Holmedale Junction. 3x2 feet plein air painting.

Traveled to Holmdale again, after sketching here yesterday. I moved closer to the signpost at the junction where the left turn goes to Holme on the Wolds and South Dalton, turning right heads for Kiplingcoates, where the worlds oldest horse race starts. Anyway, I digress, the farm on the top of the hill is mostly hidden from this viewpoint, however my main concern lay with capturing the cow parsley and to show how it is highlighted by the shaded hedge. As I painted the farmer appeared again and set about weeding out stray strands of barley from his wheat field. The hedges are flowering well and promise much more as the summer develops, the whites being replaced as the season progresses. I took George for another walk before setting up and was pleased to see a pair of buzzards and a pair of red kite. Small birds sang hidden in the hedges except for when they broke cover and flew across the road to disappear in the opposite hedge.