflorum

Pulmonaria valarsae

Fungus

Orchis seed pods

Viola riviniana

Corydalis cava

Bellevalia romana

Orchis pauciflora

Orchis pauciflora

Narcissus poeticus

Euphorbia myrsinites

Iris lutescens among the rocks

Pale muscari

Dactylorhiza sambucina

Violets

Not a very fertile soil

Grape hyacinths and anchusa cretica close up on the right

Quercus pubescens

Valerian

Iris rock garden

Iris lutescens

Carpet of grape hyacinths

More pictures of Dactylorhiza sambucina - such a lovely flower

Dactylorhiza sambucina

Centaurea triumphetti

A blackcap, a fire-crest and a cuckoo sang at our picnic site backed up by many others.   I took some wobbly videos of the woodland and the birdsong, but cannot get them to open on the web.